In 2005, a Mideast window of moderation
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A look ahead at issues and events likely to make headlines in the coming year.
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Convinced that 2005 will be a year of great peace opportunities, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is throwing his considerable political weight behind a coalition with the Labor Party.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas have resumed security talks after a long break, both sides said yesterday, a new sign of cooperation between Israel and Palestinian moderates since the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
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Israel yesterday lifted a threat to limit the number of Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount for Ramadan rites that begin today. Israeli authorities had warned they may clamp restrictions
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WASHINGTON - Under US encouragement and, in some cases, pressure, Israel has quietly taken steps aimed at strengthening the standing of Palestinian moderates and has agreed to consider others now after the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat
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The death of Yasser Arafat a major figure in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would open a window for the violence in that region to decrease, a local Middle East expert said.
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The events of the past few days in the Gaza Strip underscore a trend that began some time ago. The fifth year of the conflict, which begins this week, is, at least in the meantime, the year of disengagement.
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The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported that Great Britain would provide support to the US in its endeavor to create an international peace conference for the Middle East in early, 2005.
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WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 14: Under American encouragement and, in some cases, pressure, Israel has quietly taken steps aimed at strengthening the standing of Palestinian moderates and has agreed to consider others now that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has
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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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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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The political tectonic plates under the Middle East may have at last begun to shift. Some Arab leaders, facing four more years of George W. Bush, seem to have understood the policy message he sent from Canada
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TONY EASTLEY: Since the death last month of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat there&#39;s been a relative lull in violence against Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
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[The following is a talk given at the Euro/Palestine concert in Paris, France on November 6, 2004.]. We gather here at difficult times, when it seems that the Palestinian cause has been almost eliminated from the international agenda.
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Overall Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the northern West Bank in 2005, without coordination with the Palestinians. Israel contends the current Palestinian leadership is not a partner for peace talks. Twenty-one settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank will be removed by September 2005, followed by a pullout of Israeli troops.
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In the five years since the September 11   attacks, U.S. intervention abroad has fed the extremism it   seeks to destroy and cemented the rise of political Islam as   the ideology of choice for millions in the Middle East, experts   say.
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JERUSALEM - Many Middle East observers believe the word opportunity describes the situation in the region after the death of Yasser Arafat.