THIS WEEK ON THE SUNDAY CHAT SHOWS

ABC / This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Will not air this weekend due to ABC Sports' coverage of the British Open golf tournament.

CBS / Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer: The Middle East crisis will be discussed with Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., his Syrian counterpart Ambassador Dr. Imad Moustapha, and Douglas Ignatius of the Washington Post.

CNN / Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer: The Middle East crissi will also be discussed here with John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Israeli Tourism Minister Isaac Herzog, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee members Richard Lugar (R - IN/Committee Chairman) and Christopher Dodd (D - CT), with House Permanant Select Intellegence Committee members Representatives Peter Hoekstra (R - MI) and Jane Harman (D - CA).

FOX / Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace: Ambassador Bolton will be here as well to chat about possible diplomatic solutions to the current Middle Eastern crisis. And House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R - IL) will discuss GOP issues going into the midterm election season.

NBC / Meet the Press with Tim Russert: White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten will discuss the Middle East, Iraq, Bush's veto this week of a bill on stem cell research, and the president's agenda for the rest of this year. Also, author Tom Ricks on his new book on Iraq, "Fiasco".

Syndicated / The Chris Matthews Show: The Middle East Crisis, President Bush's stem cell veto, and the Connecticut U.S. Senate race are the items to be bantered about with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Joe Klein of Time magazine, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, and the Financial Times' Chrystia Freeland.

Bay News 9 / Political Connections: Congressman Adam H. Putnam (R - Bartow) will be this week's guest.