12月13日，美国前总统克林顿在阿拉伯联合酋长国的迪拜举行的“阿拉伯战略论坛”会议开幕式上发表讲话，呼吁中东冲突各方继续朝着全面公正解决中东问题的方向努力，最终实现以色列获得安全和巴勒斯坦建国的目标。克林顿表示，美国应该在中东和平进程中发挥更积极的作用，并认为他的继任者布什在解决巴以冲突的问题上的成功率为50%。外电报道如下：Former US president Bill Clinton said he believed his successor George W. Bush would work more actively¹ to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and gave him a "50-50" chance of success.

"The United States should be more active in the search for Middle East peace. It think it (the Bush administration) will be," Clinton told the opening of a three-day Arab Strategy Forum².

"I think there is a 50-50 chance of success," said Clinton, one of a host of world figures taking part in the gathering³ entitled "The Arab World in 2020" in Dubai, one of the seven members of the United Arab Emirates.

Clinton, who almost pulled off a peace agreement at the presidential retreat of Camp David in July 2000, said he believed his failure largely explained Bush's reluctance⁴ to get involved during his first term in office.

Pull off表示“努力实现，赢得，完成”，例如：He decided⁵ to pull off the plan in the new term.（他决定在新学期里努力完成这个计划。）