Egypt moves to stem Palestinian tide
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Egyptian police attempt to reseal border with Gaza as Palestinians continue to pour through smashed wall
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Egypt will send its security delegation back to Gaza "when things calm down" and then resume its mediation between Palestinian factions, President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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Mahmoud Abbasâs declaration was both a challenge to the Hamas movement and a risky effort to break a political stalemate that could backfire.
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Their current bid to broker Palestinian peace is part of a larger effort to counter Iran's influence, analysts say.
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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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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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Analysis: Israel wants Egypt to reseal the border. But to do that Egypt needs agreement with both Hamas and President Abbas -- and the Palestinians aren't talking to each other
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian forces began closing the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stemming the flow of Palestinians across the frontier breached by Hamas Islamists last month, witnesses said.
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The chaotic scenes on the Gaza-Egypt border are forcing Israel, Egypt and the international community to rethink a two-year policy of trying to weaken Gaza's Hamas rulers by keeping the territory sealed.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum.
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Israeli officials see opportunity to turn Gaza over to Egypt to provide services.
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Israel accused Egypt on Thursday of undercutting Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects by letting about 2,200 Palestinian pilgrims return to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip without Israeli screening.
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Egypt has warned Palestinians against trying to break through its resealed Gaza border about two weeks after Hamas militants blew it open to defy an Israeli-led blockade.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak engaged Persian Gulf leaders yesterday in an effort to build momentum toward peace in the Middle East, calling for support of the new Palestinian leadership and talking up the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
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Egypt invites the Palestinian group Hamas to attend talks in Cairo "promptly" on resolving the border crisis.
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Egypt's official news agency said  Tuesday significant progress had been made in international  efforts to end Israeli-Palestinian violence, but both sides to  the conflict termed talk of a deal premature.
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The death of Yasser Arafat has brought a flurry of diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East by Arab, Palestinian and Israeli leaders aiming to revive long-stalled peace negotiations on several fronts.