U.S., Israel plan to ease sanctions to boost Abbas
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The United States, Israel and European states are prepared to ease a ban on aid to the Palestinian government that President Mahmoud Abbas is forming in the West Bank after sacking Hamas, officials said on Friday.
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The top American diplomat in Jerusalem said Sunday the United States will fully support Mahmoud Abbas' new government, but acknowledged that the moderate president had lost his influence over Gaza, home to more than one-third of Palestinians.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to stop hunting 180 wanted Fatah militants who pledge to end attacks against the Jewish state, as part of a U.S.-led effort to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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JERUSALEM -- With the two Palestinian territories increasingly isolated from each other by a week of fighting between rival factions, Israel and the United States seemed to agree on a policy to treat them as separate entities to boost Fatah in the West Bank and squeeze Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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The United States sought on Thursday to bolster support for an aid blockade against the Palestinian Authority and win backing for U.S. efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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The United States and Israel are considering rapidly easing sanctions in the occupied West Bank to try to bolster an emergency government being formed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Western and Israeli officials said on Friday.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel has agreed to lift travel restrictions in parts of the West Bank in coming weeks, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday, in what would be the strongest signal yet to Palestinians that a cease-fire with Israel is beginning to pay off.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas struck a deal Monday to share power with the militant Islamic Hamas, an accord that would restore international aid and could lead to contacts with Israel.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Friday to begin taking reciprocal steps under a long-stalled peace plan to try to narrow gaps ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood.
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Palestinian leaders outlined plans Sunday to persuade visiting American envoys to pressure Israel into removing troops from urban areas to ensure smooth elections to replace Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will meet President Bush in New York on   Wednesday, Palestinian officials said, acknowledging U.S.   opposition to guidelines set for a unity government with Hamas.
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Israel promised to ease conditions in the West Bank and Gaza so that Palestinians can vote for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
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Israel and the Palestinians ended a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged on Tuesday to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel sought to tighten the screws on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel agreed yesterday to release desperately needed funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a day before the moderate leader planned to meet the heads of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan in a summit meant to bolster him in his struggle with Hamas.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Friday to take steps previously agreed under a long-stalled peace plan to try to narrow differences ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on establishing a Palestinian state.