(San Francisco Chronicle) President Bush's meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, on Wednesday, to be held in Aqaba, Jordan, may signal a challenge by both Israel and the U.S. to Egypt's long-standing role as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "The marginalization of Egypt has been in the cards for several years," said Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv. "There's great disappointment in Israel. Egypt is seen as not living up to its peace obligations."
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