State for Palestinians and Peace With Israel Left Unrealized
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Yasir Arafat will be buried in Ramallah, at the fortress where he spent the last three years confined by the Israelis.
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Israel is set on a collision course with the European Union and could turn into a pariah state, like South Africa during the apartheid years, if the Mideast conflict is not resolved, Israel's Foreign Ministry warns in a confidential 10-year forecast.
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Yasir Arafat was both the symbol of the Palestinians&#39; hope for a viable, independent state and the prime obstacle to its realization.
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Since the peace process began at the 1991 Madrid Conference, Gaza has not been a topic for negotiation. That&#39;s because everyone realized that in any peace agreement with the Palestinians there would cease to be an Israeli presence in the Strip.
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&quot;The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the. &quot;When you freeze the process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state ... Effectively,.
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It is now nearly 60 years since Britain shed the thankless burden of ruling the Holy Land - and rarely since then have hopes been so high that the former mandatory power can do something useful to help to bring Arabs and Jews closer to peace.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East peace quest was severely jolted when his counterpart in the West Bank took umbrage at suggestions that the Palestinians needed to be groomed for statehood.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that there cannot be peace in the Middle East unless the Palestinians gain a state that satisfies their aspirations.
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France stressed that the Middle East peace process has to be pushed forward in a way to establish a viable Palestinian state and make late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's dream come true.
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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Analysis: Why there's little grounds for optimism that Tony Blair, Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas can restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
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&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it&#39;s very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful
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Efforts to form a Palestinian government acceptable to the West have gone "back to zero," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday, a day after Hamas said a coalition government that recognizes Israel is unacceptable.
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YASSER Arafatâs death is a development of monumental dimensions. The void it has left in one of the worldâs most disturbed and disturbing regions would be hard to fill, but filled it has to be.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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Seven years of violence have bludgeoned expectations for Mideast peacemaking, and Israelis and Palestinians are greeting President Bush's belated drive to solve their decades-old conflict with deep skepticism.