Israel Palestinian State Shelved with U.S. Blessing
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Israel's plan to withdraw from some  occupied land aims to rule out a Palestinian state  indefinitely, with full U.S. approval, Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon's chief of staff said on Wednesday.
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Palestinian factions agreed to stop violence and Israel said it would halt its military operations, but it was not clear if the deal would take effect and hold.
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Israel transferred to the Palestinians on Sunday a portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.
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NEW YORK - At the request of the US administration, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to consider removing Israeli security forces from Palestinian population areas to facilitate Palestinian elections in the next two months, the New York
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JERUSALEM - A top aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying Wednesday that Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is intended to block Palestinian statehood indefinitely and claimed the policy had U.S. backing...
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JERUSALEM -- With the two Palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of fighting between rival factions, Israel and the United States seemed to agree on a policy to treat them as separate entities to boost Fatah in the West Bank and squeeze Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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The Bush administration has withheld comment on Israel&#39;s approval of 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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Israel's unilateral plan to evacuate some occupied land and keep the rest will indefinitely prevent a Palestinian state with Washington's blessing, a senior Israeli official said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Israel has decided to resume diplomatic contacts with the Palestinians after cutting them off for almost two weeks over a bombing in the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli official said Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM -- The United States, Israel, and European states are prepared to ease a ban on aid to the Palestinian government that President Mahmoud Abbas is forming in the West Bank after sacking Hamas, officials said yesterday.
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Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory. The move complicates a U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders decided  in the absence of President Yasser Arafat on Sunday to carry  out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza,  a government minister said.
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The United States may be willing   to accept some easing of the West's boycott of the Palestinian   Authority as President Mahmoud Abbas tries to form a   national-unity government, diplomats said.
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Israel announced on Friday it was sharply reducing its military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in response to efforts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end attacks on Israelis.
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JERUSALEM - The significance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip is to put the establishment of a Palestinian state on hold indefinitely, and do so with the permission of the United States, a senior Sharon aide said in a
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Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, won an assurance from Israel yesterday that it would ease its grip on the occupied territories and allow greater freedom of movement before the Palestinian presidential election in January.
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The State Department brushed aside statements by the Palestinian leader condemning bloody suicide bombings in southern Israel and said Hamas must be put out of business.