Mid-East 'drifting towards chaos'
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A top UN official warns the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not end without international involvement.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM - Israel will not follow the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan and could remain in much of the West Bank for a long time after it withdraws from the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday.    Sharon's comments were his most detailed yet on his long-term vision for the region...
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There&#39;s been a lukewarm reaction to a British-backed Middle East conference. Israel says it will boycott the meeting pencilled in for February in London.
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Analysis: Israel's widening counterattacks against Lebanon threaten not only the country's fragile economic rebirth, but an entire region's tenuous stability
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Israel is on a collision course with the European Union and could turn into a pariah state, like South Africa during the apartheid years, if its conflict with the Palestinians is
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Israel will slow a planned pullback  from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed  a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep  militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Recent events in the Middle East have the potential to positively impact the region. Lost amongst all of the coverage of Yasser Arafat&#39;s passing was a historic 67-45 vote by Israel&#39;s parliament
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One month after Yasser Arafat's death, realignments on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli divide are raising fragile hopes for a mutual retreat from four years of fighting.
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What many Americans may see as chaos and turmoil in the Middle East is partly the result of the Bush administration hastening historical forces that are destined to reshape the region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday. She added that the results will not be known for decades.
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Last summer it was Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rockets. This year, it's al-Qaida-inspired militants and explosions keeping tourists away. This small, trouble-plagued country is once again set to lose millions of much-needed tourism dollars because of unrest.
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Israel is set on a collision course with the European Union and could turn into a pariah state, like South Africa during the apartheid years, if the Mideast conflict is not resolved, Israel's Foreign Ministry warns in a confidential 10-year forecast.
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Israel could end up on a collision  course with the European Union and face sanctions like  apartheid-era South Africa unless the Israeli-Palestinian  conflict is resolved, a confidential government report warns.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s hope of annexing West Bank settlements and keeping all of Jerusalem under a final peace deal is a disaster that could torpedo efforts to restart peace talks, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
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The recent behavior of a party with pretensions of returning to power and leading Israel out of its crisis does not reflect much common sense.
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The world must act now to keep alive the prospects of a two-state solution in the Middle East or see the opportunity disappear,  Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: Political chaos means Israel is booming like it's 1999 - and the boom is in defence exports field-tested on Palestinians.