Bush and Sharon Play to Their Galleries on Settlement Growth
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Bush administration officials say the US could agree to some new Israeli settlement construction on the West Bank, provided it does step outside the boundaries of existing locations - a departure from the freeze demanded till now.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.
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President Bush received renewed promises of bargaining for Mideast peace and a polite hearing for his warnings about Iran, and he collected major bling from his Arab hosts.
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Perhaps through his death, Yasser Arafat has created a new opportunity for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As the former Palestinian leader was buried on Friday, President Bush and British Prime Minister
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon gives the green light to 1,000 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Palestinian officials have called on the Bush administration to clarify its position on the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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WITH THE WORLD&#39;S attention focused on Athens and Najaf, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is bent on expanding settlements in the West Bank by more than 1,000 new apartments and has plans for 1,000 more.
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The Bush administration has signaled approval of growth in some Israeli settlements in the West Bank in a policy change aimed at helping Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the New York Times said on Saturday.
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(Ottawa-AP, November 30, 2004) - As they try to mend fences, President Bush and the prime minister of Canada are talking openly about their differences.
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President Bush on Tuesday called on Israel to impose a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, taking a harder line on settlement growth than Washington has recently.
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Seeing a rare and probably fleeting opportunity to influence the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the Bush administration is preparing financial assistance to help Palestinians
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Description: Although most of the second term plans articulated by President Bush have focused on domestic issues, a post-Arafat era could force President Bush to put Middle East peace back on the White House agenda.
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MUSCAT, 31 August 2004 - It was expected that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would surprise the world with a decision to expand the settlements by building more housing units in the West Bank.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel agreed yesterday on a strategy to prop up the embattled Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas with financial aid, eased travel restrictions, moral support, and peace talks as they struggled to counter the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to begin tackling the core issues of a final peace deal, as they prepared for President Bush's arrival in the region Wednesday
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Seven years of violence have bludgeoned expectations for Mideast peacemaking, and Israelis and Palestinians are greeting President Bush's belated drive to solve their decades-old conflict with deep skepticism.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepare for talks to try to defuse a row over Jewish settlement activity.