While a good deal of advance coverage of the Bush-Sharon summit in Crawford, Texas, focuses on US-Israeli tension over plans to expand Maale Adumim, the New York Times reports that the controversy may not be as big as people think:
But the Maale Adumim issue is something of a red herring, American and Israeli officials agree. There are no plans to break ground for new units for at least three years, and the existing Maale Adumim, a community of some 30,000 people, will almost surely be kept by Israel, with American support, in return for modest land transfers elsewhere.
