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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip. Shaul Mofaz, a former defense chief who is now number two in the centrist Kadima party, raised the prospect of talks with Hamas -- an idea rejected by both Israel and Hamas for years -- to restart the long-stalled peace process with the Palestinians. Israel and Western powers have said in the past they would engage Hamas if it agreed to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept interim peace deals, terms ... Read Full Story
TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on Sunday with the U.S. Middle East peace drive in crisis over a threat by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stand down. Though Abbas's potential departure could mean the loss of a pivotal partner for Middle East peace talks, U.S. President Barack Obama has not said whether he will hold talks with Netanyahu while he is in Washington. Spokesmen for Netanyahu said the main reason for his four-day trip, which will include a Paris stopover for talks with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, was a speech on Monday to a forum of ... Read Full Story
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of a U.N. investigation that accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, Richard Goldstone, has said he is disappointed there has been such a "lukewarm" reaction to his findings in the United States. The report by Goldstone, a South African jurist, lambasted both sides in the December-January war, which killed up to 1,387 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, but was harsher toward Israel. It gave Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants six months to mount credible investigations or face possible prosecution in The Hague. Both Israel and Hamas denied committing war crimes. "The reactions in the international community were very mixed, ... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm. The tape, titled "To Our People in Pakistan," was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on July 12, IntelCenter said. Excerpts had been aired by the Al Jazeera television network on June 3, it added. Earlier on Friday, IntelCenter had said al-Qaeda's as-Sahab Media had released a new video from bin Laden. In his remarks broadcast by Al Jazeera in June, Saudi-born bin Laden said U.S. President Barack Obama had planted ... Read Full Story
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Hamas said Friday it is allowing Muslims to leave the Gaza Strip on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca after blocking them last year because of a Palestinian political dispute. "The first wave of around 1,000 hajj pilgrims from the Gaza Strip is now traveling to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing," Hamas religious affairs minister Taleb Abu Shaar told AFP. "We are coordinating with our brothers in the (West Bank political capital of) Ramallah to allow 4,500 pilgrims from Gaza to make the pilgrimage this year," he added. Hamas prevented pilgrims from leaving Gaza last year to protest Saudi Arabia's policy of only granting ... Read Full Story
Palestinian President Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas has reached the apex of his value to the Middle East peace process. He knows it and he's betting everything he has. By threatening to quit. This week Abbas, the moderate Fatah party candidate who succeeded Yassir Arafat as head of the Palestinian authority in 2004 and is the US government's most consistent partner in the West Bank, has announced that largely due to Israel's persistent refusals to...  
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If Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas makes good on his declaration that he won't run in the upcoming Palestinian presidential election, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and his enti...  
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Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently asked the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to veto any such proposal, after reports reached Jerusalem of support for such a declaration from major European...  
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My old friend Danny Rubinstein, who has covered the West Bank pretty much since the occupation began, came over Friday afternoon. He had covered this week's expulsion of Palestinian residents from their disputed home in Sheikh Jarrah. He had just... West Bank - Middle East - Palestine - Danny Rubinstein - Sheikh Jarrah  
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The Palestinian leadership outlined a fresh strategy of defiance towards the United States yesterday by announcing its intention to consider a formal abandonment of the Middle East peace process. Just days after Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate president of the Palestinian Authority, announced his intention to quit, his colleagues gave warning that they were prepared to deploy the much feared "nuclear option". Officials in the West Bank told The...  
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Times OnlinePeres leads calls for Abbas to stay onJerusalem PostPresident Shimon Peres urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to remain in office and to work with Israel on a peace agreement. Palestinian children hold banners of Palestinian Authority ...Israel pushes US to reject assertion of PA sovereigntyHa'aretzIsraeli president urges Palestinian leader not to give up peace effortsXinhuaPeres urges Abbas to stay onAFPThe...  
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Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and a founding member of Fatah, one of the main Palestinian factions, Mahmoud Abbas is a former school teacher who has led Palestine during the hardest of times.  
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