U.S. Wary of New Palestinian Accord
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The deal to create a Palestinian national unity government, announced Thursday in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, threatens to expose divisions between the United States and its European allies while complicating Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peace mission later this month, diplomats and analysts said...
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The Islamic militant group will dominate a new Palestinian government, and that won't make the U.S. and Israel  -  or Mahmoud Abbas  -  very happy
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A tacit agreement by the United States to allow Israel to expand its West Bank settlements will destroy the Middle East peace process, senior Palestinian officials said Sunday.
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The US secretary of state is to meet the new Palestinian leadership in the West Bank next week, an official says.
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The United States may be willing   to accept some easing of the West's boycott of the Palestinian   Authority as President Mahmoud Abbas tries to form a   national-unity government, diplomats said.
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Palestinians react angrily to reports the US is willing to accept Jewish settlement construction.
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The Palestinian leadership expressed dismay today at reports that the Bush Administration is turning a blind eye to an expansion of Israeli settlements.
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Apart from President Bush's reassurances of unwavering support for Palestinian statehood, there is little his administration is set to do in the short term to try to break the Middle East deadlock.
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Secretary of state to convince Palestinian leaders about US-backed Middle East peace conference.
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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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Senior Palestinian officials aspiring to succeed Yasser Arafat might have thought that their main obstacle would be Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon or his closest ally, the United States.
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Palestinians accused the United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East peace process after Washington signaled it could accept some growth of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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The Islamic militant group will dominate a new Palestinian government, and that won't make the U.S. and Israel -- or Mahmoud Abbas -- very happy
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The US secretary of state is due to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders as part of a new diplomatic effort.
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Palestinians from the president on down are opting for unity over pleasing the West. The choice became increasingly clear after this week's Mideast summit. In the meeting, the U.S. and Israel warned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that they'd shun the emerging Hamas-Fatah unity government because it won't explicitly recognize the Jewish state.
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The U.S. is trying to jump-start Middle East peace talks. But an accord between Palestinian factions got in the way. A key member of Congress discusses how the deal has affected U.S. funding for Fatah.
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Israel on Tuesday warmly welcomed the naming of Condoleezza Rice as America&#39;s top diplomat, but Palestinians were wary, saying the new Bush administration must put more energy into the quest for Middle East peace.