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BBC News
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An Israeli general wanted for alleged war crimes escaped arrest in the UK because British police feared an armed confrontation at Heathrow airport.
Documents seen by BBC News reveal how Major General Doron Almog managed to fly back to Israel when polic..
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SF Gate
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Seeking Arab nations' support for an American peace initiative, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his government's approval Monday to free 441 Palestinian prisoners and reaffirmed a pledge to tear down dozens of unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost..
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USA Today
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The West Bank-based Palestinian government promised Monday to pay full salaries to tens of thousands of civil servants, but warned that employees cooperating with the Islamic militant Hamas would not be on the payroll.
The payments have become the late..
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FOX News
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The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved the release of frozen tax funds to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said, in a step to bolster the moderate Palestinian leader in his standoff against the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.
Prime Ministe..
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CNN
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his country would be a "genuine partner" of a new Palestinian government and promised to consider releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax funds.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud..
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CNN
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Black plumes of smoke poured from a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli on Tuesday as members of an Islamic militant group battled the Lebanese army for a third day.
The crack of small-arms fire echoed through the neighborhoods surrounding the overcr..
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VOA News
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The United States Thursday reiterated its sorrow over the deaths of Palestinian civilians in Israeli artillery fire in Gaza. But the State Department ruled U.S. support for what it said is a one-sided draft resolution condemning Israel presented by Arab s..
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Yahoo News
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Egypt moved 5,000 more security forces near the Gaza Strip border on Saturday after an Israeli report said Israel may bomb tunnels used for smuggling weapons into Palestinian territories, an Egyptian official said...
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Ynet News
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says at Tehran pro-Palestinian rally, �Zionist regime, thank God, has lost all reason to exist; it was established in the heart of Islamic territory for one purpose � to pose a threat to the region through constant attacks and killings..
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BBC News
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The Quartet of major powers mediating in the Middle East peace process has called on Arab states to honour aid pledges to the Palestinians.
The call was made after talks in London between the UN, US, EU and Russia.
US officials say only about a fift..
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BBC News
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Israeli forces have briefly re-entered the Gaza Strip and clashed with Palestinian militants, with two people killed by gunfire, medics said.
The dead were reported to be a senior militant and a baby girl.
Israel stepped up military raids last week..
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BBC News
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have begun talks in Jerusalem on what are seen as the most intractable issues in the peace process.
These include the status of Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, refu..
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CNN
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Organizers of a major donors conference to raise aid for the Palestinians hailed the event Monday as a new beginning for the region, saying countries should seize the moment to help build a Palestinian state. The one-day event in the French capital brough..
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SF Gate
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Even though Palestinian and Israeli leaders agreed Tuesday to work toward a peace settlement by the end of next year, they will still have to confront an intractable issue - the right of Palestinian refugees to return home.
The 75,000 Palestinians who..
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BBC News
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The government of Israel has approved the release of 450 Palestinian detainees in a move announced just before talks with Palestinian leaders.
A senior Israeli official said it was a goodwill gesture ahead of a Middle East peace conference in the US ne..
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USA Today
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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 in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palesti..
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BBC News
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed an agreement giving the Palestinian Authority $80m (�39m) to reform their security services.
Ms Rice was in the West Bank, where she attended a meeting of the Fatah-led cabinet which was installed aft..
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MSNBC
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Palestinian officials said they also will tell Rice that Israel must start withdrawing troops from West Bank cities and restore the control of the Palestinian security forces there.
Israel seeks quick settlement for West Bank
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SF Gate
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The question arose more than once on a popular Palestinian talk radio program.
Callers to Radio Ajyal (or Generation) asked host Maisoun Manasreh and her regular guest, Sheikh Saleh Naytan, a 48-year-old cleric, whether Muslims are permitted to say hel..
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FOX News
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned as head of an emergency government and was immediately appointed Saturday to lead an interim Cabinet, after a state of emergency imposed after Hamas' Gaza takeover expired.
Fayyad's resignation and reapp..
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