Israel Pressures Hamas Ahead of Riceâs Arrival
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Israel declared Gaza âhostile territory,â opening the way for further restrictions on the supply of vital goods.
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Israel on Tuesday warmly welcomed the naming of Condoleezza Rice as America&#39;s top diplomat, but Palestinians were wary, saying the new Bush administration must put more energy into the quest for Middle East peace.
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As President Bush presses Iraq to step up security efforts, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is turning her attention to a second U.S. front in the Middle East: cementing a long-stalled peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Israel sought on Monday to shore up European support for a U.S.-backed strategy of isolating Hamas in Gaza while freeing funds for President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet in the occupied West Bank.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a rare three-way summit.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched a new push to revive peace moves between Israel and the Palestinians with the United States under pressure from Arab allies to make it a priority.
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Russia urged ending the isolation of the anti-Israeli militant group Hamas and including Syria in Middle East peace talks, exposing fissures in a high-level diplomatic group that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gathered yesterday in Washington to validate her new effort to end the...
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As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the battle-scarred Middle East, she has tried to walk delicately between supporting the democratic government of Lebanon while not dictating to Israel how it should handle its own security.
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Israeli opposition to the prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan raises safety concerns.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to broaden their fragile Gaza ceasefire as Arab nations urged her to press Israel to ease restrictions in the occupied West Bank.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will test the waters for a renewed push on Arab-Israeli peace when she visits the Middle East this week despite what analysts regard as huge obstacles.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will launch a new effort to forge a Palestinian state by seeking an endorsement today from a rare Washington meeting of a high-level group that monitors Middle East peace.
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Israel's Security Cabinet declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday in order to cut off power and fuel supplies to the coastal strip, a move likely to cloud Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit on a peacemaking mission.
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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The Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister are to meet early next week in Jerusalem ahead of an expected visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and key meetings of international mediators, officials said Saturday.
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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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JERUSALEM, Oct. 4 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem Wednesday morning under pressure from Arab allies to jumpstart the Middle East peace process -- even as a Hamas official was gunned down by masked assailants and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas declared that...