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Abbas Wednesday
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President Obama failed Wednesday to talk Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas out of seeking full U.N. membership, setting the stage for a U.S. veto that could help shore up Obama's sagging domestic political standing but risk injecting the first serious anti-U.S. unrest into the turmoil racking the Middle East. Plunging into frenzied, high-level diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis, Obama spent about an hour Wednesday evening closeted with Abbas in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in what U.S. officials said was an attempt to persuade Abbas to return to peace talks with Israel that broke down last year.
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The day after, 17 Qassams landed, and the joy evaporated. Politicians and generals were (literally) out of their minds: one politician proposed to "act crazier than them," another proposed to "shell Gaza's urban area indiscriminately for every Qassam launched," a famous professor (who is a little bit deranged) proposed the exercise of "ultimate evil. Palestinians walk past a destroyed section of the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt January 29, 2008. Israel will not stand in the way of Palestinian President [Mahmoud Abbas] taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt as part of a deal to sideline Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave, officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem Bottom: A Palestinian woman returns to Gaza through a destroyed section of the border wa...
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WASHINGTON - Describing his first trip to Israel as both an emotional and an educational experience, U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher checked in by telephone Thursday night from the Sea of Galilee. Fincher and his wife, Lynn, have traveled all over the region since Monday and have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and senior Palestinian officials but not President Mahmoud Abbas, who had a scheduling conflict Wednesday and had to be in Lebanon, Fincher said.
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The hope among Shaw residents that a new, upscale tavern would spark business development has been dealt a major and perhaps final blow now that city officials have denied owners a liquor license after keeping them in limbo for months. The D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Wednesday denied Shaw's Tavern owner Abbas Fathi a license, ruling that he knowingly allowed drinks to be served in his restaurant before receiving licenses.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday he'd rather resign than let extremists block his peace agenda, but he expressed hope the Islamic militant group Hamas would moderate its views if it shared power. However, a Hamas leader ruled out talks with Israel and threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
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While Al-Qaeda linked extremists pose a real threat to Hamas rule, the organization is also facing renewed political opposition from Fatah, affiliated to the PA which rules the West Bank. The PA lost the 2006 legislative elections to Hamas following accusations of corruption. However, Fatah emerged strengthened from its recently held Sixth Revolutionary Conference in Bethlehem where a new and more credible leadership was elected. Hamas lacks good political tacticians. Using the suffering in Gaza to its political advantage is one of its leverage points. The international community is not going to stand by and watch Gazans starve to death and Hamas knows this," [Samir Awad] told IPS. Palestinians greet a Fatah member (C) after his release from a Hamas-run prison in Khan Younis in the sou...
... President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas if elections were held today. This compares to 38 ...
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Abbas calls for Mideast conference OSLO, Norway - Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for an international conference to end his people's conflict with Israel - with the Palestinian president sidestepping the Hamas government and leading the talks himself.
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CAIRO, Egypt Hamas warned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday not to make changes in the government without consulting it the first clear sign the Islamic militant group plans to play hardball as both sides begin to jockey for positions in the new leadership. Exiled political leader Khaled Mashaal reiterated that Hamas would not bow to Arab and international pressure to recognize Israel and that the group once in power would not act to prevent militant attacks on the Jewish state.
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CAIRO, Egypt -- Hamas warned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday not to make changes in the government without consulting it -- the first clear sign the Islamic militant group plans to play hardball as both sides begin to jockey for positions in the new leadership. Exiled political leader Khaled Mashaal reiterated that Hamas would not bow to Arab and international pressure to recognize Israel and that the group -- once in power -- would not act to prevent militant attacks on the Jewish state.
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JERICHO, West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday toured the devastated Jericho prison where Israel spirited away six prisoners, denouncing the raid as an "unforgivable crime. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the six Palestinians, including Ahmed Saadat, leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, will face trial. "They will be indicted according to Israeli law and they will be punished," he said.
