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“I think collective punishment is never a solution,” Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU’s commissioner for external relations, told reporters in Jerusalem.
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The consul also said that U.S. President George W. Bush is asking Congress to approve $400 million in new aid for the Palestinian Authority
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The ZOA will be urging the Bush Administration to make this funding contingent on Abbas and the PA fulfilling all of their commitments that they made with the Oslo I, Oslo II, Hebron, Wye and Roadmap agreements.
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The U.S. security coordinator with the Palestinians, Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, toured Nablus on Thursday and praised the Palestinian efforts after meeting with the local security chiefs.
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Jews will live in the State of Israel in the Jewish State, and Palestinians, all Palestinians will be living in the Palestinian state which is being considered and will be established for one purpose mainly which is to be the homeland for the Palestinian
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The study examined the laying of five undersea pipelines: one each for crude oil, natural gas, electricity, water, and communications.
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to bomb first and then ask questions later, I think it undermines the system and it doesn’t lead to any solution
October 28, 2007
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met with former president Jimmy Carter on Wednesday and spoke by telephone with Bill Clinton
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The failure to push seriously for a successful conference in the fall will mean a devastating failure for the conference. This in turn will result in destroying the two-state solution
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“I’m afraid this is not a good example of statecraft,” Dennis Ross said. He should know.
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The first sanctions will be implemented in the coming days, with electricity supply being disrupted in the evening for periods between 15 minutes to an hour each time. Another form of sanctions that will be utilized is significantly cutting the volume of
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both sides agreed that Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, and the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, would form a committee to follow up on fulfilling road map obligations, which would be monitored by the quartet, and specifically, the United
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Israel’s war does not just include the destruction of wild plants; it also extends to the placement of Hebrew names on them.
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Abbas signed the decree Friday, and it was published in the Palestinian media on Saturday.
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According to Zahar, “Actually, those interested in such a thing are the Israeli Labor and Likud Parties, who are searching for a way to hamper Olmert and are also looking for a reason to attack Hamas.”
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The two leaders are also expected to discuss Turkey’s plans to set up a large industrial park in the West Bank that could provide jobs for thousands of Palestinians.
October 27, 2007
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For the first time, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who leads the Israeli negotiating team, will participate in the Olmert-Abbas meeting.
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“Israel will not be able to normalize relations with Arab nations without paying the price of anything related to the Palestinian issue,”
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Abbas, speaking in the Jordanian capital Amman after talks with King Abdullah, gave no further details of the Gaza discussions.
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“When we leave, the Hamas comes in,”
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According to the plan, Blair views it necessary to enact administrative reform in the security agencies of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in order to make their war against Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in the West Bank more effective.
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major Jewish leaders said their groups have kept out of the public fray because of widespread skepticism about whether the upcoming conference, now slated for late November, has any chance to produce positive results.
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SHOULD the Israelis resist a joint US-Palestinian position, I see a possible crisis in US-Israel relations of unprecedented proportions
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Turkey’s reaction was swift and harsh: Blame the Jews.
October 26, 2007
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“I say we need to invite Hamas to Annapolis, if from the beginning, they are prepared to receive any joint document signed by Abu Mazen [PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas] and Ehud Olmert.”
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The US will be able to sustain the proposed course only if it is prepared to extend long-term support to its Arab partners against the foreseeable onslaught.
October 23, 2007
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“Then the document could be used as support for conferences,” “Hopefully, before the end of 2008 we can reach a real solution,”
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Abbas and Fayad are said to be at odds over the latter’s demand that the Palestinians display a more soft-line approach toward US efforts to convene the conference in Annapolis.
October 22, 2007
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59 members of Knesset and ministers on Thursday signed a declaration opposing the division of Jerusalem in any future agreement
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Slater, who is of Syrian descent, was visiting Israel for the first time as part of efforts by the group “Surfing for Peace”
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“It was a very tough meeting,” the official said. “President Abbas threatened to resign and to deliver a public speech that would cause the US political difficulties and earthquakes not only in the Palestinian territories, but among US allies throughout t
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Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic movement in Israel, warned of the Israeli authorities’ continuity of the demolition of the Mughrabi gate and cautioned the Palestinian leadership of the Israeli conceptions.
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“My message to Mr. Olmert will simply be that … time has come to make peace,” Sarkozy told a news conference
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Nabil Abu Issa, head of the village of Muchtar, located a few hundred meters above the refugee camp, told the Post that he doesn’t see himself as a Palestinian. “We don’t want to be under Palestinian authority. We are Jerusalemites, we vote for the mayor
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Extremists in the haredi community periodically try to force men and women to sit separately on public buses, while some bus lines that serve the haredi public provide segregated seating.
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Skip Gnehm wrapped things up with an incisive critique of the Bush administration’s approach to the region: tactics without strategy. A Do they want a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian relationship or not?
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ليس في قاموسنا شيء اسمه إسرائي
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There is an Israeli group called Breaking the Silence, former soldiers who want to publicize what they’ve seen and done in the Palestinian Territories in order to counter what they perceive as Israeli leadership’s desire to obscure what happens day-to-d
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One Voice cancellation followed grassroots pressure by Palestinians who objected to what they see as yet another attempt to promote a false peace
