Mideast peacemakers to assess strategy
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World powers have largely abandoned hope that Hamas radicals will drop anti-Israel positions that have riven the Palestinian leadership and led to a cutoff of direct international aid. Now diplomats are looking for a new approach.
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The Iraq Study Group this week will advise President Bush to begin the biggest foreign policy course correction of his presidency. The group will call for rekindling peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis and holding an international conference that would lead to direct talks with Iran and Syria. Will Bush listen, or will stubbornness prevail?
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BERLIN, Feb. 21 -- European and U.S. officials on Wednesday sought to play down emerging differences over the new Palestinian unity government during a meeting of high-level group that monitors efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try this week to cajole Israelis and Palestinians to take bold steps ahead of a U.S. peace conference this year but experts predict an uphill battle.
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Israeli officials hope to reach agreement with the Palestinians on a âdeclaration of principlesâ for peace by the end of the year, but not on a detailed peace treaty.
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Middle East envoy Tony Blair is  developing a plan that would spell out practical steps that  Israeli, Palestinian and business leaders would gradually take  to try to boost peace prospects, officials said on Wednesday.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet Thursday to try to resolve a dispute over Israeli building in east Jerusalem that is paralyzing efforts to renew peace negotiations, officials said.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet meet former prime minister Tony Blair here Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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The Quartet of Middle East peace   mediators were prepared to endorse Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas' effort to form a national unity government on   Wednesday although its platform is still unclear, diplomats   said.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators planned to meet on Monday for a second round of U.S.-backed peace talks bogged down by disputes over Jewish settlement building near Jerusalem.
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Top Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, under U.S. pressure to start peace talks, met on Monday on a plan to begin tackling some of the thorniest issues after a month-long impasse over Jewish settlements.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plan to meet on Thursday to try to salvage peace talks bogged down by a row over Jewish settlements, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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JERUSALEM -- Former US envoys say that the passing of Yasser Arafat would open up new opportunities for Mideast peace, especially if new, pragmatic Palestinian leaders emerge.
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Senior Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will open talks on Monday on the most sensitive issues such as the future of Jerusalem as part of a U.S.-led push for a peace deal this year, officials said.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will try  to end four years of bloodshed and take a step back toward  negotiations at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.
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International Mideast mediators will meet with key Arab nations next month to promote new efforts to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, the U.N.'s top envoy to the region said Wednesday.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a month ago appears to have created a new atmosphere for possible renewal of peace efforts in the Middle East.