Israel says campaign to take weeks
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Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon on   Tuesday, killing 23 people, and Israel said its offensive to   crush Hezbollah could take a few more weeks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert delayed a plan to release from prison scores of members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement, Israeli officials said on Saturday.
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Officials say it will take more than a year to clear southern Lebanon of unexploded cluster bombs dropped by Israel.
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Israel renewed its threat on Monday  to remove Yasser Arafat but hinted it had delayed taking action  against the Palestinian president to avoid complicating a  planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Thousands of Ethiopian Jews who left their native villages to relocate to Israel have been camping for months or even years in the capital, waiting in vain to get to the Promised land.
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Lawyers for George W Bush and John Kerry have taken weeks to hammer out a 32-page document laying out the ground rules for the upcoming US presidential election debates.
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Israeli troops could pull back from several West Bank cities within days, pending the outcome of further talks with the new Palestinian leadership, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday.
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Efforts to organize Iraqi immigrants to cast absentee ballots in their homeland's elections are beset by delays in planning and logistical obstacles.
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Israel grabbed strategic high ground in south Lebanon on Thursday but delayed a major push northward, as diplomats cited progress toward agreement on a U.N. cease-fire resolution that could soon go to a vote.
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Israeli political parties were yesterday bogged down in hard bargaining over the formation of a new coalition government to implement the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to
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Israeli leaders vowed on Monday to step up their war against Hamas and predicted the Islamists' grip on the Gaza Strip would end within months.
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The opposition Labour Party in Israel has begun coalition talks with the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party. Labour leader Shimon Peres says negotiations to establish a coalition government could be completed within a few days.
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Israel holds the preemptive wildcard, but experts doubt Osirak-style repeat.
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Israel on Saturday rejected U.N.   calls for a 72-hour pause in fighting to enable relief workers   to evacuate elderly, young and wounded people from south   Lebanon and to bring in emergency aid.
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Israel&#39;s two leading rival political parties worked Saturday toward finalizing details for a new coalition government that would empower Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to pursue
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Even while mourning the loss of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leadership ordered preparations for new presidential elections to start immediately and appealed to the United States to take an active role in securing a vote in 60 days.
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Israel's prime minister says a military operation in Gaza will continue until Palestinian rocket attacks are stopped.