Egypt-Syria call for Israeli pullout
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DAMASCUS: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al Assad linked UN calls for Syrian troops to leave Lebanon to their own demands for Israeli troops to leave Arab lands.
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Syria convenes a conference of rejectionists demanding an end to peace talks with Israel
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Israel should withdraw from more of the West Bank after a small-scale pullback set for 2005, Israel&#39;s vice premier said in an interview published Thursday -- one of the first indications of Israel&#39;s long-term intentions.
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Israel will have to follow up next year&#39;s pullout from the Gaza Strip with a much larger withdrawal from the occupied West Bank , according to Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Germany and France have issued a joint call to Syria to &quot;stop supporting forces that seek to destabilise Lebanon and the region&quot;.
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It is time for Syria to quit Lebanon,  a senior State Department official said after talks with Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad Saturday.
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Israel is stepping up its rhetoric against neighboring Syria, with senior officials publicly blaming Damascus for Tuesday&#39;s suicide bus bombings in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
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Gulf Arab ministers urged Syria on Monday to respect a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a rare public intervention in the affairs of a fellow Arab country.
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Israel&#39;s threats against Syria after the Beersheba suicide bombings would &quot;exacerbate the deteriorating situation in the region,&quot; the Syrian foreign minister said yesterday.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls for Israel to lift its   blockade of Lebanon swiftly and to withdraw fully from the   country as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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A group of prominent Israeli hard-liners urged soldiers Thursday to disobey orders to dismantle Jewish settlements, widening the bitter divisions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli leaders warned Syria on Wednesday that it bears the blame for a double suicide bombing by Hamas militants because it harbors the group's leadership, and they hinted at possible retaliation.    In a first response to Tuesday's attack that killed 16 people in a southern Israeli city, Israeli troops blew up the home of one of the bombers and isolated the West Bank city of Hebron, where the attackers lived...
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak telephoned his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, and discussed with him a host of regional issues, including Israeli threats against Syria and how to deal with them on the international stage, the official MENA agency said.
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Israel said before a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Egypt called on Israel on Tuesday to  investigate charges that Israeli troops led by Israel's current  infrastructure minister may have killed Egyptian prisoners of  war in 1967.
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Egypt's foreign minister and Israel's prime minister on Wednesday discussed the terms of a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, including the deployment of hundreds of Egyptian troops to ensure calm along the volatile Egypt-Gaza border.
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Syria on Monday accused Israel  of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract  attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains  its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war.