Abbas aide slams Israel on Gaza before meeting
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A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel's plan to cut power supplies to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip shortly before Abbas was to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday.
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Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat blames Israel for stepping up attacks ahead of the US president's visit.
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Israeli and Palestinian security officials meet in an effort to avert Israel's threat to launch a military offensive in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are considering meeting ahead of a visit by President George W. Bush, an Israeli government official said on Sunday.
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Palestinian group Hamas pours scorn on former UK PM Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy.
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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned on Tuesday the Israeli airstrike on a summer training camp of the radical group of Hamas in eastern Gaza City midnight Monday
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his first speech since Islamist Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday there could be no reconciliation with a group he described as "traitors".
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Friday in a new effort to narrow differences on making peace before a U.S.-hosted conference due later this year.
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Mahmoud Abbas has said before that the Palestinians were wrong to use violence against Israel in the &quot;current intifada.&quot; But this time, he said it as a candidate to lead the Palestinians
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The ruling Hamas movement   and President Mahmoud Abbas's office accused each other on   Sunday of trying to derail a planned Palestinian unity   government that officials hope will lift Western sanctions.
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A prominent Hamas official tried to open discussions with Israel to ease confrontation in the Gaza Strip but was rebuffed, a Palestinian official familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday.
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PALESTINIAN presidential frontrunner Mahmoud Abbas rejected an offer by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today to coordinate Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year.
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Mahmoud Abbas extended his hand in peace to Israel as he was sworn in as the new Palestinian leader Saturday, but the Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and 46 election officials resigned over alleged ballot irregularities, crushing optimism for an early resumption of the peace process.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks  on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached  border with Egypt.
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JERUSALEM -- Mahmoud Abbas, the leading Palestinian presidential candidate, described Israel yesterday as ''the Zionist enemy" in reaction to the shelling by Israeli troops of a town in the Gaza Strip -- while he was campaigning in Gaza -- that left seven people dead, including an 11-year-old, a 12-year-old, and three teenagers.
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The meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to take place in the Palestinian territories for the first time, aides said.
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Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian president on Saturday, but his call for a cease-fire was overshadowed as Israel killed eight Palestinians in Gaza and cut ties with him over a deadly militant attack.