Official Seeks Larger West Bank Pullout
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JERUSALEM Dec 30, 2004 - 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's unilateral plan to evacuate  some occupied land and keep the rest will indefinitely prevent  a Palestinian state with Washington's blessing, a senior  Israeli official said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s deputy repeated a call, rejected in the past by the Israeli prime minister, for a wider withdrawal from the West Bank after a planned pullout from parts of the occupied Palestinian territory and Gaza.
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Israel said ahead of a visit by  Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday that it would consider  any formal request to pull troops away from West Bank cities to  facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Israel has plans to build a new  settlement in the West Bank that could take in settlers  uprooted from Gaza, officials said Tuesday, drawing protest  from Palestinians who fear losing land for a state they seek.
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Israel came under new pressure Friday to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 barrier after the attorney general warned of international isolation and the Supreme Court ordered the government to explain its position in light of
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seeks parliamentary approval on Monday for his plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip, the first time Israel would uproot Jewish settlements on land Palestinians want for a state.
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The Israeli government is under pressure from the supreme court and the attorney general to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 frontier.
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JERUSALEM -- President Mahmoud Abbas has asked Israel for permission to bring Palestinian forces based in Jordan to the West Bank to try to shore up his control after Hamas's Gaza takeover, Israeli officials said yesterday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians urged Israel  Friday to expand a prisoner release to ensure the success of a  summit both sides hope will result in a formal declaration to  end violence.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Sunday called on the world to press Israel to stop building settlements in the West Bank, a day before he was to leave for Cairo for talks about the future of the Gaza Strip.
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The U.S. security coordinator in the Palestinian territories wants five new Palestinian battalions deployed across the West Bank in an effort to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to a published report Thursday.
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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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A senior Palestinian official said here on Monday that the Palestinian leadership wanted to have further coordination and consultations with Syria and Lebanon.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is considering a plan to stop pursuing scores of Fatah militants and give Palestinians wider security control over West Bank enclaves to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas, officials and diplomats said yesterday.
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The leaders of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank urged their followers yesterday to resist a government plan to withdraw from parts of the occupied territories, edging closer to open revolt against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to
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JERUSALEM: A Jewish settler leader urged followers on Monday to resist the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, signalling a shift toward revolt after settlers lost hope of stopping the pullback by political means.