Palestinian Unity Government Complicates Rice's Mideast Trip
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the formation of a Palestinian unity government that includes the Hamas militant group complicates her high-profile peace mission this weekend, strongly suggesting that the new government falls short of standards that would allow a resumption...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that a "two-state solution" in the Middle East was in jeopardy and described a narrow window of opportunity to push Israel and the Palestinians toward peace.
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BERLIN, Feb. 20 -- Over Christmas vacation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took home a three-foot stack of reports written by the State Department historian on previous efforts by the United States to forge Middle East peace. Rice had read memoirs by her predecessors, but as she embarked on her own effort to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she decided she needed to study a day-by-day diplomatic narrative of  what had gone wrong in the past....
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall will confront "critical issues" in the Israel-Palestine conflict
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JERICHO, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to bolster peace efforts with Israel after a surprise ceasefire deal in Gaza.
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Arguments continued over a new Palestinian unity government as the secretary of state struggled to hold together her plan.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday for talks overshadowed by a Palestinian unity deal that has cast a new cloud over prospects for peacemaking.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan &#151; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw herself at two intractable Mideast problems &#151; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq &#151; during a brief trip to the region, and encountered the reality that the U.S. has few options other than patience.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will take a trip to the West Bank to show support for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Oct. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an emotional visit Wednesday to the church revered as marking the birthplace of Jesus, before hearing from prominent Palestinians that failure of her new peace initiative could worsen their conflict with Israel.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas has postponed a tour of Muslim countries because of Israeli travel restrictions, his office said Monday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought to lower expectations ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Monday complicated by a deal to form a Palestinian unity government.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with a vague promise to meet again and little sign of progress on reviving peace moves.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert indicated yesterday there would be no major breakthroughs at US-sponsored peace talks this fall, prompting a Palestinian threat to skip the gathering. "If Olmert says there'll just be a declaration, it's not worth going," said Nimr Hamad, an adviser to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is traveling to the ...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hopes to drive the Israelis and Palestinians closer to peace in Jerusalem on Sunday on her first visit as secretary of state to the heart of their conflict.
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Hoping to turn the page on six years of stalled Mideast negotiations, the U.S. instead found itself boxed in Sunday by a characteristically complex political impasse involving ally Israel and the Palestinians.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a senior Palestinian official said.