Israel's Olmert rejects Syria conditions for talks
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Syria was setting an "impossible threshold" for peace talks by demanding Israel commit to withdraw fully from the occupied Golan Heights before negotiations resume.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned a call to consider halting excavation work near Jerusalem's most sensitive shrine, which has angered Muslims and threatened a Gaza ceasefire deal.
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TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he was willing to meet Syrian President Bashar Assad under &quot;certain conditions,&quot; an offer which Damascus swiftly turned down as unacceptable.
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Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks, without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying, in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad who proposed third-party involvement.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried to defuse growing public anger Monday over his handling of the war against Hezbollah, promising to rebuild rocket-scarred border areas but rejecting peace talks with Syria, a key supporter of the Lebanese guerrillas.
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President Shimon Peres on Thursday called on Syria to open direct peace talks with Israel, urging Damascus to drop its demand that negotiations take place through mediators.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood would not yield a peace breakthrough, seeking to head off a revolt by rightist coalition partners.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood would not result in a major peace breakthrough as he sought to head off a revolt by right-wing coalition partners.
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Bloomberg - July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Syria rejects President George W. Bush&#39;s proposal for an international conference on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict because it wouldn&#39;t seek a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement, Syria&#39;s United Nations envoy said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force takes up positions along the Syrian border and at Beirut's airport.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has barred new construction work, building planning and occupancy tenders at West Bank settlements without his approval, a move meant to bolster U.S.-backed peace talks, documents show.
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Israeli media are calling it a "nuclear slip" of the tongue. Aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert deny any change in policy.
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Israel should take up a Syrian offer to renew peace talks, Israeli President Moshe Katsav said Thursday, rejecting claims by Israeli officials that the gesture is not significant.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  rejected reported peace overtures by Syria on Wednesday, saying  it had to crack down on Islamic militant groups under its  control before negotiations that stalled in 2000 could resume.
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The Palestinian administration demanded that the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks be &quot;unconditional&quot; and therefore refused the conditions of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to resume them.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected reported peace overtures by Syria on Wednesday, saying it had to crack down on Islamic militant groups under its control before negotiations that stalled in 2000 could resume.