Olmert rules out truce with Hamas
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert rejects calls to consider a truce with Hamas unless it recognises Israel and renounces violence.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned a call by his defense minister to consider halting excavations near Jerusalem's most sacred Islamic shrine that have angered Muslims, an official said on Thursday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he opposed peace talks with Syria while it continued to host Palestinian militant groups in Damascus.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has barred new construction work, building planning and occupancy tenders at West Bank settlements without his approval, a move meant to bolster U.S.-backed peace talks, documents show.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday he and President Bush agreed to shun a Palestinian unity government unless it accepted international demands on policy toward Israel.
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Hamas promised on Saturday to maintain a de facto truce and, in a major policy change, not to retaliate immediately for any Israeli violence while it weighs Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ceasefire with Israel.
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Israel on Tuesday ruled out holding Mideast peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas once he forms a coalition with Hamas militants, saying the new unity government must give in to international demands to recognize Israel's right to exist.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on   Monday he had put his plan for an Israeli pullback from parts   of the occupied West Bank on hold following a war in which Arab   militants rained rockets on the Jewish state.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he will not revive peace talks with Syria as long as Palestinian militant groups operate in Damascus.
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Hamas kept up rocket fire into Israel on Monday in defiance of a ceasefire call by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli threats to escalate military strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he disagreed with a U.S. advisory group's linkage of efforts to stabilize Iraq with new moves to end Israel's conflict with its neighbors.
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Israel dismisses reports from Egypt that a peace plan has been agreed with the Palestinians as premature.
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Hamas ruled out any truce with Israel  Sunday and repeated its desire to destroy the Jewish state,  rejecting what had appeared to be more conciliatory comments by  one of the Islamic militant group's leaders.
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Hamas hardened its stance on Saturday after a new barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed five militants, saying it would not consider a truce and calling for more attacks on Israel.
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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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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is withholding his approval to wrap up the military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, despite the Israel Defense Forces&#39; recommendation to withdraw.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out dialogue with Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip and said the army would continue attacks on militants firing cross-border rockets into Israel.