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So if Israel simply walked out of the territories, the flow of weapons into a future Palestinian state would be unchecked.

He said the withdrawal was the result of patience and sacrifice of the Palestinian people.

America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.

How will China, through its own efforts, help the Palestinian people get out of difficulties?

Then, once Israel's aerial attacks began, Egypt distinguished itself by shooting Palestinian civilians trying to flee across that border.

When a fellow teacher is arrested as a CIA spy by the sinister Palestinian security forces, Yussef ignores advice to leave.

From the Palestinian perspective, the scurrying for archaeological evidence to justify a people's sense of belonging misses the point.

He said recognition of Israel was key and the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, had been bold.

His effort to build relationships, not walls, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is especially amazing in light of his own past.

Palestinian women as a group have never been willing to stand up to the men who send their children out to be suicide bombers.

The matter of Israeli settlements in the West Bank is one of the key sticking points in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He said the real discussions should be taking place between the rival Palestinian factions.

Hamas confirmed that its members had been arrested and accused the Palestinian authority of colluding with Israel to wipe it out.

Since the suicide bombing in Jerusalem over a week ago, Abbas has suspended talks with Palestinian militant groups, including Hamas.

Even if it was a Palestinian group who fired the rockets, Hizbullah would have to at least have turned a blind eye to allow the rocket fire.

From a stunning Palestinian lunch to Sabbath dinner was the kind of cross-cultural pleasure that I wish more people could enjoy.

Clinton says talks can be concluded within a year, with an aim to create a Palestinian state next to Israel.

A spokesman for the Palestinian militant group Hamas says they are ready to resume dialogue with the Palestinian National Authority.

For the next two days, the Palestinian prime minister will be hosting a Trade and Investment Forum in London.

Some of the Palestinian leader's aides, however, insisted that this time he would go.

Larijani said the United States on the Palestinian issue not only reflects the strength of the weakened, and "unable to move in Iraq. "

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any Palestinian group, apparently to avoid being targeted by Israeli retaliation.

Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, took the line of the Wall as his definition of what might be the borders of a Palestinian state.

Neither was the freedom of the Palestinian prisoners a reflection of any support for the Palestinian cause.

Golan, now 27, said the "most shaky moment" of her military service came during a search for weapons in a Palestinian home.

An elected Palestinian Authority ready to renounce violence would claim international legitimacy.

The procession is an annual event in support of the Palestinian people, and the bomber struck as he passed through a crowded market area.

Ma'ruf said Israel was trying to cover up for killing thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

None of her predecessors since 1967 have managed it, but she would have to stop, once and for all, Jewish building on Palestinian land.

In an interview on Israeli television, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he is ready to start indirect peace talks.

One of his first moves as prime minister was to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority after Hamas's victory in legislative elections.

Palestinian leaders welcomed the vote, calling it a historic moment that returns to Palestinians some of their rights.

That's why we always try to have at least two guides, one Israeli and one Palestinian, plus many local guides all along the way.

Obama said "the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own" and that vision had been delayed for too long.

He said he came away encouraged, adding that even though talks on the parameters of a Palestinian state are just beginning, hopes are high.

In Ramallah, a spokesman for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed the result but said he wanted to see action.

He said Israel cannot halt building in the settlements while illegal Palestinian construction, which he described as "rampant, " is ignored.

Because so far, the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept a Palestinian state, if it meant accepting a Jewish state alongside it.

But, before that, as first lady, she called for an independent Palestinian state at a time when it was not Clinton administration policy.

He said "Shalit will not see the light of day" until Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

The Israelis would also be able to maintain their early-warning station in the West Bank with a Palestinian liaison presence.

"We feel the pain of every Palestinian child, " he said. "Any shout of pain. "

Then, it was a Palestinian assassination attempt on an Israeli diplomat in London.

This means that half of the Palestinian movement would not be party to any deal and will try hard to sabotage one.

Pollsters, who have not always been accurate in their predictions of Palestinian voting, say Fatah should win.

You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Everyone knows that this will have to include sharing Jerusalem with a Palestinian state and handing over the bulk of the West Bank.

The spectre of a return to widespread Palestinian suicide-bombings and a third intifada looms. That would be a disaster.

As part of his prepared remarks, Rai also spoke strongly for Palestinian refugees and said Israel needs to withdraw from parts of Lebanon.

Palestinian demonstrators protesting the Israeli military incursion in Gaza clashed with the police outside the Israeli Embassy in London.

Younis Salah says it will take more than a command from Palestinian leaders to stop him from going to work at a settlement.

However, he said Palestinian violence against Israel could doom any chance for a future Palestine.

A year later, it bloodily ousted Fatah from the Gaza Strip, the smaller chunk of a proposed Palestinian state.

With regard to (Palestinian recognition of) a Jewish state, or whatever, this has never been an issue.

Palestinian officials accused Mr. Netanyahu of trying to divert attention from the settlement freeze.

He said Israel will not negotiate with the Palestinian government supported by Hamas or House of Palestinian refugees.

Aso is in the evening with Palestinian National Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during a telephone conversation he said.

It has been battling up to 200 Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Mediterranean city of Tripoli.

Israelis, who do not recognize a Palestinian state, always drop the word 'National'.

It was the first time the Israeli Prime Minister has called for the creation of a Palestinian state since taking office this year.

But there were "cheers for the children of wars" , as the Iraqi and Palestinian teams were given a warm reception.

The Quartet called for a resumption of peace talks in a month, and a framework peace agreement on Palestinian statehood by the end of 2012.

But neither his American nor his Palestinian nor even his Israeli interlocutors find him easy to interpret.

sometimes, the widely felt yearning for a Palestinian or Israeli Gandhi seems proof of the moral superiority of his nonviolent politics.

It's her first trip to Jerusalem as our top diplomat and she talked just a short time ago about the creation of a Palestinian State.

Israeli-Palestinian conflictPresident Obama said the Palestinians must renounce violence, and Israel must cease settlement activity.

When Yasser Arafat returned to Gaza in 1994 to set up the Palestinian Authority, he brought a sense of order, security and hope.

One artist has written CTRL ALT DELETE, as if to reboot decades of Israeli-Palestinian mistrust and bloodshed.

Palestinian flag flutters in the wind while the sun sets behind the skyline of Gaza city Wednesday.

A well-governed democracy "is the way for the Palestinian people to realize their goal of a Palestinian state, " he said.

Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 and now lives and works in London and Berlin.

We are of the view that it is a lawful appeal for the Palestinian people to found a capital on the occupied Arab territory.

He said to meet Mahmoud Abbas, the President of Palestinian authority.

Israel will not be the last country to welcome a Palestinian state as a new member of the United Nations.

The Palestinian Authority earlier said talks would be "very difficult" if the plans for the homes were not rescinded.

Bethlehem Mayor Victor Betarseh said he hopes that Christmas next year will be celebrated in an independent Palestinian state.

I tell Israel, he said, that the arrogance of power will not subdue the Palestinian people and will not bring peace. . .

Also pictured are Palestinian men left by the side of the road for hours at a time.

Some European diplomats cling to the idea that the Palestinian issue remains at the heart of the instability in the Middle East.

A return to the negotiating table would not be in the interest of the rival Palestinian militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip.

US President Barack Obama has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to act with a sense of urgency in restarting stalled peace talks.

But one of the many perplexities about this ideal is that about 20% of the population of the Jewish state would be Palestinian.

"Israel will contact us today (18th) to confirm whether to hold a meeting tonight or tomorrow, " said the Palestinian official.

Mr Netanyahu and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, both say they are ready to resume talks without preconditions.

Palestinian police armed with assault rifles patrolled Manger Square, but that did not bother Monty Luker of South Carolina.

Her bait is a promise to the Arab world that she will put more American muscle behind the creation of a Palestinian state.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have declared a ceasefire and say they're giving Israeli forces one week to leave the territory.

She was invited to Palestinian Motorsport Federation races after she was spotted tearing around the West Bank city of Ramallah.

In Washington, Israel's friends in Congress are pressing for a ban on US aid to any Palestinian government that includes Hamas.

As if to rub salt in Palestinian wounds, Mr Netanyahu attended a tree-planting ceremony inasettlement when Mr Mitchell was still in town.

It was a means of strengthening Palestinian resistance by freeing the self and gaining confidence.

Meanwhile, there was more than enough still to do on the Palestinian track.

With no agreement on an alternative, the Palestinian Authority might plunge into a crisis.

One hopes that the Palestinian internal bloodshed will come to an end soon and with it the dawn of freedom.

The United States backs the Palestinian demand that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Maine (Reuters) - President Bush on Sunday said the world must "deal harshly" with the Palestinian militant group Hamas .

Palestinian driver has been shot dead in Jerusalem after allegedly slamming his tractor into a police car and a bus.

"The Palestinian security systems have no superiority, in terms of armament over Hamas, " said Mr. Nasser.

The action comes in response to a weekend Palestinian attack in which two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third was captured.

In order for this deal to hold he must be in a position to offer the Palestinian people something concrete.

Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hiyeh said the deal is a great achievement for the Palestinian people.

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Israeli assault on Gaza will only bring more violence.

Summary: Israel sees the Palestinian bid for recognition at the United Nations as a dire threat to its interests.

Jordan was the first stop on a Middle East trip in which he also visited Israel and the Palestinian territories.

The Palestinian attempt to impose a settlement through the United Nations will not bring peace.

A year later, in Gaza, Hamas violently ousted Fatah, its secular rival that had long ruled the Palestinian roost.

You will not think anymore about Jerusalem or the Palestinian cause or anything, the only thing you think about is how to get it.

Many ordinary Israelis will tell you that the Palestinian response to Israeli concessions has been one of unremitting violence.

The Bush administration says it has been consistently engaged in trying to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli crisis.

The presence of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories is one of the main sticking points in peace negotiations.

Though there is no evidence that the general Palestinian mood is becoming violent, they discern a distinct rise in radicalism.

The truce calls for Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at Israel, and for Israel to open crossings into Gaza.

For the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, the outlook for acquiring a proper state looks as bleak as ever, at least in the short run.

Rice said that much has changed since that time but that it is still important for the Palestinian economy to be able to operate.

Its prime condition was that talks be based on a Palestinian "consensus" , a euphemism for including them in the diplomatic fray.

Some years before, Juliano Mer-Khamis had worked with these boys in his mother's theatre in Jenin, in the Palestinian West Bank.

By the by, the Israeli prime minister declared that any Palestinian state would have to be completely encircled by Israeli forces.

The shift was to utter the word "State" when it came to the prospect of Palestinian self-rule.

However last night, Washington said Netanyahu's speech was "an important step forward" , because of the mention of a Palestinian state.

With the Palestinian government unable to help, the town is sliding deep into debt.

It should be kept in mind when Palestinian leaders unwisely turn an end-of-September deadline for a settlement freeze into an ultimatum.

She says the best way for that to happen is for Hamas and other Palestinian militants in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israel.

Past Israeli efforts to put Palestinian terrorists on a more peaceful path have emphasized getting them married.

Two years ago, I publicly committed to a solution of two states for two peoples: A Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state.

And even if it does not, a new dynamic in Palestinian politics, generated by the revolution in Egypt, is taking shape.

Q: Palestinian President Abbas has formally summited Palestine's application to the United Nations to be a full UN member.

And everyone else treats the Palestinian-Israelis as suspicious collaborators because their grandparents did not flee in 1948.

I stood before my people, and I told you it wasn't easy for me, and I said. . . "I will accept a Palestinian state. "

The road map calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State that lives next to Israel in a good neighborhood relation.

Diplomatic overtures to Iran might be linked to a renewed push for progress on the Palestinian question.

Beijing famous fight Mani, cool climate, which can be Yuanwang peak age of the Palestinian smoke Mimang are volcanic.

Human Rights Watch says Palestinian children are in a fact that's been deprived of their right to an education.

The Associated Press quoted military sources said the day is the Palestinian "catastrophe day" 63 anniversary.

The second step calls for an international conference that draws up the creation of a Palestinian state.

Currently, the PLO as the Palestinian representative at the United Nations with a non-voting observer status.

Arafat in an odd way won now as Israel is pressured into creating a Palestinian state and backing out of their settlement endeavors.

But Israeli leaders say the Jewish state would be doomed if Palestinian refugees are allowed to return.

Now fate has put the Europeans at the centre of the showdown over the Palestinian demand for full membership of the United Nations.

He said hope will remain, adding that the Palestinian people cannot live without it.

As Britain's Tony Blair recently pointed out, at the heart of the region's politics stands the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The repeated fighting in Jerusalem has raised concerns over the possible outbreak of a third intifada, or popular Palestinian uprising.

At least four people have been killed as rival Palestinian factions battled today in Gaza.

Ashrawi said the Israeli-Palestinian impasse is being used by extremists to recruit terrorists and sow instability.

Mitchell said once the Palestinian issue is resolved, the U. S. will push for a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world.

Palestinian analyst Wadia Abu Nasser says Mr. Abbas is not strong enough to take on the powerful Islamic militant group, Hamas.

We recognise that a Palestinian state must be big enough to be viable, independent and prosperous.

Ehud Olmert, a former Israeli prime minister, previously negotiated the release of a larger number of Palestinian prisoners with Mr Abbas.

Long trusted with most sensitive matters like the Israeli-Palestinian talks, Mr. Suleiman is well connected in both Washington and Tel Aviv.

It was the second tragedy to strike the same Palestinian family at the weekly demonstrations against the security fence.

The goal of the peacemaker is to reach eventually a peace agreement, leading to the establishment of a Palestinian state.

I decided to paste in eight Israeli and Palestinian cities and on both sides of the wall.

hinted Israel would be prepared to go to intercept a humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian Gaza Strip fleet.

Earlier, Secretary Rice met with Israeli leaders and with the heads of the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams in Jerusalem.

The United Nations said it was gravely concerned at the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia.

Five students, armed with a pocket-torch, stand guard at the hilltop entrance of the small Palestinian village of Kfar Qusra.

The Palestinian leader spoke through a translator as he accepted the honor in Oslo, Norway.

The prosecutor also said a battalion commander had been disciplined for allowing his soldiers to use a Palestinian as a human shield.

Manger Square was decked out with Christmas trees and lights and Palestinian flags.

Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, Israel has declared Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.

But Iran has indeed exploited the Palestinian cause in its bigger competition with America for dominance of the region as a whole.

Putting those issues at the top of the agenda was a Palestinian condition for the talks' resumption.

But the alarming increase in the number of civilians among the Palestinian dead has jolted Israeli policymakers.

His only other address was an Israeli prison, where he served time for being a leader of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

And without the backing of leading European democracies, an enhanced Palestinian status in the General Assembly would look empty.

Palestinian firefighters have joined international efforts to put out the huge forest fire in northern Israel. .

The Israeli navy shot and killed four members of a militant Palestinian group off the coast of the Gaza Strip.

The bank blamed the problem on Israeli restrictions on Palestinian movement and trade.

Many observers say that as long as the West Bank and Gaza remain divided, the creation of a Palestinian state will be impossible.

But if it wants peace it must face the decision it has avoided for 40 years: withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories.

In Gaza, Jamal al Khudari, who heads the Palestinian Committee for Lifting the Siege, said the destination is clear.

He pointed out that the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks should be to achieve the ultimate goal of good neighborliness and friendship.

Mr Netanyahu is refusing, after a ten-month freeze, to stop Israelis building settlements on the West Bank, the core of a Palestinian state.

If he sticks to his word, the prospect of meaningful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the near future is zero.

Ignoring anxieties in western capitals, Turkey has engaged with the Palestinian Hamas and with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbollah in Lebanon.

Dissension among Palestinian factions has undermined the prospect for a new accord as well.

Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti says that means Israel's two-state solution is no solution at all.

Israel fears if it hands full security control of Jenin to Mr. Abbas, Palestinian suicide bombers will soon return to Israeli cities.

A display of a dentist's office inside a Jenin museum depicting daily Palestinian life is adjusted by a worker affiliated with the museum.

The Palestinian Authority hopes that a severely weakened Hamas would be forced by Egypt into a process of reconciliation with Fatah.

Israel is prepared to sit down today and negotiate peace with the Palestinian Authority.

Mr. Mubarak said Egypt would not fully open its border with Gaza unless the Palestinian Authority is in control.

In Syria he recognises an amorphous Muslim sense of "grievance" , but not the millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.

It was a day of intense diplomatic activity, as Palestinian negotiators met with top Egyptian and Arab League officials.

When the Palestinians saw that they were identified in the agreement as the Palestinian delegation, not the PLO, they balked.

The U. N. Secretary-General is urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to hold intensive talks to resolve their core issues.

We hope the Palestinian side will pick up the ball and we will indeed see a restarting of the Middle East peace process.

The Israelis, reassured by the disappearance of their biggest foes, agree to the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

Mr. Peri said Palestinian collaborators might be given money for expenses or a small salary, but "you'll never be a rich guy. "

As long as the Israel-Palestine issue is unsolved, his Palestinian population will inevitably be accused of a dubious dual allegiance.

Since then, the beginning of the Palestinian opposition to Israel's invasion of the armed struggle.

But to keep the militants out of the settlement zone, the army has blocked the Palestinian road to the sea.

The United States' top diplomat has concluded a peace mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories. But she has little to show for it.

So it's been keeping up the pressure sending tanks onto Arafat's territory, killing four Palestinian policemen in a raid on the West Bank.

With the realization of a meeting between Palestinian and Israeli leaders this year, bilateral relations are continuously improving.

The United Nations says this community is already one of the poorest among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

Unfortunately, Israel is cracking down on nonviolent Palestinian and Israeli activists and too many of the journalists here are ignoring it.

An American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent, he was deeply dismayed by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but proud of his Army job.

His captors said they would trade him for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

The U. S. hopes that going slow may allow Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume without a confrontation at the world body.

The company security guards to high school supplies mainly to the Palestinian-French operation. Delta. DuPont. North. JSP, and other brands.

The United States has vetoed a draft United Nation resolution calling on Israel not to exile Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.

Then there was Aron Kader, who was the Palestinian-American. And then there was me, the Iranian-American of the group.

Little interested in politics, but with an aspiring doctor's concern for Palestinian suffering, Dogan won a lottery to go.

In the age of suicide bombing, however, too many Palestinian mothers take pride in the deaths of their children.

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed and thousands injured before Israel pulled out in mid-January.

Mitchell responded that the U. S. sees a Palestinian state as the only way to peace.

"He sounds like an Israeli diplomat sometimes, " says Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestinian negotiator.

A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israel's new government must be committed to a two-state solution.

Even if this meeting fails to push forward a Palestinian state, it will at least put on display a wide coalition against Iran.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose people were the subject and focus of the summit, called for Palestinian unity.

Rosoff also the day of his speech to the Palestinian national identity to the United Nations to seek support.

If the PA collapsed, Israel would be forced to take responsibility for the Palestinian territories, which it is reluctant to do.

But a Palestinian reader still reads a novel by a Jewish author, and vice versa, connecting and empathizing with the narrator.

To help restore conditions following a fire, the UN supplies Palestinian refugees with emergency supplies and assistance.

The killings take the total toll in Palestinian lives since the Israelis launched their assault on the Gaza Strip 11 days ago to above 600.

The "realists" also advise putting pressure on Israel to deal in a more forthcoming way with the Hamas-dominated Palestinian government.

The Palestinian president said it was also irresponsible for Palestinian leaders to promote conflict while they and their families are safe.

Meanwhile, Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel dramatically dropped on Wednesday as well.

HE has lived through countless dangers but time may be running out for the Palestinian leader , Yasser Arafat .

Palestinian militants fired at least 12 rockets at Israel and Israeli warplanes targeted Hamas rocket launchers.

Tens of thousands of Christians visited the West Bank town of Bethlehem for Christmas celebrations hosted by the Palestinian Authority.

Many Palestinian scientists strongly oppose scientific cooperation with Israelis, regardless of its potential benefits.

These would be swapped for unsettled territory elsewhere, which would become part of the new Palestinian state.

Mr. Netanyahu told the Cabinet that Israel would respond harshly to any Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks.

The chairman of the committee, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, was re-elected by a show of hands.

But Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by the Palestinian version of al-Qaeda.

Later, the Palestinian people on May 15 as a national "disaster day" to commemorate the year of the war and national fate.

During the Palestinian intifada (uprising) that fizzled out in 2004, Hamas sent scores of suicide-bombers to blow up Israelis.

Which hardly reflects either the democratic values or Palestinian unity Blair and his sponsors claim to be promoting.

Tensions hied - tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lacked lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

The talks in Damascus were feared to have collapsed over differences on policy with Israel and control of the Palestinian security forces.

Palestinian U. N. envoy Riyad Mansour told reporters that his government had hoped for a different outcome Friday, but is not giving up.

The first would be for Israel to establish a working relationship with a Palestinian unity government.

The Israeli army is investigating the death of a Palestinian woman after she inhaled tear gas at a West Bank demonstration on Friday.

Palestinians are asking if a U. S. -backed two-state solution is still possible, with a Palestinian state and Israel co-existing peacefully.

In this impotence lies the point of the Palestinian occupation.

Ramallah, West Bank, June 16, 2009--A young Palestinian refugee in the Al-Amari camp flinches as other boys point toy guns at him.

He mechanically repeated his commitment to the vision of a two-state solution - establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the U. N. General Assembly on Friday. Afterward, Mr.

During the First World War, the British occupation of Palestinian, into the post-war Britain "to mandate. "

He added that Israel would continue to control the airspace of any future Palestinian state.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said he believes President Obama has a clear choice.

A host of other films on Gaza betrayed a fascination with Sderot's Palestinian neighbours that Israel has locked out for years.

The international Middle East Quartet voiced strong support for the new set of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that began this month.

I urge all parties to pressure Hamas to turn away from terror, and to support legitimate Palestinian leaders working for peace.

Netanyahu was offering a partial freeze, not including new settlements in East Jerusalem, the desired capital of a future Palestinian state.

Spanish officials said the institution could not participate because it was built on occupied Palestinian land.

An Israeli soldier prays close to the border with Lebanon, the day after troops opened fire on a Palestinian refugee protest.

Palestinian officials say the first order of business during the four-month talks is charting the borders of a future Palestinian state.

He is scheduled to be in the West Bank on Tuesday for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.