Ankara, Turkey ? Vice President Dick Cheney ended his Mideast trip Wednesday and returned to Washington.

Cheney probably will try again as a peacemaker, returning for a meeting in Egypt with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat  assuming U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni concludes that the conditions are right. The meeting could come as early as Monday, a U.S. official said.

Cheney was to report to Bush today at a breakfast meeting also attended by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, the president’s national security adviser.