"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world"

This quote by Barack Obama speaks to the Bush Administration's absence of involvement in helping Israel and Palestine accomplish peace. Obama thinks that this lack of involvement has been detrimental to both the United States' friendship with Israel and its standing in the Arab world. He believes that the United States need to have been more actively associated with assisting to produce a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. By refraining from doing so, the Bush Administration has caused a rift between the United States and both Israel and the Arab world. Obama believes that the United States must have been more involved in the peace procedure in order to maintain strong relationships with both sides.