Israel, Palestinians seek elusive peace
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In the afterglow of a high-profile peace conference, Israeli and Palestinian leaders will try in the coming year to resolve issues that have defied solutions for decades.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, a step Palestinians said on Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggled on Monday to get U.S.-sponsored peace talks, stalled by disputes over Jewish settlements, on course before a visit by President George W. Bush.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to meet to try to ease peace problems ahead of the US president's key tour.
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The Israelis and Palestinians return once more to the negotiating table -- and stumble over the same old problems
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators opened a second round of statehood talks on Monday but the Palestinians ruled out addressing substantive issues until Israel agreed to stop settlement building near Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM, March 11 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met here Sunday for the second time in less than a month, but made little progress on reviving peace talks, exchanging prisoners or resolving differences over the nascent Palestinian power-sharing government....
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to overcome disputes over Jewish settlements that have paralyzed U.S.-backed peace talks.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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It was unclear how detailed the talks between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators took on the most contentious issues in their bitter conflict on Monday under a US-backed effort to hammer out a final peace deal by the end of the year
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Israel and the Palestinians opened their most serious peace talks in seven years on Monday, urged by President George W. Bush to reach a deal within a year despite deep public skepticism.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 -- Extending a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip to the far larger West Bank proved elusive Sunday as Israel's security cabinet decided against doing so and the governing Hamas movement withdrew from negotiations on the matter.
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JERUSALEM -- With the two Palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of fighting between rival factions, Israel and the United States seemed to agree on a policy to treat them as separate entities to boost Fatah in the West Bank and squeeze Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel and the Palestinians opened on Monday their most serious peace talks in seven years despite differences over what each side aims to achieve.
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Israelis and Palestinians are in the midst of rapidly evolving events that could lead to a period of instability in both camps, but could also usher in the changes necessary to resume peace negotiations.