Israeli peace overture follows Gaza destruction
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By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. KHAN YUNIS REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - The sights, sounds, and emotions in Gaza Sunday were those of war, not of the turning point toward peace
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Olmert says schism after Hamas takeover in Gaza presents 'opportunity' to empower moderates.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators achieved significant progress Wednesday toward ending violence and resuming peace talks, completing a plan for deploying Palestinian forces in the southern Gaza Strip and aiming for a summit within two weeks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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A small Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip has become the first to accept an Israeli government deal to leave the occupied territory and move within Israel&#39;s borders, handing
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 - A small Jewish settlement tucked in the corner of the Gaza Strip has become the first one in which all the residents have agreed to leave under the Israeli government's Gaza withdrawal plan, an Israeli official said today.
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The Palestinian prime minister calls for new peace efforts with Israel, a day after Yasser Arafat's burial.
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DECLARING the occupation of one nation by another to be &quot;a horrible disaster for both peoples&quot;, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday the coming year offered a historic opportunity for peace with the Palestinians.
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After a recent surge of violence in and around the Gaza Strip, Israel and the Palestinians moved gingerly today toward reinstituting an often-broken cease-fire.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he hoped his summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday would project a new spirit of peace after Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip in a civil war.
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The White House praised the Israeli parliament&#39;s approval of removing settlements from Gaza and part of the West Bank as a step forward in peacemaking with the Palestinians.
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Palestinians celebrated on Friday a coalition deal between Hamas and Fatah to end factional warfare, but Israel insisted the Islamist Hamas group must recognize the Jewish state and international reaction was cautious.
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GAZA CITY -- Tens of thousands of Palestinians greeted a convoy of ambulances yesterday bringing home the bodies of 15 militants killed in clashes with Israelis -- an Israeli gesture understood by Gazans as the first concrete benefit of a new truce.
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HERZLIYA, Israel  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon said on Thursday he saw a unique chance for peace with  new Palestinian leaders and was ready to coordinate his Gaza  withdrawal plan as a step to a broader deal.
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ARIEL SHARON, the Israeli Prime Minister, spoke last night of a unique chance for peace and said that he was ready to co-ordinate his Gaza withdrawal plan with the new Palestinian leadership that will succeed Yassir Arafat.
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JERUSALEMâWith his political life in the balance, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took the first tentative steps on the path to peace last night, winning parliamentary consent for a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of
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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.
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RESIDENTS of a small Jewish settlement said yesterday they have struck a deal to move together to a village inside Israel, the first community to agree to be moved, giving a boost to the government&#39;s contentious Gaza pullout plan.