Israeli outpost removals likely: Olmert deputy
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Israel will likely begin a crackdown on Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank when U.S. President George W. Bush visits the region next week, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputy said on Friday.
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Israel should turn over Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the Palestinians as part of a peace deal with the moderate government of President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel's deputy prime minister said Friday. The comment was one of the frankest remarks to date about what Israel might be willing to relinquish in talks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert   will hold his first peace summit with Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas if gunmen in the Gaza Strip release a captive   Israeli soldier, Olmert's senior deputy said on Tuesday.
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A report to be released Wednesday about his inconclusive 2006 war in Lebanon could determine whether Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert holds onto his job long enough to try to make peace with the Palestinians this year.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 26 - A small Jewish settlement tucked in the corner of the Gaza Strip has become the first one in which all the residents have agreed to leave under the Israeli government's Gaza withdrawal plan, an Israeli official said today.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to walk away from his first visit to the United States without getting the Bush administration to put its heft behind Olmert&#039;s sweeping West Bank pullback plan.
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An Israeli government report has warned that the country could face sanctions and become a pariah state if its conflict with the Palestinians is not resolved.
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JERUSALEM - Senior Israeli Cabinet ministers Tuesday approved the payment of cash advances to Jewish settlers who will be removed from their homes under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to leave the Gaza Strip - the government's first concrete step toward withdrawal.    The 9-1 vote in the Security Cabinet gave a boost to Sharon, who faces growing opposition...
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Israel came under new pressure Friday to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 barrier after the attorney general warned of international isolation and the Supreme Court ordered the government to explain its position in light of
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset appeared set today to approve a historic withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the occupied territories following an emotional appeal yesterday by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a major strike against Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Israel should withdraw from more of the West Bank after a small-scale pullback set for 2005, Israel&#39;s vice premier said in an interview published Thursday -- one of the first indications of Israel&#39;s long-term intentions.
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Israeli newspapers forecast Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's survival on Thursday after a report criticized the army and his government's conduct during a 2006 war in Lebanon but offered him a political reprieve.
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Ariel Sharon's deputy repeated a  call, rejected in the past by the Israeli prime minister, for a  wider withdrawal from the West Bank after a planned pullout  from parts of the occupied Palestinian territory and Gaza.
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Israeli forces evacuated two makeshift settlement outposts in the West Bank on Wednesday, a step to remove a major obstacle to peace talks with Palestinians
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Israel said ahead of a visit by  Secretary of State Colin Powell Sunday that it would consider  any formal request to pull troops away from West Bank cities to  facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday warned the United States against a quick departure from Iraq, saying it would lead to instability in the region and undermine Washington's ability to deal with emerging threats.
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JERUSALEM -- Residents of some Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip have proposed that their entire communities be moved to locations inside Israel under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza next year, a lawmaker said yesterday.