Livni: Settlement blocs will be strengthened
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The Housing and Construction Ministry on Tuesday published tenders for about 1,001 new housing units in West Bank settlements.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says any new Palestinian unity government must meet conditions set by the West.
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The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program Monday with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.
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Commitments by EU leaders for 7,000 troops in southern Lebanon has helped to restore the bloc's credibility, but how the enlarged operation will function in practice and whether it will lead to lasting peace are quite different matters, European papers said.
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Residents of some Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip have proposed that their entire communities be moved to locations inside Israel under Prime Minister Ariel
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said Tuesday, violating a U.S.-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.    Sharon's aides said they had Washington's tacit approval for the construction, because the houses would be built inside existing settlements that are among the enclaves Israel insists on keeping under any peace settlement with the Palestinians...
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Israel will begin building another 533 housing units in the West Bank next year, an official said today, the latest indication that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is working to strengthen West Bank settlements while pushing ahead with a Gaza pullout plan.
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ROME, Jan 30 (IPS) - Following the resignation of prime minister Romano  Prodi last week after just 20 months in office, the future of  economic and social reforms due to be implemented by his  centre-left government appears uncertain.
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European Union foreign ministers were set to push on Friday for a revival of the Middle East peace process and discuss how the bloc could play a greater role in peace-brokering moves.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened the debate on his disengagement plan in the Knesset (parliament) on Monday by telling lawmakers that his plan would &quot;strengthen
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JERUSALEMâWith his political life in the balance, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took the first tentative steps on the path to peace last night, winning parliamentary consent for a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a month ago appears to have created a new atmosphere for possible renewal of peace efforts in the Middle East.
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The separation barrier in the West Bank will move closer to Israel in one area to minimize hardship to Palestinians, leaving three small Jewish settlements on the Palestinian side, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided Wednesday.
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of 120 in the West Bank in 2005, a move he said was essential to forging peace. militants, medics said, in an incursion aimed at halting mortar attacks on Jewish settlements.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved 1,000 more Israeli settler homes in the occupied West Bank to defuse a ruling party mutiny but the move was likely to anger Washington.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who devoted so much of his life to erecting settlements in still-disputed territories has now become his country&#39;s indispensable man in removing them.
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JERUSALEM - Shattering decades of public policy, the Israeli Parliament has, for the first time in the nation&#39;s history, approved a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.