Palestinians urge Rice to stop Israel
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Monday he wants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to force Israel to end its nearly month-old offensive in the Gaza Strip as new attacks killed six Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM, Oct. 4 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem Wednesday morning under pressure from Arab allies to jumpstart the Middle East peace process -- even as a Hamas official was gunned down by masked assailants and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas declared that...
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Before their elections in January, Palestinians are demanding that Israel pull back to pre-intifada positions.
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Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called for Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and free all prisoners in his first official campaign speech.
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WITHDRAWAL THREATENED: Settlement leaders in Gaza and the West Bank urge followers to resist withdrawal from parts of the occupied territories.
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Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, said Thursday Israel must stop military action against Palestinians or there can be no peace.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the favourite to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader, has called on his people to stop fighting Israel. Mr Abbas said Palestinians had a legitimate right &quot;to express their rejection of the occupation by popular and social means&quot;.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged  Gulf states Tuesday to take a greater role in securing Middle  East peace, and accused Syria of supporting terrorists bent on  destabilizing the region.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Washington's heft behind new Mideast peace overtures yesterday, scheduling an unexpected meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 15 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Israelis and Palestinians on Monday to compromise on a plan to jump-start peace negotiations, describing the ending of their long conflict as one of the top goals of President Bush in the 15 months he has left in office.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought explanations on Sunday from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about a unity government that Israel said it had agreed with Washington to shun.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched a new push to revive peace moves between Israel and the Palestinians with the United States under pressure from Arab allies to make it a priority.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushed Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to broaden their fragile Gaza ceasefire as Arab nations urged her to press Israel to ease restrictions in the occupied West Bank.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Islamic militants to cooperate with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying the Hamas government cannot govern in the region.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Condoleezza Rice travels from Israel to meet Palestinian leaders on Thursday to try and break a logjam between the two sides before Washington hosts a major Middle East peace conference.
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JERUSALEM - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the US-backed peace conference proposed for later this year must "advance the cause of a Palestinian state," but she acknowledged that much work remains to be done before Israeli and Palestinian officials agree on an agenda to achieve that goal.
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Palestinian leaders pressed the United States on Sunday to persuade Israel to remove troops from urban areas in a step aimed at ensuring smooth elections for replacing the late leader Yasser Arafat.