Clinton: Time is now for Mideast peace
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| In an unusual joint interview with Israeli and Palestinian television broadcasters a day after she presided over the launch of the first direct talks in two years, Clinton said the rise of Iranian-backed extremist ideology in the Middle East is a ma ... |
Netanyahu, Abbas Vow to Seek Mideast Accord as Settlements Shadow Talks
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| Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to resume peace talks in two weeks even as a dispute over West Bank settlement building threatens to undercut the effort. ... |
Hillary Clinton: Mideast Peace Talks May Be 'The Last Chance For A Very Long Time'
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| WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement. In an unusual joint interview w ... |
Hill's sense of urgency
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| WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks yesterday, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement. In an unusual joint in ... |
Settlements remain obstacle in Mideast peace talks
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 | After two days of meetings and talks led by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli and Palestinian leaders leave Washington deadlocked over the contentious issue of Israeli settlements. ... |
Netanyahu, Abbas Are Talking, Now What?
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| President Obama brought two key players together this week to talk about Mideast peace: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Robert Malley of the International Crisis Group talks to Steve Inskee ... |
West Bank Settlements Shadow Next Peace Talks Round
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| Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to resume peace talks in two weeks even as a dispute over West Bank settlement building threatens to undercut the effort. ... |
Clinton: Time is now for Mideast peace
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| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement. ... |
Settlers defy Netanyahu with vow to begin construction (McClatchy Newspapers)
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| McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Jewish settlers across the West Bank have vowed to begin construction in more than 60 locations, posing a direct challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he returned home from Thursday's first round ... |
Mideast peace talks: How can Obama push them forward?
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| Mideast peace talks will continue Sept. 14-15 in the region, and the Israeli and Palestinian leaders intend to meet every two weeks or so after that. Many say that the US needs to take a strong role. ... |
Back from talks, Israel and Palestinian leaders face internal opposition to peace moves
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| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian co... ... |
Clinton: Middle East Peace Talks Could Be 'Last Chance'
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| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" to reach an agreement. ... |
Israeli, Palestinian leaders face critics of talks
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| Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talk ... |
Israel, Palestinians to Seek Compromises `Framework'
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 | Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to resume peace talks in two weeks even as a dispute over West Bank settlement building threatens to undercut the effort. ... |
Abbas agrees to fresh Israeli-Palestinian talks in Egypt, but has little support at home (The Christian Science Monitor)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - When Israeli-Palestinian peace talks move beyond today's summit in Washington, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will face a tough balancing act as even his allies at home push back against US and Israeli pressures. ... |
Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Lowering the Bar on 'Progress'
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| Nobody expects the Mideast talks to yield a two-state solution, because that's not their aim. But more temporizing will not help Abbas survive politically ... |
Clinton: Mideast talks 'last chance' for awhile
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| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to inject some urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long time" for an agreement. ... |
Abbas Flies Home to Violent Opposition
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| (Sept. 3) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas flew back from Washington after his first direct peace talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an uncertain welcome and an unpredictable political future. ... |
Summit of smiles
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 | WASHINGTON -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held "long and productive" meetings at the State Department yesterday and agreed to sit down together again later this month and then every two weeks unti ... |
Gaza’s Problems Make Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Futile
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| Palestine’s Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have their elbows twisted to the breaking point. ... |
Settlers defy Netanyahu with vow to begin construction
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| Jewish settlers across the West Bank have vowed to begin construction in more than 60 locations, posing a direct challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he returned home from Thursday's first round of direct peace talks in Washingto ... |
MJ Rosenberg: A New Netanyahu
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| I am trying hard to be optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that were kicked off at the White House on September 1st. It's not that I believe that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu wants to exchange the territories for peace (or even ... |
A 'future of peace' urged at new talks
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| The Obama administration formally inaugurated its foray into Middle East peacemaking on Thursday, bringing together the Israeli and Palestinian leaders for face-to-face talks and securing their pledge to meet every two weeks to pursue an end to the d ... |
Peace talks a test of Israel's Netanyahu
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 | Watching the Israeli and Palestinian leaders trudge to Washington for one more peace summit, one might wonder why President Obama invited them. Why should the president invest his prestige in an effort that looks so unpromising? ... |
Pessimism Permeates Mideast Media on Peace Talks
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| Many Palestinian and Israeli commentators described this week’s talks in Washington as mere political theater. ... |
Pessimism Permeates Mideast Media on Peace Talks
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| Many Palestinian and Israeli commentators described this week’s talks in Washington as mere political theater.br ... |
Israeli-Palestinian talks: How to keep saboteurs at bay
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| Even before the Israeli-Palestinian talks began Sept. 2, an attack by Hamas and a death call by a prominent Jewish rabbi have signaled that extremists want to derail the negotiations. Benjamin Natanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas need to rally the center. ... |
Israel and Palestinians agree to more peace meetings
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday, seeking to forge the framework for a U.S.-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that has boiled for six decades. ... |
Netanyahu, Abbas return home to criticism
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 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talks at all. ... |
Mideast leaders to hold bimonthly peace talks (AFP)
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 | AFP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be difficult negotiations, vowing to try to settle core differences within a year and meet every two weeks. ... |
Ahmadinejad: Peace talks doomed
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| Iran's president urges Palestinians to continue armed resistance against Israel at al-Quds Day rally Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today launched an angry attack on "doomed" US-brokered Middle East peace talks and urged the Palestinians to c ... |
Mideast people 'capable of removing' Israel: Ahmadinejad (AFP)
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 | AFP - Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene" in an annual Palestinian solidarity day address in Tehran. ... |
Middle East talks begin with work plan
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| Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet in Washington and agree on fortnightly talks to work toward a peace deal even as the issue of settlement construction in the West Bank threatens to derail the effort. Israeli and Palestinian leaders formally reope ... |
Familiar themes dominate first day of peace talks
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 | Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, yesterday opened the first face-to-face Middle East peace talks in two years by demanding an end to Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that any agree ... |
Negotiators begin on 'framework agreement'
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 | Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: They agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt. ... |
Middle East peace 'in a year'
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| Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin framework talks on a peace deal which could encompass borders, Jerusalem, Jewish settlements and security The Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, met for the first day of direct ... |
Iran's president says Israel 'can be removed from the world'
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 | Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene" in an annual Palestinian solidarity day address in Tehran. "If the leaders of the region ... |
Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks
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| To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas - the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and ... |
Settlements in West Bank Are Clouding Peace Talks
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 | Middle East negotiators agreed to keep talking, but the issue of West Bank settlements threatens to derail the negotiations. ... |
Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks
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| To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas ... |
Hamas, though excluded from Mideast talks, is among most intractable issues
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| To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant ... ... |
Mitchell Says Israel, Palestinians to Outline Treaty Compromises
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| Middle East envoy George Mitchell said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agreed today to seek a “framework” accord as part of their peace talks. ... |
Small gains made in Mideast peace talks
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 | Israelis and Palestinians have embarked on another round of peace talks an outcome that Middle East experts said is about as good as it gets ... ... |
Middle East peace talks: Back to the table
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| Israel’s prime minister sounds upbeat, even if no one else does YET another bout of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations was launched this week amid a splurge of pious public talk tempered by sceptical punditry. Not much new in that, it seems, tho ... |
World Briefing | Middle East: Gaza: Militant Groups Promise More Attacks
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| Thirteen militant groups in Gaza vowed Thursday to step up attacks on Israeli targets to foil peace negotiations. ... |
Middle East Peace Talks 'Every Two Weeks'
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 | The Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed to meet again every two weeks during initial Middle East peace talks that have been described as "productive". ... |
Israel and Palestinians resume direct talks
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| The first direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on a Mideast peace agreement got underway Thursday with Hilary Clinton hailing the two sides' leaders as the people who could make the "long-cherished dream a reality." Middle East - I ... |
Eyes on Clinton as She Leads Mideast Peace Talks
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| As President Obama pushes a new round of Mideast peac talks, opinions are split on whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has skills to necessary for negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis. Middle East - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Presi ... |
Israel, Palestinians Set Next Round of Talks
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 | The two sides, meeting in Washington for the first direct Middle East peace talks in nearly two years, agreed to convene a second round in two weeks. ... |
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Skips Any Talk to Guests About James Lee; Al Gore Mentioned at 6 AM
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 | MSNBC’s Morning Joe seemed to be trying very hard to avoid the Discovery Channel hostage incident on Thursday morning -- even though NBC had the exclusive of speaking with hostage-taker James Jay Lee before he was shot. With Willie Geist and Chris J ... |
Obama Says Israel, Palestinians Must Seize Chance for Peace in Middle East
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 | President Barack Obama faced an immediate challenge to the Middle East talks he opens today as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Palestinians insisted that Israel hold to its freeze on West Bank settlement building. ... |
