Rice trip to test waters on Mideast peace
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will test the waters for a renewed push on Arab-Israeli peace when she visits the Middle East this week despite what analysts regard as huge obstacles.
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The United States will ask Israel to make "hard decisions" as it moves toward peace with the Palestinians, and both sides must live up to their promises, Condoleezza Rice said Sunday during her first trip to the Middle East as secretary of state.
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When the mood became tense between Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice invited her guests onto the balcony of her hotel suite overlooking Jerusalem's disputed Old City.
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All issues are on the table when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders next week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinians on Thursday that Washington intended a Middle East peace conference to put them firmly on the road towards statehood but gave no specifics.
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She's in the Mideast to try to bolster Arab moderates and revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.  Is this trip worth it?
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would visit the White House  for talks in the spring.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is renewing efforts to revive stalled Mideast peace talks, visiting the region this week for the first time since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire halted Israel's war with Hezbollah militants.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to President Bush's planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend.
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How Condoleezza Rice hopes to bring peace to the Middle East--and salvage the Administration's foreign policy
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will seek on Thursday to resuscitate the Palestinian-Israeli peace process after coming under pressure from moderate Arab nations hoping to expand a ceasefire deal.
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Condoleezza Rice will include the Middle East in her first trip abroad as US secretary of state next week.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice   headed to Jerusalem on Saturday to discuss ways to end the   18-day-old war in Lebanon as Israel rejected a U.N. plea for a   truce to aid civilians trapped by fighting.
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George W. Bush will make his first trip as U.S. president to Israel and the West Bank next month to try to shore up fragile peace efforts despite doubts about chances of a deal before he leaves office in 13 months.
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His trip includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a return visit soon afterward to keep up pressure on Israeli and the Palestinians to start peace negotiations.
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Syria could attend an upcoming Middle East peace conference in Washington as part of an Arab League committee, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.