Mr. Ghali says he sacked a second imam in 2000 for preaching too much about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Arab leaders still tell visitors like General Powell they would like to see a more balanced US role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- We -- you, me, and the rest of the world -- have been voyeurs to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for a long time.
Moreover, he recognized that the US's primary role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not to mediate a dispute the Palestinians are unwilling to reconcile, but to stand by Israel as America's main ally in the region.
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The guiding notion behind this paradigm, which has been the prominent goal of U.S. Middle East policy since the 1970s is that it is possible to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and defuse the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole by Israeli appeasement of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu has supported the expansion of Israeli settlements on the West Bank and has opposed making further territorial concessions in hope of ending the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kerry has said he fears there is only a two- or three-year window of opportunity to reach a deal on a two-state solution that would end the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and wants to move as quickly as possible.
This, his aides say, means he cannot answer for the moment such niggling questions as whether he accepts the very concept of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There have been mounting calls in Europe to suspend a planned upgrade in relations with Israel until its new cabinet publicly expresses support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to make another trip to the Middle East next week, in advance of a U.S.-initiated conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be held in Washington this fall.
As two decades of peace talks have failed to secure a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian officials insist the time is right to ask the UN to grant full membership to an independent state of Palestine.
The United States, most Arab leaders and many international observers favor establishing a Palestinian state separate from Israel as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The hawks' candidate to take over is Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-American with little experience in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whose empire will include the Middle East, Iran and Iraq.
One Democratic hopeful, Howard Dean, the ex-governor of Vermont, has attracted the interest of many Arab-Americans by calling on America to be more impartial in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"The pope will be facing not only the issues of Catholic-Jewish relations and Catholic-Muslim relations -- two faiths with which he's had his problems over the four years that he's been on the job -- but he'll also be wading right into the thick of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, " he said.
Then there are the long-standing challenges that could take a turn for the worse, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It does not want to be viewed solely through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But everyone wants to know what the president will say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Does that sense of a moment of opportunity also apply to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
We all recognize how vital it could be to see a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Afghan war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are also high on their list of grievances.
We discussed our mutual interest in seeing a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Dr Williams also issued a call for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.
The snub by the three countries indicates growing discord in the Arab world regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But one analyst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cautioned against putting "dangerously high" expectations on the incoming administration.
Does the President still think that American involvement and American mediation is necessary for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
An Arab summit , the first for four years, was held in Cairo to consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It was started seven years ago, during the height of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This greatly reduces its chances of being useful in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Let's face it, for years when policy makers and journalists have said "the Middle East" they've meant the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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