Gaza Complicates Rice's Mission
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Arriving in Israel to try to win support for Mideast summit, the Secretary of State encounters new tensions over Israel's decision to declare the Palestinian enclave a "hostile entity"
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  on Tuesday held out the possibility of U.S. support to train  and equip Palestinian forces as she seeks to promote Middle  East peace on a visit to the region next week.
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The UN says Israeli restrictions are severely affecting its ability to provide food and aid to the Gaza Strip.
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Hamas said on Tuesday it still hoped Washington would soften its position toward a Palestinian unity government following talks U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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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 both Washington and Israel say they intend to shun.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 18 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday shuttled between meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, seeking to lay the groundwork for a successful three-way summit Monday in the face of Israeli anger at a new Palestinian government that includes the militant group...
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The United States vetoed an Arab-backed UN Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli military operations in Gaza. Last night&#39;s vote in the 15-member Security Council was
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel on Saturday in an uphill bid to revive stalled peace talks after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a defiant appeal for acceptance of his pact with Hamas.
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Chicago Tribune - As she embarks Thursday on her first overseas trip as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice will find one big difference between her old role as one of President Bush's closest White House confidants and her new job as America's ambassador to the world.
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The suicide bombing further complicating a difficult mission for Mahmoud Abbas who had just arrived in Gaza seeking to halt such attacks.
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A Middle East "two-state solution"  is jeopardized after several events including Iran's recent efforts to support Hamas militants, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel eased its siege of Gaza for a day on Tuesday, allowing in shipments of fuel and medicine. But tensions erupted over Egypt's closure of its Gaza border, with Palestinian protesters breaking through the crossing and clashing with Egyptian guards.
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Jerusalem - As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pressed ahead this week with his Gaza Strip evacuation plan, he grappled with a new obstacle to implementing the withdrawal: the specter of violent clashes mushrooming into a civil war.
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BERLIN, Feb. 20 -- Over Christmas vacation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took home a three-foot stack of reports written by the State Department historian on previous efforts by the United States to forge Middle East peace. Rice had read memoirs by her predecessors, but as she embarked on her own effort to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she decided she needed to study a day-by-day diplomatic narrative of  what had gone wrong in the past....
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 18 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday shuttled between Palestinian and Israeli leaders, seeking to lay the groundwork for a successful three-way summit Monday in the face of Israeli anger at a new Palestinian government that includes the militant group Hamas.
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The agreement is the most serious effort to end the fighting in Gaza, but it is not clear whether it will take effect and hold.
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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.