Palestinian state shelved &#39;with US blessing&#39;
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s chief of staff has said the aim of Israel&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan is to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely.
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President George W. Bush has all but abandoned his goal of Palestinian statehood next year, opting instead to spend the next four years trying to help &quot;a truly free state develop&quot; alongside Israel.
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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 US is gearing up for possible re-engagement in an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has been on hold for most of the last four years because of a Palestinian terrorism war and Israeli countermeasures.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The rival Hamas and Fatah parties froze talks yesterday on forming a Palestinian unity government, Fatah officials said. This was a new setback in efforts to form a more moderate coalition acceptable to the West.
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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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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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The United States yesterday lifted its embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, joining the European Union and other countries in a swift demonstration of support for embattled President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the anti-Israeli militant group Hamas.
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A top aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted as saying yesterday that Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is intended to block Palestinian statehood indefinitely and that the policy had US backing.
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The United States has vetoed an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for an immediate halt to all Israeli military operations in northern Gaza and withdrawal of forces, saying it was &quot;lopsided and unbalanced&quot; and &quot;encouraged terrorists.
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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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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Israel is expected to promise Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, today that it will take steps to facilitate Palestinian elections planned for January, including a cutback of its military presence in the West Bank.
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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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&quot;The &#39;Disengagement Plan&#39; explicitly confirms the Israeli government intentions regarding the unlawful annexation of West Bank land..&quot;. By the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights. The announcement of a unilateral
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a rare window of opportunity to build a democratic Palestinian state that could live side by side in peace with Israel.
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RAMALLAH: Palestinians yesterday accused the United States of destroying hopes of negotiations with Israel for a Palestinian state, after the US signalled it could accept some growth of settlements in the West Bank.