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He said the Palestinians want negotiations based on where talks with the previous Israeli administration left off.

He said there cannot be peace unless the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

Palestinians had not been allowed to develop any new production wells in the West Bank since the 1967 war.

Netanyahu said it was a " fundamental condition" to end the conflict that the Palestinians accept Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

The killings came just a few days after an Israeli army incursion into Gaza that killed at least 110 Palestinians.

Palestinians have access to only a fifth of the water supply, while Israel, which controls the area, takes the rest, the bank said.

Along the border with Lebanon, several Palestinians were shot to death while trying to cross the Israeli boundary.

She hoped that this would bring the Palestinians back to negotiations, which they had quit after the end of a previous freeze.

He said that if there was no request for the vote, or the US exercised its veto, then the Palestinians would go to the general assembly.

President Bush is trying to make amends with Palestinians who are weary of his stance on peace in the Middle East.

But Palestinians say they cannot get building permits and that Israel is trying to drive Arab residents out of Jerusalem.

He said from that from his perspective, talks with the Palestinians could begin tomorrow.

He said Israel also wants the Palestinians to recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

An Israeli mayor on the front lines of the conflict with the Palestinians is calling for a truce with Islamic militants.

He said it is now in the best interest of Israelis to make a serious attempt to make peace with the Palestinians.

At least five Palestinians have been killed and several wounded in an Israeli air attack on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

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

The Israelis and Palestinians are no closer to a settlement today than when he took office nine months ago.

"They shoot at the Palestinians like this on a daily basis. You have only heard about this because, for once, they shot at an Israeli. "

International mediators have been trying to re-start direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. But the efforts have stalled.

Abed Rabu said the most important thing for the Palestinians is to see what the United States and Israel plan to do.

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

But Israel would not transfer control of the Holy City and neighborhoods around it to the Palestinians, he said.

By going to the General Assembly, he adds, the Palestinians will show the world there is extensive support for the establishment of a state.

He said the core issue of the conflict is not settlements, but the Palestinians' refusal to accept a Jewish state in any borders.

First, he said, the Palestinians must explicitly recognize Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

If the Palestinians got the right to vote, given their higher birthrate, within a few decades Israel would no longer be a Jewish state.

On these terms, France and Britain might be able to support the Palestinians, and the German government could abstain.

"Palestinians have no say in the Israeli development of these shared, trans-boundary, water resources, " he said.

Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief since 1993, has been a frequent visitor to Israel and a mediator in its conflict with the Palestinians.

The Palestinians like to say, accurately or not, that the wall can be seen from outer space.

He said that for the Palestinians, an agreement will be meaningful only if it gives them self-determination.

I did not believe what I heard, it sounded as if the Palestinians were occupying Israel.

He had been heartfelt and genuine toward the Palestinians in his speech; now he used body language to reassure his doubters back in Israel.

The Palestinians have cocked the gun; the Europeans are trying to put it in a bulletproof box.

But Sarkozy also said the Palestinians were mistaken to seek full recognition as a state at the security council.

The President said the rights of the Palestinians can be won only by peaceful means.

The day the conversation took place, the Palestinians announced that they would not seek membership of any other UN agency.

Rice said the Bush administration will ask Congress for $400 million in economic support for Palestinians for the next fiscal year.

And in Gaza, officials say air strikes have killed at least 130 Palestinians since the conflict began a week ago.

There was no empathy for the Palestinians, he only spoke of the Israeli problems, " she said. "

But as president, Mr. Obama seems to be indicating that he plans to move quickly to work with Israel and the Palestinians toward peace.

Yet, these ties do not translate into Moscow pushing the Palestinians into a settlement with the Israelis.

She said that she also saw elderly Palestinians being humiliated on the streets, "and I thought these could be my parents or grandparents" .

He said the Palestinians could not form an army or control their own airspace, or sign military agreements with other states.

But Egypt and the Palestinians may not be prepared to let Israel off the hook.

That would not need Security Council approval and elevate the Palestinians' U. N. status to that of the Vatican.

The young man clearly felt that the Palestinians had endured injustice at Israel's hands. "We are guilty, " he said. "They want a country. "

Thousands of Palestinians have been ordered to leave their homes or forced to flee the fighting.

But even in the event of Israel "winning" in Gaza, a hundred years of war suggest that the Palestinians cannot be silenced by brute force.

Netanyahu said he would meet any Arab leader to talk about peace and called on the Palestinians to immediately restart peace talks.

Toward the end of his presidency, President Clinton tried to make a final push to forge a compromise between Israel and the Palestinians.

He said Jerusalem will not be up for negotiation in any talks he has with the Palestinians.

Palestinians respond that Mr Netanyahu is not ready to negotiate a two-state agreement.

Palestinians ran toward the home of a Hamas military leader after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Beit Lahia in Gaza.

In homilies to Palestinians, he called for the building of a culture of peace and a rejection of hatred, anger, and violence.

She and many in her circle were raised in the Likud. They moved with Mr Sharon to an acceptance of the Palestinians' right to statehood.

He talks, albeit vaguely, of his desire to make peace with his neighbours, presumably including Palestinians.

But privately, he is trying to mend fences with Washington and pull the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.

One of his demands, that the Palestinians must first recognise Israel as a Jewish state, seems intended merely to prevent talks restarting.

He said UN staff vetted Palestinians seeking shelter at their facilities to make sure militants were not taking advantage of them.

Mr Netanyahu said he would take unspecified "concrete steps" that could lead to direct talks between his government and the Palestinians.

The Israelis, for instance, could put an end to a hundred years of futile hostilities by buying somewhere for the Palestinians.

He said any attempt by the Palestinians to bypass the talks with unilateral steps is "unrealistic" and would harm the peace process.

The Palestinians cannot and should not accept the sort of state that Mr Netanyahu is offering.

In Jerusalem, Israeli office worker Ziva Gazit agreed, although she said she supports a separate state for the Palestinians.

He said in Cairo that the plight of the Palestinians was intolerable, but the Palestinians are still stateless.

The Israeli army said the air strike targeted four Palestinians who were planting a bomb and all four were hit.

Hamas, he said, must end violence and recognize past agreements between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

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

Compared to Muslim Palestinians, Christians tend to be wealthier, more educated, and better able to integrate in the Western world.

Netanyahu said the Palestinians were in conflict with Israel long before settlement construction began in 1967.

But its loneliness, partly self-inflicted, is making it a worse place, not just for the Palestinians but also for its own people.

In Tunis , Arabian foreign ministers have ended a two-day meeting with a strong statement support for the Palestinians.

He said Fatah supports the peace process, but he warned that if diplomacy fails, the Palestinians could return to armed resistance.

Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.

But there is no sign for now that either the Palestinians or the Israelis are ready to compromise on their position.

Many Palestinians have turned out for the funeral of a Hamas military leader who was assassinated yesterday by Israel.

There will be no solution in Palestine that does not take account of the rights of the Palestinians, weak as they may appear.

And Israel must also live up to its obligation to ensure that Palestinians can live and work and develop their society.

Yesterday, he made his case for it, first to Palestinians, then to Israelis.

Tensions over the eviction orders sparked clashes between Jews and Palestinians in the town in the last few days.

But he questions the utility of battling militarily against the Israelis when the results hurt Palestinians more than the enemy.

United Nations spokesman, Christopher Gunness, told the BBC that at least four Palestinians have been killed.

By negotiation and reconciliation, said Mr Abbas, he would ensure that the Palestinians speak with one voice. "Leave it to us. "

We abhor the creeping delegitimisation and demonisation of Israel. But we also believe that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own.

Doves think the Jewish state will never be safe unless the Palestinians have the satisfaction of a state of their own.

A policy of trying to imprison the Palestinians has left their jailer strangely besieged.

There used to be three relevant players in any Middle East peace effort: the Palestinians, Israel and the United States.

Obama is going to be under tremendous pressure to immediately begin pushing the Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate.

Mr Obama said the US bond with Israel was unbreakable but described the Palestinians' plight as "intolerable" .

He said all the roads are blocked and Egyptian security forces are making Palestinians return to Gaza.

For all the provocations, the Israeli leadership's willingness to see so many Palestinians killed speaks to fearfulness above strength.

Represented at the U. N. by the Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, Palestinians currently possess "Observer Organization" status.

After two years of cajoling Israelis and Palestinians to engage in direct talks, virtually no progress has been made.

He praised Mr. Obama for talking in detail about borders, saying it was an important point for the Palestinians.

But, he said, that when bloodshed began between Israelis and Palestinians, relations deteriorated.

The principle is simple: the Palestinians deserve a state, just as the Israelis do.

He accused the Palestinians of torpedoing the resumption of direct negotiations, which he described as the only way to achieve peace.

In years to come, when this lyric saviour emerges, the Palestinians will discover that their country "can be fashioned only out of poetry" .

So far, there's no sign that Bibi is willing to risk the fall of his government on the Palestinians' behalf.

In its subsequent operations, at least 100 Palestinians, a good half of them civilians, have been killed.

Obama also rejected a push by the Palestinians for U. N. recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem late this year.

Israel says it is in principle willing to uproot settlements, but only as part of a final peace deal with the Palestinians.

When it comes to the Palestinians, that means continuing to put pressure on Hamas to recognise the state of Israel.

Eighty kilometers away from Jerusalem, in the Gaza Strip, a new round of Israeli air strikes killed at least two Palestinians.

He was the worst "friend" the Palestinians ever had, sowing division as he preached unity.

Mr. Netanyahu said peace can only be achieved through direct talks, and he urged the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.

But few Palestinians would risk relying on the Security Council, where the Americans have a veto, to vote for such a state.

He said this has been achieved with Egypt and Jordan, and Israel hopes for similar agreements with both the Palestinians and Syria.

"I think the Palestinians want to achieve a state but they're not prepared yet to make peace with Israel, " he said.

Israel has also allowed in a few sick and wounded Palestinians of a hundreds who fled the violence.

But he said it would show courage in the struggle for peace with the Palestinians based on the two-state solution.

So for pilgrims and Palestinians, it was a Merry Christmas in the little town where it all began.

He said again that the only solution is 2 states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says his country is willing to be a partner in peace with the Palestinians but can't wait forever.

Mr. Netanyahu has not yet publicly committed himself to the two-state solution with the Palestinians favored by the U. S.

However, the restrictions would not apply in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians have already made clear that limitation is not acceptable.

Abbas admitted that the Palestinians into a joint proposal to suffer big international resistance.

If it is not helping the Palestinians to achieve self-determination then it should be dissolved altogether.

His suggestion of a football match between Brazil and a mixed team of Israelis and Palestinians is nice enough.

Before the meeting got underway, Livni said she believed previous negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians had been hurt by publicity.

The Palestinians who watched the march quietly from the sidelines, kept at a safe distance by police, have had still more cause to mourn.

It must have helped, too, that ordinary Palestinians have become increasingly disgusted by the conflict between the two political groups.

A similar campaign was launched by "The Humanitarian Committee for Support of Palestine" to help poor Palestinians in the occupied lands.

Israel responded with air strikes on three Gaza smuggling tunnels. At least two Palestinians were killed.

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

The trick now is to make statehood look real enough to Palestinians for the majority to abandon Hamas's bleak vision of war to the end.

The result is instability, especially in Egypt, where the regime shares responsibility for the sad state of the Gazan Palestinians.

As a part of their strategy, Hamas terrorists often hide within the civilian population, which puts innocent Palestinians at risk.

Lost of Palestinians came to the hospital to pray for him in the candlelight.

They would be provided if the 90-day freeze were agreed but irrespective of a final signed deal with the Palestinians.

Netanyahu said he was ready for talks with the Palestinians but was sceptical about what they could achieve.

The Arab League is due to meet in Libya on Friday to make a final decision on whether the Palestinians should quit the peace talks.

The main issue on which the Palestinians are expecting immediate results is the release of their prisoners.

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

"Young Palestinians need a place like this because they have difficult lives, " she said.

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev urged the Palestinians to abandon the effort for statehood at the U. N. and return to the negotiating table.

We always hope for the better for the Christians, for the Palestinians, and for the sake of our children.

Pope Benedict ended his pilgrimage to the Holy land Friday with a call for peace and an emotional appeal to Israel and Palestinians.

Serious negotiation over the biggest issues can only take place, says Mr Netanyahu, face-to-face between Israelis and Palestinians.

So does the suffering of Palestinians , of undocumented immigrants, and of our abused planet .

A Vatican spokesman urged Israelis and Palestinians to "look for a different way out, even though it seems impossible. "

Palestinians saw this as a deliberate provocation, proving that Israel's government was not interested in resuming peace negotiations.

Ms Roy strives not to speak for Palestinians, but to let their voices reverberate.

A fundamental condition for ending the conflict is the Palestinians recognizing . . . that Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people.

True reconciliation between the Palestinians, once their broad-brush accord is signed, will not be easy (see article).

The democratic wave sweeping across the Arab world won't tolerate US complicity in Israel's decades-long oppression of the Palestinians.

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

Forty years of conflict have convinced most Palestinians and Israelis that they are best off separating into two states.

We condemned Mr Netanyahu for the "arrogance of his assumption that the Palestinians will in the end accept whatever he offers them" .

Rafah is on the Gaza-Egypt border and is the only access for Palestinians to the outside world, without going through Israel.

And unfortunately for Abbas, he will not be able to negotiate a deal that will be acceptable to ordinary Palestinians.

No friend of the Israelis and the Palestinians can fail to be saddened by the continuing tension between your two peoples.

Israel has proposed a land swap that would result in the Palestinians receiving an area of land equivalent to what Israel annexes.

And then came "Area C" , where the Israeli military government runs everything and the Palestinians have no authority.

Palestinians are also being squeezed out of the city, often with the support of settler groups.

UN report said the tunnels had become a lifeline for Gaza's Palestinians because of the Israeli blockade. Thousands work in the tunnels.

Israel, they contend, is the South Africa of the Middle East, its policy towards the Palestinians a form of apartheid.

Do not tell me that Israelis and Palestinians can never make peace.

At the same time Israel's birth had left the isolated "inside" Palestinians searching for a means of expression.

At least 14 protesters were shot when Palestinians sought to cross Israel's borders with Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza.

In recent years the Palestinians have usually been able to pick their olives under the protection of the Israeli army and police.

American officials said that direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, stalled since September, would not resume.

He and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met today and also talked about Israel's attempt to negotiate peace with Palestinians.

The Palestinians said that until settlement expansion stops, resuming peace talks with Israel would be a waste of time.

But would that provide the basis of a ruling coalition on the centre-left with the clout to cut a deal with the Palestinians?

Two checkpoints in the area had been removed in the last week to ease travel for local Palestinians.

It is still the party the Palestinians elected in 2006 to represent all of them. None of this will be easy.

THE Palestinians are edging closer to getting a recognised state, at least on paper.

Israelis and Palestinians took their arguments to the American people on Sunday in a bid to explain their respective positions.

As relations between Israelis and Palestinians deteriorate, so does the state of the respective societies.

An Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip has killed at least three Palestinians.

The activists got a warm welcome from hundreds of Palestinians as they arrived on shore with humanitarian supplies .

The relationship between the Palestinians and their host was often close to breaking point.

As we strive for a ceasefire, the United States remains deeply concerned about innocent Palestinians and Israelis who are suffering.

On the face of it Palestinians have chosen principle over pragmatism.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the Palestinians not to take unilateral steps toward establishing an independent state.

If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they'd have had their state long ago.

The fierce gun battles rage on, but there are signs that ordinary Palestinians no longer trust their politicians to help bring calm.

The U. S. -brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, meanwhile, are unlikely to conclude this year as Washington has hoped.

The announcement follows a decision on Monday by the United Nations cultural organisation Unesco to grant the Palestinians full membership.

He said that is not as a favor to the Palestinians but to preserve Israel as a democratic, Jewish state.

The Americans and Palestinians want the Israelis to extend a freeze on settlement-building that expires at the end of this month.

He now adds a demand that the Palestinians should not just recognise Israel as a country but as a specifically Jewish state.

The Hamas-Fatah deal is good news, because peace between Palestinians could be a stepping stone on the road to peace with Israel.

So we decided to take portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same jobs -- taxi-driver, lawyer, cooks.

Israel is going on the offensive against a scathing United Nations report about alleged atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

There has been a break in the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

The administration's Middle East envoy George Mitchell is heading back to the region to hold meetings with Israelis and Palestinians.

No one is confident. But most Palestinians and most Israelis are as keen as ever for a breakthrough towards a compromise.

In his book he shows how Israeli policy towards its own Palestinians was formulated in the early years under David Ben-Gurion.

But we also believe that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own.

Palestinians viewed him as a father figure and the leader of their quest for a homeland.

The Palestinians want to build a facility or bring one in, so you are trying to cut through bureaucracy.

The attack is obviously bad for the Palestinians, who will look like they do not have control over the West Bank.

Worst of all, its action has highlighted the inaction of everyone else, especially in light of the mounting plight of the Palestinians.

the Palestinians would have to be compensated, among other things, with swaps of land.

Not good enough, said the Palestinians.

Absent a pledge by Israel to maintain the building moratorium, the Palestinians refused to come to the negotiating table.

Mr. Bush's leadership is needed to buck up the weak Palestinian leader by providing tangible benefits for West Bank Palestinians.

That would take decades, and it may rest more on wishful thinking by Palestinians than a real calculation of political reality.

In the last two years, the Palestinians have begun to build a better life for themselves.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinians' plan to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations is "futile. "

The Palestinians also fear that such an acknowledgment might relegate their Arab-Israeli brethren in Israel as second-class citizens.

In June, in a speech in Cairo, he thrilled the Arab world, including many Palestinians, by promising that America would be more even-handed.

And if it is true, does China think this will encourage Israel to continue its hostility towards the Palestinians?

They should also be mindful of the consequences: for Palestinians and, ultimately, for Israel.

But giving up would be a tragic mistake, as bad for America and Israel as for the Palestinians.

The United States has been conducting indirect talks with the Israelis and Palestinians aimed at restarting direct Middle East peace talks.

Israeli military says an air strike it carried out today in the Gaza Strip has killed three Palestinians.

Rice will also attempt to jump start efforts to negotiate a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

SURVEYS find that an overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews and a sizeable majority of Palestinians still want their own states.

The Palestinians also are demanding a freeze on Israeli settlement construction on land the Palestinians want for a future state.

The cynics say that Israelis and Palestinians are too distrustful of each other, and too divided internally, to forge lasting peace.

The country has gained influence in the Middle East by keeping cordial ties with Iran and standing up for the Palestinians.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded that the Palestinians have refused to resume peace talks despite Israeli concessions.

In particular, there was ongoing violence in the Middle East between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Mr gives the impression that there is no urgency; Israel, he implies, can resist, however much the Palestinians and others huff and puff.

The New York Times frequently buries important articles on issues like climate change, immigration and Palestinians in its back pages.

The Palestinians have suspended peace negotiations with Israel in response to a deadly incursion into the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians would give up the absolute right of return; they had always known they would have to, but they never wanted to admit it.

Most Palestinians who voted for Hamas also, judging by a raft of opinion polls, actually support the notion of two states.

The several hundred thousand Palestinians who reside in Syria may also be turning against him (see article).

Israel is allowing convoys with humanitarian supplies into Gaza and is allowing some Palestinians into Israel for medical treatment.

The Palestinians had a fair election in 2006 but the winners, the Islamists of Hamas, were not allowed to govern.

The United States and the United Nations are urging Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks after a day of unrest in Jerusalem.

According to a 2009 World Bank report, Israelisuse four times as much water per capita as Palestinians, much of it foragriculture.

Inspired by protests against other despots, Palestinians in both territories have been crying for "revolution until we end the division" .

The most radical say, as the Palestinians do, that the idea of an ethnically based state is racist and archaic.

They must recognize Israel and do more to help Palestinians build strong state institutions.

But Netanyahu added that to secure a lasting peace, he believes the Palestinians will have to recognize Israel's permanent legitimacy.

The attack on the aid flotilla came as American-mediated indirect talks between the Israelis and Palestinians are getting underway.

Palestinians and human-rights groups have repeatedly castigated the Israeli army for failing to stop such destruction.

Neither Cairo nor Jordan is willing to take responsibility for the Palestinians or deprive them of their dreams of statehood .

Palestinians say such an annexation would effectively cut the West Bank in two.

By demanding that those places be part of their state, those Palestinians seem not to endorse a "two-state solution" .

Israel continues incursions into Gaza, leaving Palestinians in a humanitarian crisis without fuel, power, food and water.

Tens of thousands of impoverished Palestinians lost jobs in Israel during the past 4. 5 years of fighting.

Now the horns would herald the coming of a peace that would return Jericho to the Palestinians.

But it is worth spelling out what Mr Olmert says he offered, in an account that other senior Palestinians have pretty much verified.

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has launched the first direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two years.

By providing support to the Palestinians, and offering an opening however modest the Israelis, the Arab states could have the same impact.

It was the first time that Daniel Barenboim, a campaigner for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, had visited the territory.

Thousands of pilgrims have joined local Palestinians in Christmas celebrations in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Shas opposes Livni's plan to hand over parts of Jerusalem to the Palestinians under an emerging peace agreement.

Washington's uncritical support of Israel at the expense of Palestinians is perceived by much of the world as egregiously hypocritical.

In recent months, as a goodwill gesture, the Palestinians agreed to restore the place and give renewed access to Jews.

If the Palestinians can be convinced that settlement-building has "stopped" (Mr Obama's word), peace talks may yet resume.

If Livni is elected prime minister, she can be expected to quickly return to the talks with the Palestinians.