Settlers&#39; sign of hope in Israel
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RESIDENTS of a small Jewish settlement said yesterday they had reached a deal to move together to a village inside Israel. They are the first community to agree to be evacuated under the Government&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan.
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The Israeli Knesset&#39;s approval of a plan to dismantle Jewish settlements in Gaza and part of the West bank raises hopes for Middle East peace progress, but, as always in the region, there are myriad uncertainties.
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Washington -- The Bush administration, moving to lend political support to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a time of political turmoil, has signaled approval of growth in at least some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, American and Israeli
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MIDEAST:Residents hope lessening Israeli-Palestinian violence can help the town regain its tourist industry. BY LAURA KING. BETHLEHEM, West Bank - In this Christmas season of hopes and fears, the little town
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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Once again, hope flickers in the Middle East. There are encouraging signs that the death of Yasser Arafat is breathing life into hopes of reviving the peace process that Arafat had abandoned.
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Israel agreed last week to pay settlers in the Gaza Strip who voluntarily leave up to $500,000.
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As a Palestinian whose father was a refugee in Lebanon from 1948 and whose family continues to live under Israeli military occupation, many around the world expect me and other
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In the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, residents say that Israeli interests will trump theirs despite Bush's vow of a peace deal this year.
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As Israel's Knesset prepares to vote on withdrawal plans, young settlers are split over leaving their homes.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s illness and his departure from the West Bank presents a blessing and a curse for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
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UK News, LONDON, Is there hope in the Middle East in the aftermath of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, or will the optimistic noises now being made fizzle out into the usual confrontation?
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JERUSALEM -- Jewish settler leaders urged their followers yesterday to resist the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, signaling a shift toward revolt after settlers lost hope of stopping the pullback by political means.
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HAR GILO, West Bank  - Israel plans to build 530  new settler homes in the occupied West Bank after Washington  softened its opposition to growth in Jewish enclaves, a policy  shift Palestinians say will make peace impossible.
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THE MONTH since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death has seen an encouraging flurry of movement on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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WADI FUKIN, West Bank -- The Palestinians of this village have long looked toward Tzur Hadassah, a neighboring Israeli town, for jobs building homes on land that decades ago belonged to them.
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QALQILYA, West Bank  - Shouts of joy from excited  schoolboys greeted the arrival of an Israeli convoy on its  entry to a Palestinian town where visitors from the Jewish  state are usually soldiers searching for militants.