Lapid Calls on Peres to Keep His Promise
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Shinui Party leader MK Tommy Lapid is calling on Labor leader Shimon Peres to âkeep his promiseâ and push for a secular government.
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JERUSALEM -- From the podium of the Israeli Knesset last week, Shimon Peres, the engineer of the Oslo peace process and leader of the parliamentary opposition, lambasted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's speech on the state of the nation. Minutes later, in a nearby conference room, he urged his Labor party colleagues not to vote against Sharon's program so as not ...
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Israel&#39;s prime minster and the man expected to lead the Palestinians following the death of Yasser Arafat are willing to meet, they said at the weekend.
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JERUSALEM -- Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres was sworn in as Israel's president yesterday and pledged to seize the opportunity to encourage long-delayed efforts to achieve a diplomatic resolution to conflict in the Middle East.
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NEWYORK - President George W. Bush called on Israel yesterday to enforce a freeze in the settlements and to end the &quot;daily humiliation&quot; of the Palestinians, and told the Palestinians that a &quot;commitment to democratic reform is essential to resolving the
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Actor Richard Gere records a message urging Palestinians to vote at the forthcoming elections.
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The interim Palestinian leader pledged to uphold Arafat&#39;s legacy and create and negotiate for peace. RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- Mahmoud Abbas kicked off his campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat, pledging yesterday
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JERUSALEM: A Jewish settler leader urged followers on Monday to resist the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, signalling a shift toward revolt after settlers lost hope of stopping the pullback by political means.
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The leader of the opposition Labour party in Israel, Shimon Peres, has called for an early general election.
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To keep Israel fed in a year when land is required to lie fallow, farmers look to Palestinians for help.
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Likud and Labor Party officials said Sunday they hope to sign a coalition agreement Monday or Tuesday. The head of the Likud&#39;s negotiating team, Yoram Raved, told
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PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) on Sunday renewed his pledge to honor Yasser Arafat&#39;s legacy by working to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital alongside Israel.
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Syria on Tuesday insisted that it had  not dropped a demand that Israel stick to a promise said to  have been made by late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to abandon  all Syrian land under any peace treaty.
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From Arab Knesset Member Azmi Bshara: &quot;We relied on him in certain political core issues since the man (Arafat) was a &quot;safe guard&quot; and because his presence at the negotiation meant no giving up.
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Israeli opposition Labour party leader Shimon Peres, who shared the Nobel peace prize with Yasser Arafat in 1994, on Thursday criticised the Palestinian leader for continuing on the path of &quot;terrorism&quot;.
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Senior members of Israel's ruling Kadima party on Monday called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to give more detail of his rapprochement efforts with the Palestinians ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on statehood.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confronted Likud party rebels with a pledge to put the good of Israel first Wednesday as he battled to avoid an embarrassing defeat over his Gaza pullout plan.