Bush Contrasts Arab, Israeli Paths.

Washington - President Bush's just-completed trip to the Middle East might be summed up as a tale of two speeches.

Authoritarian Arab governments are not fond of being lectured to about democracy and women's rights, since it threatens their power, notes Gerald Hyman, president of the Hills Program on Governance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In their eyes, the US is in fact hesitant about full democracy in the region, since it might hand more power to Hamas and other groups hostile to the US and Israel.

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