Bush Israel Visit 2008

    • January 8, 2008: Two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel
    • Demonstrations were seen in Gaza the day before Bush's arrival
    • The visit was Bush first as president
    • Bush's previous visit to Israel came in 1998 as Governor of Texas
  • President George W. Bush visits Israel in the first part of a brief tour of several counties in the Middle East. The visit is intended to reinvigorate the peace process initiated at the summit in Annapolis.
  • Nuclear Iran

    U.S spy angecies declared with "high confidence", that Iran had ceased its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Israeli officials believed that Iran resumed the program in 2005. Bush used the trip to reassure Israel and moderate Arab states, that his administration still views Iran as a nuclear threat.

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