Dear friends:
 
You cannot trust media reports on anything, but if the below is true it is another ominous sign.  It also confirms reports of James Baker’s alleged anti-Israel feelings.  Let us hope the President rejects such Israeli exclusion and the cozying up to terrorist regimes. It is not a good sign.
 
Jim
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Emphasis supplied below.

Issue Date: www.insightmag.com - Dec. 5-11, 2006, Posted On: 12/5/2006
 
Baker wants Israel excluded from regional conference
 
The White House has been examining a proposal by James Baker to launch a Middle East peace effort without Israel.
 
The peace effort would begin with a U.S.-organized conference, dubbed Madrid-2, and contain such U.S. adversaries as Iran and Syria. Officials said Madrid-2 would be promoted as a forum to discuss Iraq's future, but actually focus on Arab demands for Israel to withdraw from territories captured in the 1967 war. They said Israel would not be invited to the conference.
 
“As Baker sees this, the conference would provide a unique opportunity for the United States to strike a deal without Jewish pressure,” an official said. “This has become the most hottest proposal examined by the foreign policy people over the last month.”
 
Officials said Mr. Baker's proposal, reflected in the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, has been supported by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. The most controversial element in the proposal, they said, was Mr. Baker's recommendation for the United States to woo Iran and Syria…..
 
Officials said the Baker proposal to exclude Israel from a Middle East peace conference garnered support in the wake of Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 25. They said Mr. Cheney spent most of his meetings listening to Saudi warnings that Israel, rather than Iran, is the leading cause of instability in the Middle East.
 
“He [Cheney] didn't even get the opportunity to seriously discuss the purpose of his visit­that the Saudis help the Iraqi government and persuade the Sunnis to stop their attacks,” another official familiar with Mr. Cheney’s visit said. “Instead, the Saudis kept saying that they wanted a U.S. initiative to stop the Israelis’ attack in Gaza and Cheney just agreed.”  (What about the terrorists continued rocket attacks on Israel???  Oh, that's okay, I guess.)