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• DTN News: Israel Angers U.S. By Approving New West Bank Homes

  BNET - 2009-11-17

  DTN News: Israel Angers U.S. By Approving New West Bank Homes *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media ~ Reuters NSI News Source Info JERUSALEM, Israel - November 18, 2009: Israel triggered a fresh rift with Washington over settlement building on Tuesday by approving the building of...

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• DTN News: Palestinians Vow New Push For War Crimes Report

  BNET - 2009-10-12

  DTN News: Palestinians Vow New Push For War Crimes Report *Source: DTN News / Int'l Media By Amy Teibel NSI News Source Info JERUSALEM, Israel - October 12, 2009: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday he is pushing for a vote on a United Nation's report that...

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• Abbas strengthened by Fatah conference

  - 2009-08-11

  RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP â?? Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas emerged strengthened from his Fatah party convention at a time reconciliation talks with arch-rival Hamas and peace efforts with Israel are bogged down.Fatah unanimously voting to retain him as its leader, while rejuvenating the governing body in a separate vote at...

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• Fatah elects new leaders hoping to end internal strife

  - 2009-08-10

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah faction elected new leaders for the first time in 20 years on Monday, hoping they can invigorate a party weakened by internal rifts and its rout from the Gaza Strip by its Hamas rivals.Vote counting started early Monday after about...

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• Fatah electing new leaders in hope of ending internal strife

  - 2009-08-10

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party was electing new leaders for the first time in 20 years on Monday, in the hope they can invigorate a faction weakened by internal rifts and its rout from the Gaza Strip by its Hamas rivals.Vote-counting, which had been...

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• Fatah overhauls party leadership: official

  - 2009-08-10

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party has overhauled its leadership, electing a raft of new members to its ruling body in its first election in 20 years, a party official said Tuesday.The party congress returned only three incumbent members of the Central Committee, with 15...

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• Fatah wraps up congress with Israel split

  - 2009-08-10

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? The Palestinian Fatah party on Wednesday wrapped up a landmark congress after electing a new generation of leaders including a jailed militant whose fate is dividing Israeli leaders.The party's first convention in 20 years was all but over, although officials are yet to count votes...

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• Fatah keeps 'right to resist,' angering Israel

  - 2009-08-09

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement renewed its charter for the first time since the launch of the Middle East peace process in 1991 but Israel reacted angrily on Sunday to its insistence on the right to resist.At its first congress in 20 years and...

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• 'Peace process' will inevitably fail without a new approach

  - 2009-08-07

  When it comes to peace in the Middle East, we've tried just about everything and nothing has worked. And if you believe that, there's a bridge over the River Jordan I want to sell you. The truth is that one American administration after another has...

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• Fatah party to renew leadership in 20-year first

  - 2009-08-07

  BETHLEHEM, West Bank AFP â?? Fatah members were preparing on Friday to elect a new leadership for the first time in 20 years, hoping to breathe new life into the secular Palestinian party weakened by infighting, mismanagement and its trouncing by the Islamist Hamas movement.Delegates to the party's congress in...

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