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FOX News
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners, officials said, in the government's latest gesture of support for moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the Hamas militant group.
However, t..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Hamas fighters took over two security command centers and vanquished the rival Fatah's movement in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, prompting beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
Hamas also seized con..
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BBC News
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The Palestinian and Israeli leaders are preparing for talks to try to stop the peace process being overshadowed by a row over Jewish settlement activity.
Mahmoud Abbas will press Ehud Olmert to halt settlement construction plans in Israeli-occupied Eas..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have begun what is being seen as a key meeting in Jerusalem.
The two are trying to prepare a programme for next month's US-sponsored Middle East conference.
But the..
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SF Gate
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas broached issues at the heart of the Middle East conflict Tuesday during a session intended to generate momentum for a U.S.-sponsored peace conference this fall, aides sai..
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BBC News
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders are holding talks in Jerusalem, the latest in a series to bolster Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian government.
The meetings are at Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, involving teams of negotiators before one-on-one talk..
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Al Jazeera
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Abbas and Olmert have been meeting regularly for several months, last meeting in Jericho on August 6, but few concrete results have emerged from the summits.
'False promises'
Walid Batrawi, Al Jazeera's correspondent in the West Bank, said Palesti..
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SF Gate
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In a belated move to erase the last vestiges of his short-lived partnership with the Islamic militant group Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, fired dozens of Hamas-affiliated senior civil servants, an official in his office s..
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SF Gate
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Ehud Olmert ventured into the West Bank on Monday to discuss the most divisive issues of a possible peace settlement, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to Palestinian territory in seven years.
The Israeli leader said he met with Palestinian..
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FOX News
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state...
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BBC News
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Talks between Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank have been described by both sides as "constructive".
Broad principles for establishing a Palestinian state were discussed but no significant progress was anno..
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FOX News
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Israel released more than 250 Palestinian prisoners Friday in a gesture to embattled President Mahmoud Abbas, who pledged not to rest until Israel's jails were emptied of its thousands of Palestinians.
The release was meant to bolster Abbas in his powe..
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BBC News
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More than 250 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons have received a rapturous welcome from relatives and friends in Ramallah, on the West Bank.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called them "heroes of freedom".
Israel agreed to the..
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USA Today
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More than 250 Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel on Friday were embraced by joyous relatives and hoisted on shoulders at Mahmoud Abbas' headquarters — a heroes' welcome that translated into pure political capital for the Palestinian president in his..
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BBC News
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Israel is to allow a key Palestinian leader to travel to the West Bank, in a measure seen as another attempt to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel holds Nawef Hawatmeh responsible for an attack on a school more than 30 years ago but will let him t..
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Al Jazeera
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Plea to Abbas
Hamas said it feared that opening the crossing would risks the lives of Hamas fighters and other Palestinian factions.
The protesters called on Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to hold himself responsible for ending the cr..
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Al Jazeera
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In response to Friday's killing, Allah Sanakeh, a spokesman for the group, said al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades would not honour a decree by Abbas that armed groups hand over their weapons.
Sanakeh said the Brigades needed to continue to respond to Israeli ra..
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Al Jazeera
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Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip two weeks ago when members of its armed wing forced the Fatah-dominated security forces out of the coastal territory during several days of violent clashes.
Abbas responded by dismissing the Hamas-led unity go..
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Al Jazeera
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Abbas said that he received information about the alleged plot a month ago.
"The information was confirmed by our security. But what the security was trying to verify was the exact time and date. But I went to Gaza anyway," Abbas said.
Jamal Naz..
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Al Jazeera
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In a television address a day earlier, Abbas criticised Hamas for attacking "national symbols" during its takeover of Gaza last week.
He accused Khaled Meshaal, Hamas leader-in-exile, of being part of a plot to assassinate him, referring to the group'..
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