Yasser Arafat cedes power to prime minister
JER2003042908 - RAMALLAH, West Bank, April 29 (UPI) -- Designate Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen attends the Palestinian Legislative Council meeting in Ramallah in the West Bank, on April 29, 2003. Abu Mazen asked the PLC to approve his cabinet. Mazen will take over some power from long time leader and president Yasser Arafat. rlw/dh/Debbie Hill UPI
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Palestinian leaders in the Fatah movement have turned down the road to extremism by joining hands with Hamas, a U.S. legislator said.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority is accusing Hamas of diverting attention from the P.A. president as he bids for international recognition of a Palestinian state.
JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A top Israeli government adviser is questioning whether the Palestinian Authority is Israel's true partner in peace.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Days before Israel and the Palestinians meet to discuss peace, the spiritual leader of the Shas religious party called the Palestinian president "evil."
JERUSALEM, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Fatah and Hamas may reconcile soon, reforming into a single movement, a Palestinian leader predicts.
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LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Israel's foreign minister said at a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, that Egypt must put a stop to weapons smuggling from that country into Gaza.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Israeli Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Eli Yishai's call for a Palestinian economic meeting has been rejected by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- An Israeli major last week carelessly drove into the West Bank town of Jenin, a city that even foreign correspondents were warned not to enter in cars bearing Israeli license plates.
JERUSALEM, July 25 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday he plans to discuss the formation of a Palestinian state with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
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