Israeli, Palestinian teams meet ahead of Bush visit
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Top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, under U.S. pressure to start peace talks, met on Monday on a plan to begin tackling some of the thorniest issues after a month-long impasse over Jewish settlements.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President George W. Bush faces a balancing act in West Bank talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the second day of a Middle East peace mission laden with skepticism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet on Tuesday in a last-minute attempt to get stalled peace talks going before a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush.
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President Bush will huddle with top diplomats and military advisers Monday on the inaugural day of a Mideast truce, with a list of challenges spreading far beyond the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.
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Israelis and Palestinians are to discuss core issues in the conflict on Monday, the Palestinian leader says.
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President Bush offered Monday to meet at the White House with newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, putting out a welcome mat that was never there for Yasser Arafat.
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Ahead of President Bush's trip to the Middle East, Israel intensifies operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Israeli leaders said Friday that they hoped to take action after President Bushâs visit to the region next week.
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JERUSALEM -- Aides are planning a long-awaited summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, which could revive peace talks, officials from both sides said yesterday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Abbas and Olmert last week to push forward such dialogue, stalled by regional violence, the election of a Hamas-led government, and the ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks on Tuesday to prepare for a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference that Abbas cautioned could turn out to be pointless.
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Hamas' bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip will dominate talks in Washington between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with the two leaders coordinating a strategy to freeze out Hamas in Gaza and strengthen Fatah in the West Bank.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Tuesday, on the eve of a visit by President George W. Bush, to begin peace talks on the thorniest issues despite major differences over Jewish settlement construction near Jerusalem.
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Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad meets Israel's foreign minister, ahead of an historic Arab League visit to Israel.
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The US secretary of state is due to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders as part of a new diplomatic effort.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday pledged to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel tightened the diplomatic and economic embargo on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.
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President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought today to strengthen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his battle against the radical Islamic organization Hamas, and they vowed to push for the revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   will outline his plan for the West Bank's future to a wary   President Bush on Tuesday, in talks also expected to focus on   the Iranian nuclear crisis.