Israel's Olmert balks at full settlement halt
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert balked on Thursday at a total freeze in settlement activity, a key demand of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for progress in U.S.-backed peace talks.
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Israeli settlers in the West Bank have blocked an Israeli army attempt to dismantle a Jewish settler outpost near the city of Nablus.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will not let his country's blockade of Gaza turn into a humanitarian crisis.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel's three-week-old offensive in Lebanon will stop only after a robust international peacekeeping force is in place in southern Lebanon.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks on Sunday that yielded no immediate sign of progress toward peace.
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Â· Funds to boost support for president in West Bank  Â· Olmert offers concessions but 'no breakthrough'
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Israel's attorney general has temporarily halted the government's plan to cut back on electricity to the Gaza Strip, demanding more work to prevent humanitarian harm
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has spurned an appeal from his defense minister to halt excavation work near Jerusalem's most important holy site, the Haaretz daily said on Thursday.
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Less than a year after withdrawing from Gaza, Israel has discovered it cannot wash its hands of the teeming coastal strip, raising questions about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert&#039;s contentious plan to stage a similar pullout from large parts of the West Bank.
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The Palestinian prime minister said Friday that militants were prepared to stop firing rockets at Israel if it would halt all military action in Palestinian territories. Israel rejected the offer, saying it would respond positively only to a total truce.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood would not result in a major peace breakthrough as he sought to head off a revolt by right-wing coalition partners.
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Ehud Olmert's apparent admission that Israel has nukes calls into question the country's longtime vow of silence.
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Israel will allow construction within built up areas of existing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, but will not expand beyond those areas, Israeli officials said on Monday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert prepared for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, a day after saying an upcoming Mideast peace conference would not result in a final deal with the Palestinians and may not take place at all
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood would not yield a peace breakthrough, seeking to head off a revolt by rightist coalition partners.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to walk away from his first visit to the United States without getting the Bush administration to put its heft behind Olmert&#039;s sweeping West Bank pullback plan.
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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.