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Have the Mideast Peace Talks Become a Game Show? (Time.com)

November 17th, 2010

Time.com - The substantial carrot being waved at Netanyahu and his coalition may promise security but even Israeli intelligence believes real security comes from elsewhere

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US gets another month to revive Mideast talks (AP)

October 8th, 2010

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, left, leaves the Arab foreign ministers meeting in Sirte, Libya, Friday, Oct.8, 2010. Libya prepares to host one-day Arab League summit where Israeli-Palestinian talks expected to top agenda. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)AP - Arab ministers agreed Friday to give the United States another month to try to persuade Israel to renew curbs on West Bank settlement construction and keep Mideast peace…

US envoy to try to salvage Mideast peace talks (AP)

September 28th, 2010

A Jewish settler boy looks at earth-moving equipment working at a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Senior Palestinian official Yasser Abed Rabbo said Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas remains ready to walk out on Mideast peace talks if Israel resumes construction in its West Bank settlements now that building restrictions have expired. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Washington’s special Mideast envoy is to pressure Israeli and Palestinian leaders to keep peace talks from collapsing just weeks after they began.


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Palestinian leader says no quick decision on talks (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A bulldozer works in a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Adam outside Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly relaunched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - The Palestinian president says there will be no “quick decision” on whether to pull out of Mideast peace talks now that an Israeli moratorium on West Bank settlement…

Palestinians threaten again to quit peace talks (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A bulldozer works in a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Adam outside Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly relaunched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas will quit Mideast peace talks if Israel resumes construction in West Bank settlements now that 10-month-old building restrictions have expired.


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Israeli settlers to resume West Bank construction (AP)

September 27th, 2010

A bulldozer works in a construction site in the Jewish settlement of Adam outside Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly relaunched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israeli settlers say they will slowly resume building new Jewish homes in West Bank settlements — just hours after a construction ban that helped jump-start Mideast peace talks…

Israeli settlement freeze to end at midnight (AP)

September 26th, 2010

A Palestinian shepherd walks near the Jewish settlement of Revava, near the West Bank Village of Salfit, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. Danny Danon, a pro-settler lawmaker in Netanyahu's Likud Party, said Saturday that settlers have already moved equipment into the Revava settlement in the northern West Bank. He said activists would lay the cornerstone for a new neighborhood on Sunday, the last day of the slowdown, and planned additional construction Monday after the restrictions formally end.'Building will begin there tomorrow afternoon and continue there on Monday,' Danon said.(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israel’s 10-month slowdown in West Bank settlement construction is set to end at midnight, threatening to upend the fragile new round of Mideast peace talks.


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Israel’s settlements key to peace talk progress (AP)

September 16th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. After two days of inconclusive Mideast peace negotiations, Clinton traveled Thursday to the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in the West Bank to confer with President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Fadi Arouri, Pool)AP - Two days of Mideast peace talks appear to have brought Israel and the Palestinians closer to a deal that would allow those talks to continue, but even if…

Israel bombs Gaza as Mideast peace talks resume (AP)

September 15th, 2010

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reaches to greet Israeli President Shimon Peres, as she arrives at the Beit Hanassi presidential residence in Jerusalem, Israel Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Clinton is in the region for Mideast peace talks.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)AP - Militants launched mortar shells into Israel and Israeli jets bombed targets in Gaza on Wednesday, just as Israeli and Palestinian leaders held peace talks in Jerusalem with U.S.…

Clinton in Egypt for new round of Mideast talks (AP)

September 13th, 2010

Palestinian men work at a new housing development in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, near Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vague remarks on restricting new Israeli housing in the West Bank are the latest hurdle for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she flies to Egypt and Israel for the next round of Mideast peace talks. Clinton and former Sen. George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's special envoy to the region, plan to be in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, for talks Tuesday with Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in Egypt to start a second round of Mideast peace talks.


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