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Earlier <\/SPAN> A senior Israeli security source said <\/SPAN> They wasted no time subjecting the new Palestinian president to his first test, firing seven rockets and mortar bombs into Jewish enclaves in southern <\/SPAN> An Israeli died Tuesday of wounds suffered in a rocket volley into a north <\/SPAN> Hamas militants, who want not only to oust <\/SPAN> JERUSALEM – ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon phoned Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday to congratulate him on his election as Palestinian president and offer cooperation, the highest-level contact between the sides in nearly four years. But Palestinian militants resumed rocket and mortar fire at Jewish settlements in Gaza, signaling tough challenges ahead for the moderate Abbas and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/SPAN>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon phoned Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday to congratulate him on his election as Palestinian president and offer cooperation, the highest-level contact between the sides in nearly four years.
But Palestinian militants resumed rocket and mortar fire at Jewish settlements in <\/SPAN>
Abbas’s predecessor Yasser Arafat last spoke to <\/SPAN>
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Maher Shalabi, an adviser to Abbas, said the two leaders talked about “ways to revive the peace process and about a meeting, which will be set up in the next few days.”
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But while Abbas wants a cease-fire, he has rejected Israeli demands to crush the militants, calling them “freedom fighters” whom he wants to integrate into the Palestinian mainstream.
Aides say Abbas would gain more leverage over militants if <\/SPAN>
MILITANTS DEFY ABBAS <\/B>
Abbas took 62.3 percent of the ballot in Sunday’s election of a successor to Arafat, patriarch of the Palestinians’ statehood struggle who died in November. But powerful Islamists boycotted the vote and refused to suspend attacks on <\/SPAN>
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Abbas wants to call off a four-year-old uprising waged by militant factions and negotiate for a state in all of the occupied <\/SPAN>
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Abbas’s election was a <\/SPAN>
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A halt to Palestinian violence and a freeze on settlement building are twin preconditions for a “road map” peace process U.S.-led mediators hope to revive with Abbas in power. But analysts cautioned against undue optimism.
Neither Palestinians nor Israelis have shown signs of compromise on fundamental disputes behind generations of conflict — borders, the future status of holy <\/SPAN>
Bush has assured <\/SPAN>
By Mark Heinrich
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