Abbas would accept delay for peace talks.

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New Plan to Delay Palestine U.N. Vote

To revive Israel-Palestine peace talks.

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U.S., Europe Seek U.N. Vote Delay

KABUL — Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was appointed last year to head a commission trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban, was killed inside his Kabul home Tuesday afternoon in a suicide bombing, Afghan officials said. The man who killed Rabbani was brought to his house under the pretext of peace talks, Gen. Abdul Zahir, the director of investigations for Kabul police said in a phone interview. The suicide bomber had hid explosives in his turban, Zahir said. Read full article > >

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu offers peace talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to prevent his bid for Palestinian statehood at the UN.

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U.S. officials have met with an aide to Mullah Mohammad Omar at least three times in recent months in the first direct exploratory peace talks, officials in the region said.

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President Obama’s proposals for resuscitating Middle East peace talks drew sharply negative responses from the Israeli government and the Islamist Hamas movement and set up a potentially frosty encounter between the U.S. president and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who will visit the White House on Friday. Netanyahu appeared to outright reject Obama’s call that the boundaries in place on the eve of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war serve as a starting point for negotiations, calling the proposed borders “indefensible” and suggesting that the plan would weaken Israeli security and put Jewish settlers at risk. Read full article > >

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US President Barack Obama says it is “more vital than ever” for Israelis and Palestinians to restart peace talks, following a meeting with Jordan’s king.

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Just a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Washington had the makings of a confrontation amid U.S. dissatisfaction over peace policy. Then Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed a power-sharing arrangement with Hamas. Although Washington cannot easily demand that Netanyahu make major concessions on peace as Abbas joins forces with a group sworn to Israel’s destruction, the Israeli prime minister should still arrive this week with a plan for renewed peace talks. Read full article > >

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What would Netanyahu do for peace?

The US envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is stepping down after two years of pursuing progress on peace talks, the White House says.

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US Mid-East peace envoy resigns

The former Maine senator has served as President Obama’s point man in the region while the administration has tried to keep Arab-Israeli peace talks on track.

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Mideast envoy Mitchell leaving

A group of prominent Israelis is proposing a new plan to break the deadlock in peace talks with the Palestinians.

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Prominent Israelis in peace bid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is drafting a plan to break diplomatic deadlock in peace talks by offering Palestinians some limited “steps on the ground,” according to an unnamed Israeli official. The source went on to say that Netanyahu…

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat has stepped down from his post, a move that follows the leaking of controversial documents that shed light on peace talks with the Israelis, Palestinian officials told CNN on Saturday.

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Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who led several rounds of peace talks with Israel, has told the BBC he has handed in his resignation.

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India and Pakistan agree to resume wide-ranging peace talks, which were suspended after Pakistan-based militants attacked Mumbai in 2008.

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India and Pakistan resume talks