Israel rebuffs call for talks on core issues
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Israel on Tuesday ruled out negotiations "at this stage" on the borders of a future Palestinian state, rebuffing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and casting doubt on a U.S. push to tackle the issue.
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Israel rejected a Syrian offer for an unconditional resumption of peace talks on Wednesday,dismissing it as &quot;nothing new&quot;.
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Israel's PM reiterates his country's position of nuclear weapons ambiguity amid a row over an apparent slip-up.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says his country will not take part in an expected Middle East conference.
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Israeli and Palestinian peace talks bogged down in disagreement on Monday for a second time after the Palestinians ruled out addressing core issues until Israel agreed to stop settlement building near Jerusalem.
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Brushing aside mounting pressures for a nationwide referendum on his disengagement plan, a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ruled out any such possibility along with calls for new elections.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday rejected calls from Jewish settlers to hold a nationwide referendum on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, escalating a bitter dispute with former allies who accuse him of leading Israel toward civil war.
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The planned coalition between Israel&#39;s two main political parties has been delayed by a disagreement in talks, the BBC reported.
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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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Interim Palestinian leaders have rejected a new and softer position by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to hold talks on peace in the region.
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Israel's foreign minister said on   Friday it was time the Jewish state talked to the Palestinians,   adding no conditions should be put on meeting President Mahmoud   Abbas.
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Bush's call for renewed talks between Israelis and Palestinians leaves out the parties who could give lasting peace a chance
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Israeli prime minister rules out ceasefire saying his military is fighting 'true war' with militants
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Hamas ruled out any truce with Israel Sunday and repeated its desire to destroy the Jewish state, rejecting what had appeared to be more conciliatory comments by one of the Islamic militant group&#39;s leaders.
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Egypt has played down its offer to talk to Israel about reviving Israeli-Syria peace talks, which broke down four years ago. After talks in the Egyptian city of Sharm al-Shaikh on Tuesday between President
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Israel dismisses reports from Egypt that a peace plan has been agreed with the Palestinians as premature.
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Israel's opposition Labor Party  leader called Thursday for early elections, effectively calling  off talks to enter the government after Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon's Likud party barred him from any negotiations.