Setback for Blair&#39;s Push for Mideast Peace
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s Mideast peace push suffered a setback on the eve of his visit when Israel said it would not attend the Mideast conference he&#39;s proposing
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Downing Street moved last night to play down expectations of a dramatic initiative in the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians when Tony Blair meets George Bush at the White House this evening.
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Tony Blair has redoubled his commitment to finding a resolution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestine. The prime minister told the Commons on Wednesday that bringing peace to the region was the &quot;key&quot; to tackling international terrorism.
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Tentative hopes for a revived peace process in the Israel-Palestinian conflict were shattered last night by the collapse of Ariel Sharon&#39;s parliamentary majority and the prospect
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Tony Blair says he came to push Mideast peace efforts ahead. But Britain's beleaguered prime minister may be hoping his success eases anger back home over his close ties with the U.S., animosity that led to a rebellion in his own Labour Party.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s hope of annexing West Bank settlements and keeping all of Jerusalem under a final peace deal is a disaster that could torpedo efforts to restart peace talks, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged  world leaders on Wednesday to be bolder in supporting leading  moderates against "forces of extremism" in Iran and elsewhere  and in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives back from his diplomatic mission to the Middle East to try to resurrect the peace process.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting to win back political support by recalibrating his policy in the Middle East, but it is likely to prove too late to save his job.
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LONDONâBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair has flatly acknowledged that his main argument for taking a reluctant country to war - Iraq&#39;s alleged weapons of mass destruction â-as turned out to be wrong.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, raising the level of international efforts to revive Middle East peacemaking following Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, right, with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, at a Jerusalem press conference. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived back from his diplomatic mission to the Middle East to try to resurrect the peace process. Mr Blair held talks with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He&#39;s hoping to get both sides to participate in a Mideast conference in London.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for an initiative to jumpstart the dormant Middle East peace process as he offered support for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas over his controversial call for early elections.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suffered a major setback to his proposed withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, after his Likud Party voted against forming a new coalition government to push the plan forward.
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Tony Blair is holding talks with his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon in an attempt to get the Mid East peace process back on track.