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By Pierre Tristam, About.com Guide to Middle East Issues

Wordless Wednesday: When Words, Like Policy, Fail

Wednesday December 17, 2008
Bush and the shoe
(Abid Katib/Getty Images)

In Iraq and the Middle East, Muntader al-Zaidi is a folk hero. In this case, President Bush gets the shoe in the Gaza Strip, too, where Palestinians never warmed to Bush delegating the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to anyone but him for eight years.

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