Lebanon refuses contact with Israel
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Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Wednesday that he refused to have any direct contact with Israel and Lebanon would be the last Arab country to ever sign a peace deal with the Jewish state.
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Israel's prime minister refuses to bow to angry settlers' demands for a vote on his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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A defiant Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets Sunday after rejecting a U.S.-French truce proposal, killing at least 15 people. Israel also struck hard, killing 14 in Lebanon as both sides tried to take advantage of the days before a U.N. resolution is put to a vote.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force takes up positions along the Syrian border and at Beirut's airport.
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Five Muslim countries denounced Israel's offensive in Lebanon on Friday, calling for an immediate halt to the hostilities.
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The Lebanese government decided Monday to protest to the U.N. Security Council over Israel's blockade of the country and call on it to force Israel to lift the siege.
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Lebanon's political crisis showed no sign of easing on Sunday, with the pro-Syrian opposition pressing its protest campaign to topple the Western-backed government.
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Israel rejected a call from U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and   sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would only end the   7-week-old siege once all elements of a ceasefire were in   place.
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Syria and Lebanon denied on Sunday a redeployment of the Syrian troops in Lebanon and rejected a change of bilateral ties under outside pressures.
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The Lebanese insist a disputed 10-mile-square area of land is theirs, and Hezbollah says it will not lay down its weapons until Israel gives it back.
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Syria and Lebanon rejected any outside  role in shaping their relations Sunday, a day after a top State  Department official said Damascus should pull its troops from  its small neighbor.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says his country will not take part in an expected Middle East conference.
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Perils multiply if Israel accepts plans to drive deep into southern Lebanon, but Israelis say calling off the offensive now would signal failure
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Barbed wire, an earthen barrier and a minefield separate Lebanon from the last piece of its territory yet to be returned by Israel.
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa failed on Thursday to broker a deal to resolve Lebanon's political crisis, a senior political source said.
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Israel rejected a call by U.N.   Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to lift its air and   sea blockade of Lebanon, saying it would end the seven-week-old   siege only when all aspects of a ceasefire were in place.
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Lebanon's prime minister called Israel's blockade of the country illegal on Saturday and the parliament speaker urged Arab nations to break the siege.