She wants to negotiate with Palestinians. He doesn't. She wants a Pentagon withdrawal plan from Iraq within 60 days of taking office. He wants open-ended wars ion Iraq and Afghanistan, so long as the countries are unstable. Both would be willing to bomb Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. The Democrats' Hillary Rodham Clinton and the GOP's Rudolph Giuliani are shaping their foreign policy, which is mostly their Middle East policy, as they battle for their parties' nomination for the 2008 presidency.

Over the next several weeks I'll be posting round-ups of all the major candidates' positions on the Middle East, the single-most overriding issue of the 2008 election. Here, to start, is Hillary Clinton on the Middle East, and Rudy Giuliani on the Middle East.