Competing visions for Palestinians
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While the Israelis and US want to isolate Hamas, some Arab states see need for Palestinian unity.
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Four years ago, the Palestinians launched a war against Israel. It was designed to extract additional concessions from Ehud Barak&#39;s government, just after being offered all of Gaza and more than 90% of the West Bank, including parts of Jerusalem.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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As Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat clung to life Thursday, many in the West began to hope -- not for his death, but for the possibility that peace might follow it.
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Long locked in struggle, Sharon and Arafat both confront fights for survival that could reshape the Middle East
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ABU DIS, West Bank: Palestinians and Israelis rallied under the shadows of the West Bank barrier on Friday, vowing to follow in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi by pursuing a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict.
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Palestinians ready to compromise will claim to be completing Arafat's journey. So will those wanting to fight on
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Why the American President's agenda for the region doesn't square with the perspectives of the area's Arab populace
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TYRE, Lebanon: Many Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon say they would rather see imprisoned West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti succeed Yasser Arafat than the movement&#39;s official candidate Mahmoud Abbas.
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Divided more than ever after Hamas's armed takeover of Gaza, Palestinians are watching their dream of statehood turn into even more of a nightmare to achieve.
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One month after Yasser Arafat's death, realignments on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli divide are raising fragile hopes for a mutual retreat from four years of fighting.
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It started as a well-planned settling of scores between rival political factions. But by the end of last week Palestinians seemed on the brink of civil war as two conflicting governments vowed to defeat each other.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/12/04) - Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Mahmoud Abbas - the favored candidate to succeed late Palestinian Authority president Yassir Arafat, has made a bid for peace with Israel, calling on Palestinian militant
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Existence of the Palestinian Naval Police represents the struggle over PA security forces.
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JERUSALEM -- Within days of the Israeli-Palestinian summit conference last week in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh, the euphoric visions of peace generated by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas were dissipating amid Qassam rockets, clan killings, and warnings that only actions, not words, could improve matters.
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The US And Israel Are pinning their hopes on former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat as leader of the Palestinians.