Olmert: No cease-fire with Hamas
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out cease-fire talks with Hamas, calling Israel's battle against the Islamic militant group that controls the Gaza Strip a "true war."
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was prepared for peace negotiations with Syria under the right conditions but refused to answer questions Monday about a widely reported Israeli air attack in northern Syria.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks on Sunday that yielded no immediate sign of progress toward peace.
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GAZA CITY -- The Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad said yesterday that they would not attack Israeli targets, but they refrained from officially joining a Palestinian cease-fire with Israel agreed upon at the summit meeting last week in Egypt.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will not let his country's blockade of Gaza turn into a humanitarian crisis.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel would target all those responsible for cross-border rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, amid calls by top ministers to assassinate Hamas political leaders.
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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian prime minister said yesterday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday that Palestinian factions had agreed to halt rocket fire if Israel reciprocates by stopping its military offensives in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israelâs battle against the militant group that controls Gaza a âtrue war.â
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected   on Monday international criticism of Israel's offensive in Gaza   and demands by militants to free Palestinian prisoners in   exchange for an abducted Israeli soldier.
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Palestinian officials angrily denied on Monday a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that they had agreed to delay talks on the fate of Jerusalem until the last phase of peace negotiations.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview with an Egyptian newspaper. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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Hamas may be willing to agree to a cease-fire with Israel for one year, a senior official of the militant group said in an interview published on Saturday. Hamas said it had not fired any rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip for days.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel wouldn&#039;t balk at &quot;extreme action&quot; to bring home a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
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Furious over the killing of two Israelis hiking in the West Bank, Israel's prime minister said Sunday that no peace will come until Palestinians crack down on militants, a declaration that clouds a coming visit by President Bush.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert rejects calls to consider a truce with Hamas unless it recognises Israel as a state.
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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.