Tom DeLay, the House majority leader and an evangelical Christian, is to visit Israel, Jordan and Iraq next week, bringing his message of grave doubt that the Middle East is ready for a Palestinian state, The New York Times reported Thursday. "I'm sure there are some in the administration who are smarter than me, but I can't imagine in the very near future that a Palestinian state could ever happen," he said in an interview Thursday. "I can't imagine this president supporting a state of terrorists, a sovereign state of terrorists," he said. "You'd have to change almost an entire...