A new push for Mideast peace

Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged at a U.S.-sponsored summit in Annapolis, Md., this week to begin negotiating a possible peace agreement that would finally create a Palestinian state. After an intense, 24-hour round of negotiations, Palestinian Pre

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Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged at a U.S.-sponsored summit in Annapolis, Md., this week to begin negotiating a possible peace agreement that would finally create a Palestinian state. After an intense, 24-hour round of negotiations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to a framework for talks, with both sides promising to meet every two weeks and hammer out a detailed settlement of all issues by the end of 2008. Leaders of 16 Arab League nations attended the summit—indicating broad Arab support for the first major attempt to broker a Mideast peace deal since talks collapsed during the Clinton administration.

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