That's the first question President George Bush will ask PA President Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting on Thursday.

Bush made the statement at a press conference yesterday in Israel. The President also reminded the world that Iran was still a threat, despite the conclusions reached by the National Intelligence Estimate which stated that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program back in 2003:

Visiting US President George Bush affirmed western concerns on Wednesday that Iran is a threat to world peace, despite the release of his country's National Intelligence Estimate report in November.

"The NIE report may have sent a signal to some that the US doesn't think that Iran is a threat. I have said that Iran was a threat, Iran is a threat and Iran will be a threat if the international community doesn't come together to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon," Bush said in a joint press conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shortly after a meeting between the two.

He said that sanctions would force the Iranian people to choose whether to back a nuclear program.