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“We are ready for an unconditional dialogue in which all issues will be discussed, including that of bringing forward elections. I say to the leaders of Fatah that our differences are political,” Khaled Meshaal said, in a speech in Damascus on the 20th an
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“The visit has also the aim of coordinating attitudes prior to Bush’s visit to the region and to assert the point that the Israeli settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories represented a major hurdle in the path of negotiations,”
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The event is organized by a special team of The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, an independent academic body affiliated to the Jewish Agency.
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A senior Palestinian source told Al-Ayam, a Palestinian paper, that Israel launched the raid in order to evade its obligations under the road map for peace, by insisting that the Palestinians are not doing enough to stop terror.
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“Not really,” answered one of the brothers. “We are Castillian. That is, we lived in Spain for about 800 years. Then we were in Italy - actually, Livorno - for about 400 years. We were only in Turkey for 200 years. Then, about 80 years ago, we moved
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Brown, who formerly served as the U.K. finance minister, wants the conference to focus on economic issues. He spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert some 10 days ago, and raised the idea. Olmert did not express any opposition to the conference
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PA negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo, who has been dispatched to Washington for talks with US officials ahead of President George W. Bush’s visit to the region next week, will express the PA’s deep concern over Israel’s latest security measures
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“This way it will be possible to carry out negotiations without pressure - neither political nor through leaks - and we will be able to make more progress,”
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Israel has sent letters to Washington and to the EU’s headquarters in Brussels protesting Egypt’s decision to allow hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims to return to the Gaza Strip last Wednesday
