Abbas warns barrier will not bring Israel security
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TULKAREM, West Bank - Palestinian presidential election favourite Mahmud Abbas said the West Bank barrier would not deliver security to Israel as he addressed voters who have been walled in by the giant structure.
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Israel should stop building its West Bank separation barrier if Palestinian militants halt attacks, Israel&#39;s president was quoted as saying Thursday, in the most high-profile criticism yet of the contentious project.
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The man widely believed to be leading the new Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that his group wants to maintain calm in the area, but will not be the "protector" of the Israeli border.
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Israel will not block Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from assuming control of the Gaza Strip's breached border crossing with Egypt as part of an agreement with Cairo, Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is under pressure from his Fatah faction not to attend a U.S.-led Middle East conference, aides said on Tuesday, citing uncertainty over its participants and outcome.
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JERUSALEM - Opposition leader Shimon Peres warned on Monday Israel would face a catastrophe if the pullout from Gaza is blocked, saying a continued presence in the territory ran counter to national security.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas headed into a meeting with the Israeli leader Tuesday warning that a planned international peace conference would be a "waste of time" if it failed to address the core issues of Palestinian statehood &#151; borders, refugees and Jerusalem.
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The Palestinians will not accept an interim settlement with Israel, Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League during a visit to Egypt yesterday.
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Taking his campaign to succeed Yasir Arafat to the foot of Israel&#39;s West Bank separation wall, interim Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas has said there will be no peace until Israel tears it down.
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Middle East News, GAZA, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has called for his people to pursue negotiations instead of violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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MAHMOUD Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, has called for an end to armed attacks against Israeli targets in an attempt to mark out a new strategy for peace in the wake of Yasser Arafatâs death.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, maneuvering against his Hamas rivals, overruled constitutional curbs on his emergency government and named an ex-guerrilla chief for a key security post on Sunday.
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By the News-Register. Mahmoud Abbas, the interim leader of the Palestinian Authority, has made it clear that he believes terrorist attacks aimed at Israelis must end if there is to be peace between his people and Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faces  a crucial test of his new leadership on Tuesday when he visits  Gaza to try to persuade militants defying his calls for calm to  agree to cease attacks on Israel.
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Palestinian security forces took up  positions on Friday across northern Gaza to curb militant  attacks against Israel as part of new Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas's plan to halt violence and revive peace talks.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time Thursday ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas militants bent on besieging his Gaza City compound.
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Taking his campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat to the foot of Israel&#39;s West Bank barrier, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday there would be no peace until Israel tore it down.