Palestinians: No delay over Jerusalem
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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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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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JERUSALEM â-here has been increased security here in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, but so far, it has been quiet. The entire Middle East is getting ready for a new era, a Middle East without Yasser Arafat.
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Hamas militants say there will be no let-up in efforts to fire missiles at Israel, despite a major Israeli military operation.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Tuesday, on the eve of a visit by President George W. Bush, to get peace talks moving despite major differences over Jewish settlement construction near Jerusalem.
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Israel is determined to keep Yasser Arafat out of Jerusalem even in death, with one Cabinet minister saying Friday that the holy city is reserved for the burial of Jewish kings, "not Arab terrorists."
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Envoys for international powers trying to mediate a peace in the Middle East agreed on Friday to talk in Jerusalem next week, a day after the first meeting in two months between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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JERUSALEM - Israel tightened security around Arab East Jerusalem and stopped thousands of West Bank Palestinians from praying at the revered Al-Aqsa mosque on the first Friday of Ramadan, but no violence was reported.
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Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar has said that his movement will not halt suicide attacks against Israel, and denied reports that Hamas was willing to join the Palestinian Authority.
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The Episcopal bishop of Jerusalem says Israel may soon long for the days when Yasser Arafat was alive. The Right Reverend Riah Abu el-Assal told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin during
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Hamas militants say there will be no let-up in efforts to fire missiles at Israel, despite a big Israeli army operation.
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Palestinian leaders have confirmed that they will fly to Paris to see Yasser Arafat, despite the ailing President&#39;s wife accusing them of trying to steal his powers.
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JERUSALEM -- Election front-runner Mahmoud Abbas marked the end of the 40-day Muslim mourning period for Yasser Arafat by asserting his commitment to a peace deal that would create a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas vowed yesterday never to give up the late Yasser Arafat's bedrock demand that Israel recognize a &quot;right of return&quot; of Palestinian refugees.
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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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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders hold talks in Jerusalem designed to bolster the Palestinian government.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal could not be rushed, as Palestinians must first elect a president and both sides must begin to carry out the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.