Nothing abhors a vacuum more than military conflict, and the inability, or unwillingness, of the outgoing Bush administration to provide clear leadership over the deepening crisis in Gaza could very easily result in a serious escalation of hostilities.
So far as the Israeli-Palestinian issue is concerned, President George W. Bush is ending his eight-year tenure at the White House very much as he began it, by studiously avoiding any political investment in a dispute that has provided his predecessors with scant reward. True, Mr Bush did, at an early stage in his presidency, unveil the "road map" for a lasting agreement, and his administration later took the historic step of committing Washington to a two-state solution.
But apart from his fruitless appeals for the combatants to observe the conditions of the negotiating framework, whether it was calling on Israel to halt settlement construction or on the Palestinians to cease attacks on Israel, Mr Bush's default position has invariably been to side with Israel the moment trouble flared.
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