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.
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.
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.
Then there are the long-standing challenges that could take a turn for the worse, such as 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.
Publicly the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations insist the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the core Middle East issue.
But one recent event seems to have brought Iran's involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back to the top of the American agenda.
DC, trying to reawaken the Middle East peace process , particularly the negotiations on a permanent solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
We are keenly interested in finding a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President Bush consults regularly with Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto Saudi ruler, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Saudis' influence is limited.
They would like the United States to be more engaged in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.
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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.
It has also tried to turn attention toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Hussein threatening to raise up to 100, 000 volunteers to fight alongside the Palestinians against Israel.
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.
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