Top Palestinians Urge End to Violence After Arafat
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Prominent Palestinian figures appealed on Sunday for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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GAZA CITY - PLO leader Mahmud Abbas stepped up calls Friday to end âarmed chaosâ in the occupied territories, as the new Palestinian leadership prepares the ground for presidential elections in January.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, under growing pressure to rein in militants, ordered his security forces yesterday to prevent attacks on Israel and investigate a deadly shooting of Israeli civilians last week.
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The armed uprising against Israel is a mistake and must end, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published Tuesday, signaling his determination to change direction after Yasser Arafat's death.
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A UN Middle East expert Monday asked world leaders to continue Yasser Arafat&#39;s efforts to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The top Palestinian  decision-making body Sunday made its strongest appeal for  militants to stop attacks since Yasser Arafat's death last  November and replacement by President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged  militant groups in Gaza on Saturday to agree to a mutual  cease-fire with Israel but they said they would only consider  one if the Jewish state promised to stop its assaults first.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on  Tuesday for his people to pursue negotiations instead of  violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of  strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat's death.
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Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas says officials will take steps to end lawlessness and violence in the Palestinian territories ahead of scheduled January 9 elections for president.
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Palestinians reacted with tears and tributes to the death of their leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday.
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New York, Oct. 6 (NNN): Arab countries have urged the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding Israel stop a massive military attack in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 83 Palestinian civilians so far dead in the past one week.
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Prominent Palestinian figures have appealed for an end to violence, adding weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Palestinian leaders on Monday sought to end a bloody standoff between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants holed up in a refugee camp which has been the battleground for Lebanon's worst fighting since the civil war.
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A Palestinian mayor called Monday for the end of pilgrimages by Jewish groups to a holy site in his West Bank village after Muslim graves were desecrated there last week.
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RAMALLAH - New PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas called for an end to the armed uprising, as Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza yesterday in the aftermath of the most lethal Palestinian attack since Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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LONDON: Thousands of Palestinians poured onto the streets to mourn Yasser Arafat on Thursday while world leaders praised him as an icon of his people whose death could nonetheless pave the way for a new Middle East peace drive.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 3 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday appealed to the Palestinians to immediately end a new wave of internal fighting that has killed a dozen people and has further threatened to unravel the troubled Palestinian Authority.