Palestinians warn settlement plan will cloud talks
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Israel's plan to build houses on occupied land near Jerusalem will cloud renewed peace talks, the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday, the day before an international aid conference opens in Paris.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas abruptly put off an address he was due to give on Thursday about a new unity government and an official said on Wednesday the delay was due to a dispute with Hamas.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday there would be no major breakthroughs at US-sponsored peace talks this fall, prompting a Palestinian threat to skip the gathering. "If Olmert says there'll just be a declaration, it's not worth going," said Nimr Hamad, an adviser to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet for another session of peace negotiations in Jerusalem on Tuesday but conflicting statements by both parties have clouded the state of progress in the talks.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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Israel intends to build a new  settlement in the West Bank that could take in settlers  uprooted from Gaza, officials said on Tuesday, drawing swift  protest from Palestinians who fear losing land for a state they  seek.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators  hammering out terms for a peace summit agreed on Sunday to  postpone resolving a dispute on releasing Palestinian prisoners  that had clouded hope of a breakthrough.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators hammering out terms for a peace summit agreed on Sunday to postpone resolving a dispute on releasing Palestinian prisoners that had clouded hope of a breakthrough.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cautioned on Monday that much had yet to be decided about holding a conference the United States hopes may relaunch Middle East peace talks in the coming months.
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Israel is prepared to discuss "in general terms" core issues, including borders, in meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after insisting for months that they not be included, officials said on Monday.
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The leaders of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank urged their followers Monday to resist a government plan to withdraw from parts of the occupied territories
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A group of Palestinian politicians and intellectuals urges officials not to meet UK PM Tony Blair during an expected trip to the region.
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinians accused the United States on Sunday of destroying hopes of negotiations with Israel for a Palestinian state, after Washington signalled it could accept some growth of settlements in the West Bank.
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WITHDRAWAL THREATENED: Settlement leaders in Gaza and the West Bank urge followers to resist withdrawal from parts of the occupied territories.
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President Mahmoud Abbas said he hoped talks between Palestinian factions to begin Sunday would resolve critical disagreements and make his plan to call a referendum recognizing Israel&#039;s right to exist unnecessary.