Hamas criticises Blair envoy move
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Palestinian group Hamas pours scorn on former UK PM Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy.
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Palestinian negotiators have called on the Middle East Quartet to give the grouping&#39;s new envoy, Tony Blair, a wider role that included the responsibility for policing Israeli obligations, The Guardian reported on Thursday.
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The Palestinian Hamas group accuses a key figure in the rival Fatah faction of trying to kill PM Ismail Haniya.
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The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda's second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel's destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction.
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The Quartet of Mideast peacemakers meets Tuesday to assess the Israeli-Palestinian situation for the first time since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip, and there were indications the envoys also would discuss making Tony Blair the group's chief envoy.
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The PLO backs the idea of early Palestinian elections but Hamas, which won January's poll, condemns the move.
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JERUSALEM -- Western powers struggled yesterday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 13 -- The United Nations' former top Middle East envoy has sharply criticized U.S. and Israeli efforts to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government, saying the policy has further radicalized Palestinian opinion and undercut long-term efforts to establish a viable Palestinian...
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Middle East mediators held talks on Tuesday that could clear the way for the appointment of Tony Blair as their envoy to try to revive peace prospects after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East envoy beggars belief. But then his Texan benefactor has form on jobs-for-the-boys.
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Iran criticized on Sunday Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy but welcomed his successor as British prime minister, Gordon Brown.
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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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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair urged London's mayor yesterday to apologize for an offending remark made to a Jewish journalist in which he compared the reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
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Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday criticized France for &quot;doing terrorists a favor&quot; by pushing for the adoption of a UN resolution condemning an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie has attacked a planned London meeting on Palestinian reform, saying what was really needed was a peace conference.
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Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei gave a cool response to Tony Blair's plan for a Middle East conference and criticised comments by the British leader during his landmark visit to the West Bank.
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"All kinds of militias and military groups are banned, no matter to whom they belong"  Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, Palestinians said, the bloodiest fighting in the area since the Hamas militant group violently seized control two weeks ago.The outburst of violence came as the 'Quartet' of Mideast peace mediators was expected to name outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as its new envoy. A formal announcement was expected later in the day, but Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Blair had already accepted the post. Read more