President Bush put the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land Friday with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home."What's on my mind is peace," Bush told a group of Israeli youth leaders gathered for a short talk with him at the Bible Lands Museum, dedicated to the history of civilizations in the Bible. "I believe it's possible. I know it will happen when young people put their minds together."
The discussion in the grass under an olive tree in the museum's garden was Bush's last stop of a two-day visit to Israel to mark its 60th anniversary. The young people who spoke to the president and first lady Laura Bush before the media were ushered out seemed eager for an end to the long fighting between Israel and the Palestinians.
But Bush's second trip to Israel in four months ended without progress.
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