'Clever' Hamas strategy must be matched: Blair
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Middle East envoy Tony Blair told The Times newspaper that the international community needed to match Hamas's "clever strategy" to secure a peace deal, in an interview published Saturday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a US television interview, said Palestinians need to build democratic institutions in order to have a &quot;viable&quot; Palestinian state whose creation would take away a cause on which extremists &quot;prey.&quot;
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President Bush said he intends to pursue the establishment of an independent and democratic Palestinian state during his second term, and will develop a strategy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help ...
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Britain cannot defeat terrorism unless moderate Muslims do more to confront militancy in their own communities, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday.
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Middle East envoy Tony Blair says a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians by 2009 is possible.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking for the first time in the Mideast as its peace envoy, urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday to take advantage of a new "sense of possibility" in the region.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday proposed an international conference next year focused on implementing reforms in the Palestinian administration.
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World powers named Tony Blair as their Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, handing the outgoing British prime minister a daunting new challenge on a day Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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If the proposal goes forward, Tony Blair would represent the âquartetâ of world powers in talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Israel is prepared to back a Middle East conference convened by Tony Blair early next year despite having expressed fears that the British plans were over-ambitious and designed
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LISBON -- Tony Blair waded headlong into the murky world of Middle East peacemaking yesterday, dismissing concerns that he would fail like so many before him and announcing that he would travel to the region.
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BRIGHTON, England  - Britain's Tony Blair faces  one of the trickiest speeches of his career on Tuesday, seeking  to win back his Labour Party after rifts over Iraq and spell  out new policies to set up next year's re-election bid.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday he would push on with plans for early elections despite bitter opposition from the Hamas government.
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Israel's Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Monday a "combination of steps" could topple the Gaza Strip's Hamas leaders within months.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Tuesday he was trying to engage with Britain&#039;s Muslim  community but Islamic extremism could not be defeated by the  government alone.
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If the proposal goes forward, Tony Blair would represent the âquartetâ in talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
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True to his conviction that reactivating Israeli-Palestinian talks is the world&#39;s most pressing political challenge, Tony Blair yesterday offered a bridge back to that goal.