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Haaretz - Elections 2003
Thu., February 15, 2007 Shvat 27, 5767 | Israel Time: 00:16 (GMT+2) | … Sharon crushes the left; Likud wins 38 seats - double Labor’s: PM vows to set up national unity …
Hamas doubles force, defying Abbas - Focus on Israel/Palestinians …
… civil war in the wake of Abbas call last month for fresh parliamentary and presidential elections … Western governments want Abbas to triumph over Hamas, which the United States and Israel regard as …
Hamas Gets the Upper Hand (Time Magazine)
The Islamic militant group will dominate a new Palestinian government, and that won’t make the U.S. and Israel — or Mahmoud Abbas — very happy
New Palestinian Coalition May Complicate Rice’s Peacemaking Bid (Bloomberg via Yahoo! News)
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, having just clinched a six-nation agreement aimed at scrapping North Korea’s nuclear-bomb program, heads to Israel today to try to make progress on an even more intractable issue: the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.
Palestinian factions agree to truce - Focus on Israel …
Hamas and Fatah have been locked in a power struggle since the Islamic militant group defeated Fatah in legislative elections last January. Abbas Fatah party, which seeks peace with Israel …
Palestinians set Jan. 9 for elections - Yasser Arafat - MSNBC.com …
Palestinian leaders have called on the international community to pressure Israel to allow the elections to proceed smoothly. Israel has dozens of checkpoints throughout the West Bank, restricting …
Iranian leader: Israel will be wiped out - Mideast/N …
Iran s hard-line president said Tuesday that Israel will one day be wiped out as the … He called for elections among Jews, Christians and Muslims so the population of Palestine can …
Analysis: Israel, Turkey probe closer ties (UPI)
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 14 (UPI) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will try to expand Israel’s strategic relations with Turkey during a two-day visit to Ankara that starts Wednesday.
Al-Qaida No. 2 releases new tape - International Terrorism …
He said these concessions began with Hamas’ signing “the truce” with Israel last year, then the group took part in the January elections “based on a secular constitution,” and recognized Abbas as the …
NFTY - Israel Elections
In the first Israel election since Ariel Sharon’s abrupt departure from the political scene, Israelis confirmed his deputy, Ehud Olmert, as prime minister.