Attack on Blair shows rift in Palestinian leadership
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JUST a day after Tony Blair left the Middle East, having won backing for a conference in London on the Israeli- Palestinian problem, the cracks were already beginning to show.
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The beheading of British hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq could fuel public and political anger against Tony Blair over a war that split the country and his party, analysts say.
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JERUSALEM -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders that were notable less for what was said and done than for sending a message of the West&#39;s desire to re-engage with the Middle East peace process.
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TONY EASTLEY: Since the death last month of Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat there&#39;s been a relative lull in violence against Israeli forces in the occupied territories.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie has attacked Tony Blair&#39;s planned London meeting on Palestinian reform, saying what was really needed was a peace conference.
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Western powers struggled on Tuesday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Tony Blair has redoubled his commitment to finding a resolution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestine. The prime minister told the Commons on Wednesday that bringing peace to the region was the &quot;key&quot; to tackling international terrorism.
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In the biggest test of his brief tenure, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas came to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hoping to persuade militants to halt attacks on Israel. But in a show of defiance, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a settler road in Gaza, killing an Israeli security agent and wounding seven other Israelis.
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Tony BlairÂs slide is paired with the ascent of another leader.
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Assessments of the impact of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death are as divided as earlier explanations of the Palestinian leader&#39;s motivations, intentions, and actions.
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GAZA, NOVEMBER 14: Palestinian militants burst into a mourning tent set up for Yasser Arafat on Sunday and fired shots in protest at the presence of moderate successor Mahmoud Abbas, who was unhurt in a clash in which two security men were killed.
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GAZA CITY, NOVEMBER 16: The new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Mahmoud Abbas, met here last night with militant leaders as he began trying to solve the intricate political puzzle that Yasser Arafat left at his death.
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The Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, appeared to blame the rival Fatah faction for the fighting.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair met the  moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to lend  him support after a shaky truce between Abbas's forces and the  Hamas government took effect in the Gaza Strip.
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Unity that had developed in the Palestinian territories following the death of President Yasser Arafat was shattered when gunmen opened fire on Palestinian leaders Sunday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair faced anger over Iraq after three British soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, just days after being sent into a dangerous US-run sector of the war-torn country.
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Western powers struggled on Tuesday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip.