Olmert says ready to free Palestinian prisoners
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SDE BOKER, Israel  - Israel will be prepared to release many Palestinian prisoners, including long-serving inmates, in return for a soldier militants seized last June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a "serious release" of thousands of security detainees.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was ready to meet Israeli Prime   Minister Ehud Olmert as soon as possible.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to free up to  200 Palestinian prisoners to show goodwill after Egypt freed a  convicted Israeli spy and ahead of elections for Yasser  Arafat's successor, officials said.
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Israel has agreed to free 170 Palestinian prisoners, Israel Radio said on Sunday.
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Israel's cabinet agreed on Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners in the latest of a series of attempts to strengthen Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas's seizure of the Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel wouldn&#039;t balk at &quot;extreme action&quot; to bring home a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
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Israel has agreed to free 170  Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Egypt for freeing a  convicted Israeli spy and to show goodwill ahead of a  Palestinian election, officials said on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that Israel would not free the number of Palestinian militants demanded by the captors of an Israeli soldier abducted a year ago.
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Israel on Sunday signaled it will consider freeing some Palestinian prisoners involved in attacks on Israelis, defusing a crisis with the Palestinian Authority ahead of a historic Mideast summit.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a &quot;serious release&quot; of thousands of security detainees.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, a day after saying an upcoming Mideast peace conference would not result in a final deal with the Palestinians and may not take place at all
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   rejected on Monday an ultimatum by Palestinian militants, who   abducted an Israeli soldier, for Israel to release Palestinian   prisoners.
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Israeli Cabinet ministers on Tuesday approved a list of 250 Palestinians prisoners slated to be released this week in a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, an official said.
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JERUSALEM, July 16 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting here Monday that Israel would proceed with the promised release of 250 Palestinian prisoners later this week, but neither side reported tangible progress in restarting a...
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JERUSALEM Israel on Sunday agreed to release 170 Palestinian prisoners in what Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described as a goodwill offering to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
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Israel intends to release 900  Palestinian prisoners as part of a package of goodwill measures  it plans to present at a summit with new Palestinian leader  Mahmoud Abbas next week, cabinet sources said Thursday.