Palestinian unity government won't bring peace: Peres
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Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Wednesday a Palestinian unity government would be a facade aimed at easing Western economic sanctions rather than a new framework for seeking peace with Israel.
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Palestinian leaders must overcome their   differences and present a united front if peace talks with   Israel are to succeed, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon   Peres said on Wednesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas has frozen talks on forming a unity government   after Hamas said it would not accept existing peace deals with   Israel, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Friday the Jewish state should not agree to a truce with Hamas unless the Islamist group first stops rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas said on Friday it would not join any   Palestinian unity government that recognized Israel, rebuffing   President Mahmoud Abbas who told the United Nations any future   coalition would do so and also renounce violence.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a U.S.-sponsored conference on Palestinian statehood would not yield a peace breakthrough, seeking to head off a revolt by rightist coalition partners.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has spent the past two weeks struggling to reach a power-sharing deal with the Hamas government -- a government that hasn't paid salaries in six months and that hobbles along with thousands of workers on strike and four Cabinet members in Israeli jails.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday for talks that seemed likely only to highlight their divisions over a Palestinian unity government whose formation appears imminent.
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Furious over the killing of two Israelis hiking in the West Bank, Israel's prime minister said Sunday that no peace will come until Palestinians crack down on militants, a declaration that clouds a coming visit by President Bush.
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The Palestinians will not accept an interim settlement with Israel, Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League during a visit to Egypt yesterday.
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As violence between the two main Palestinian factions has intensified, hopes are fading for a Palestinian national unity government &#151; seen as a precondition for renewed negotiations with Israel. Olmert is offering the Palestinians far-reaching concessions and a state of their own if they choose the path of peace talks.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Hamas urged the West on Friday to accept a new Palestinian unity government but leading officials from the Islamist group said they would never recognize Israel nor abide by existing peace accords.
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Israeli Labour leader Shimon Peres  said on Saturday coalition talks between his party and Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon could be resolved in days and were vital  to speed up a Gaza pullout and bring Middle East peace.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday the United States had not yet decided how it would treat a new unity Palestinian government that includes Hamas, contradicting earlier suggestions that Washington would shun the new government.
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A top UN official said it was a &quot;bad month&quot; for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: more violence, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister apparently backing away from an international peace plan, and the Palestinians still far from implementing badly needed reforms
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Israel on Tuesday ruled out holding Mideast peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas once he forms a coalition with Hamas militants, saying the new unity government must give in to international demands to recognize Israel's right to exist.
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AUSTIN, Texas  - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday a lasting peace accord with Israel was unlikely in 2008 despite renewed diplomatic efforts to resolve the long-running conflict.