Olmert hosts Abbas in fresh talks
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders hold talks in Jerusalem designed to bolster the Palestinian government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks  on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached  border with Egypt.
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Ehud Olmert said today he is willing to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state if the new government headed by president Mahmoud Abbas pledges to combat terrorism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday to see if they could narrow differences over Palestinian statehood ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference in November.
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JERUSALEM -- Aides are planning a long-awaited summit between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, which could revive peace talks, officials from both sides said yesterday. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Abbas and Olmert last week to push forward such dialogue, stalled by regional violence, the election of a Hamas-led government, and the ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to salvage peace talks bogged down by a row over Jewish settlements, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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The Palestinian and Israeli leaders met for the second time this month today to discuss the "core issues" that would have to be tackled before a Palestinian state could be inaugurated.
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Israel will invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume long-stalled peace talks after Palestinian militants release a captured Israeli soldier, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks on Palestinian statehood on Tuesday but discussed core issues only in broad terms, a senior Palestinian official said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed Sunday to authorize peace talks, which could begin Monday, according to the offices of both leaders.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas plans a new round of talks with Hamas leaders in   a bid to break a stalemate over forming a unity government, his   aides said on Monday.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 â Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, agreed today to set up a team of negotiators to flesh out their understandings of what a permanent, two-state solution would like look and require.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials on Wednesday held high-level political talks for the first time since Israel suspended contacts two weeks ago after saying that the new president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was not doing enough to combat terrorism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet to try to halt two weeks of violence that has seen southern Israel battered by rockets and Gaza pummeled by airstrikes.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas say they are willing to hold talks.
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President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority also declared his readiness to hold talks with IsraelÂs prime minister.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he hoped his summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday would project a new spirit of peace after Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip in a civil war.