Word: olmert
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...move that is likely to bog down upcoming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed off on plans to build more than 1,000 homes inside disputed West Bank territory and in East Jerusalem...
...therefore did not violate the tenets of 2003 U.S.-sponsored initiative, known as the 'Road Map', in which Israel agreed to freeze construction of new Jewish settlements. "This decision pre-dates the government," said Mark Regev, the prime minister's spokesman. But a chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Olmert's decision would undermine Washington's efforts to put the derailed negotiations back on track: "It seems to me the Israelis are determined to put a stick in the wheel of negotiations...
Together with their powerful allies among the right-wing political and religious parties, the religious-nationalist settlers are likely to intensify their opposition to the U.S.-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. It will now be harder, if not impossible, for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to comply with U.S. and Palestinian demands to close down illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank and freeze the expansion of existing settlements...
...cell and that it was a well-organized attack." In either case, it is doubtful that Israel will let these killings go unpunished, which will have the consequence of sending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into yet another downward spiral. Both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the seminary massacre. To avoid riots in Jerusalem, police have banned all Muslim worshippers under the age of 45 from attending the Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount...
...Rice and Abbas both looked grim as they exited their afternoon meeting in Ramallah. A presidential adviser told TIME that Abbas had rebuffed Rice's pleas that he resume negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, broken off as the Palestinian death toll mounted during Israeli ground and air attacks in Gaza. Israel launched its operation in retaliation for a shower of long- and short-range rockets from Palestinian militants...