Sharon, Abbas Pledge to Halt Mideast Violence
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas declared Tuesday they would stop all military or violent activity against each other, pledging to break the four-year cycle of violence and get peace talks back on track.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has pledged in a series of understandings reached with Egypt to stop most offensive military action against the Palestinians if all Palestinian militant factions agree to a cease-fire, senior officials in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said yesterday.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza and halt bloodshed that has killed 23 Palestinians in the last three days.
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Palestinian  rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza will stop, and Israel will withdraw its forces, senior officials say.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pledged Thursday to push ahead with his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip despite a stinging public rebuke from his Likud Party.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon said on Thursday conditions were right for a "historic breakthrough" on Middle East peace after measures taken by new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to bring calm.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet to try to halt two weeks of violence that has seen southern Israel battered by rockets and Gaza pummeled by airstrikes.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call Sunday by the PLO leadership for a halt to militant violence, hours before Palestinians claimed Israeli tank fire had killed a 28-year-old man and his mother in the Gaza Strip.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza, and the Palestinian leadership called for a  halt to attacks on Israelis.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on  Wednesday promised steps to halt the use of illegal arms to  stem chaos in Palestinian areas and ensure calm ahead of a Jan.  9 election to choose Yasser Arafat's successor.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli and Palestinian  leaders proclaimed a formal end to more than four years of  bloodshed at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has sounded a note of optimism about peace prospects in the coming year provided Palestinians stop violence against Israel.
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Senior officials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed on Saturday to pull their gunmen off the streets of Gaza and halt bloodshed which has killed 23 Palestinians in the last three days.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who wants to dismantle some settlements and withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, warned Sunday of a crackdown because some of his opponents on the religious right are threatening violence.
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Liaison over the Gaza pullout is possible if the new Palestinian leaders curb attacks on Israelis, Ariel Sharon says.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, setting  a test for a new Palestinian leadership, said it could show its  desire for peace by ending incitement against Israel even  before any crackdown on militants.
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MAHMOUD Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, has called for an end to armed attacks against Israeli targets in an attempt to mark out a new strategy for peace in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.