WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a visit to Washington on Sunday to bid farewell to President George W. Bush before the two lame-duck leaders leave office without the Palestinian statehood deal they had sought. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2008 (Reuters) President George W. Bush will meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday to review Middle East peace efforts that the U.S. leader had once hoped would produce an agreement before he left office. ... > full story
GAZA, Nov. 18, 2008 (Reuters) Israel resealed border crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, blaming continued rocket fire at its towns, despite warnings from world aid groups of looming shortages of food and fuel in the coastal territory. ... > full story
JERUSALEM, Nov. 17, 2008 (Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during talks on Monday to release 250 Palestinians prisoners next month, a spokesman for Olmert said. ... > full story
GAZA, Nov. 16, 2008 (Reuters) An Israeli air strike killed four militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he had commissioned a plan for military action in the Hamas-run territory if rocket attacks on Israel persist. ... > full story
GAZA, Nov. 14, 2008 (Reuters) Hamas Islamists fired long-range rockets at a southern Israel city on Friday after an Israeli air strike on their Gaza stronghold in the 11th day of skirmishes that threaten a five-month-old truce. ... > full story
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 9, 2008 (Reuters) The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators sought on Sunday to keep alive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks although political uncertainty in Israel has scotched hopes for a deal this year. ... > full story
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 7, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday denied the Israeli-Palestinian peace process sponsored by U.S. President George W. Bush was a failure, saying it should lay the ground for an eventual deal. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2008 (Reuters) The White House acknowledged for the first time on Thursday what analysts have been saying for months -- that Israel and the Palestinians were unlikely to reach a peace deal by year-end. ... > full story
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Palestinian factions agree to observe shaky ceasefire Nov. 23, 2008 (Xinhua News Agency) Palestinian factions agreed to halt rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Israel and to renew commitment to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire in exchange ...
PA: 'Hamas is staging Gaza blackouts' Nov. 18, 2008 (Jerusalem Post) Talkbacks for this article: 0 . . . Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah accused Hamas on Tuesday of staging the latest blackouts in the ...
Israel says will release 250 Palestinian prisoners Nov. 17, 2008 (Boston Globe) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during talks on Monday to release 250 Palestinians prisoners next ...
David Horovitz Nov. 14, 2008 (Jerusalem Post) Talkbacks for this article: 0 . . . Few brief occasions have encapsulated Ehud Olmert's mishandling of the role of prime minister as thoroughly as ...