Poll in PA: Majority of Palestinians oppose terror attacks
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A poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center indicates a dramatic decline in Palestinian support for acts of violence targeting Israelis.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first municipal elections under Israeli occupation on  Thursday in a test of grassroots support for President Mahmoud  Abbas and rival Islamist groups.
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Some 600 prominent Palestinians, including top officials, cabinet ministers, legislators, intellectuals and poets, have called for an end to armed attacks on Israel and urged the Palestinian Authority to push for democratic reforms.
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - New Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces Monday to prevent attacks  on Israel by militants defying his calls for calm.
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In the biggest test of his brief tenure, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas came to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hoping to persuade militants to halt attacks on Israel. But in a show of defiance, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a settler road in Gaza, killing an Israeli security agent and wounding seven other Israelis.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - A top Palestinian body backed President Mahmoud Abbas's motion for early elections in the Palestinian Authority on Thursday despite rival Hamas's rejection of the plan.
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The Israeli people, by a two-thirds majority, support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to close Israeli settlements in Gaza and the northeast corner of the West Bank.
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip  - Palestinians voted on  Thursday in the first municipal elections in the Gaza Strip in  decades, a test of strength between new President Mahmoud Abbas  and the militant Hamas group.
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expected to be a test of strength between the dominant Fatah movement and Islamists sworn to destroying Israel. the elections. A similar poll in the Gaza Strip was delayed because violence prevented registration.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the favourite to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader, has called on his people to stop fighting Israel. Mr Abbas said Palestinians had a legitimate right &quot;to express their rejection of the occupation by popular and social means&quot;.
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RABAT, Morocco -- Senior Arab officials attending a US- sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected yesterday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of US ...
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Palestinian police thwarted an attack Sunday on a security commander &amp;#151; the second ally of President Mahmoud Abbas targeted in two days &amp;#151; as the rivalry between his moderate Fatah Party and the Hamas militant group threatened to explode.
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Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.
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Hamas - regarded as a terror group by Israel and the West â-ade a strong showing in West Bank local elections â - first time the Islamic militant group competed at the polls.
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More than half of Poles oppose the location of part of a U.S. anti-missile shield on Polish soil, a poll showed on Tuesday, a day after the Polish president said the project was a foregone conclusion.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in  their first-ever municipal elections on Thursday in a test of  support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups  ahead of Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territory.