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...over the state of ties with Israel's closest ally, saying Israel's coalition "must act to change things." U.S. envoy George Mitchell held talks with Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Friday in the first round of a new mission to revive Middle East peace...
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The Post Chronicle
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...it doesn't make it easy, I'd much rather be in the race than where Silver Birch is," said Mitchell. In January, Ellerslie George took his chance in the victorchandler.com Handicap Chase at Ascot, but the ground was far too soft and he finished only eighth...
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Sporting Life
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...down. But consider the source and the reasons given: An Arab political source said Friday that special U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell has requested to resign due to his frustration with the way the Obama administration has been handling the Israeli-Palestinian...
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Israel Matsav
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...not include both the Tomb and the Cave? So the Obama administration has not tilted towards Israel at all, regardless of what Mitchell says. A more likely reason for Mitchell’s dyspepsia, whatever he says, is that he has been a complete flop. He has not advanced...
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The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/george-mitchell-wants-quit-yipee
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...between local Kiwanis and Rotary members, Kofman said. Mitchell is survived by his wife, Dorothy; sons Alan Jr., Douglas and George; eight grandchildren; several nieces and nephews, including Sherrie Tucker, Jim Tucker and Brooks Mitchell; cousin Ellen Louise...
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Inside Bay Area
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...the third day of the federal competency hearing for Brian David Mitchell. FBI special agent George Dougherty interviewed Mitchell four times in the days following his arrest in March of 2003. Each time, Mitchell was calculated in his answers and seemed to...
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Deseret News
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...(optional): Ladies and gentlemen, The Godfather of Gas, the Santa Claus of Shale, the Wizard of The Woodlands, Mr. George Mitchell. (Nick de la Torre/Chronicle) This weekend we wrote about the important role George Mitchell and Mitchell Energy played...
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Houston Chronicle
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The appointment of Senator George Mitchell as special envoy to the Middle East in January 2009 elicited great expectations for progress on the Israeli-Palestinian track, particularly since the new American president, Barack Obama, eloquently
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Jerusalem Post
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(NECN: Marnie MacLean, Waterville, Maine) - One of President Barack Obama's special envoys to the Middle East is in New England this weekend. As he prepares to brief the president on progress overseas, George Mitchell is at home in Maine.
Mitchell, a
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NECN
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...special envoys to the Middle East is in New England this weekend. As he prepares to brief the president on progress overseas, George Mitchell is at home in Maine. Mitchell, a former U.S. Senator, was instrumental in brokering a peace deal in Northern Ireland...
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NECN
http://www.necn.com/Boston/Politics/2009/10/23/George-Mitchell-on/1256330593.html
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WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) - President Obama's Mideast envoy George Mitchell said Thursday it's too soon to brand his efforts to resume peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders a failure.
The former Senate leader, who brokered the 1999 Northern
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KIVITV.com
http://www.kivitv.com/global/story.asp?s=11369240
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President Obama designated George Mitchell his special envoy to the Jews and the Arabs because he had experience with them. Of course, Mitchell's familiarity with the Middle East was the familiarity of utter failure. No matter. Obama couldn't have sent
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The New Republic
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JERUSALEM - Washington's special Mideast envoy wrapped up his latest round of shuttle diplomacy in the region on Sunday, again having failed to persuade the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks.
The envoy, George Mitchell, spent more than an
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33266884/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
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RAMALLAH, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and George Mitchell, the U.S. peace envoy to the Middle Eastheld on Friday talks in Ramallah and discussed the stalled peace process.
"We discussed our common vision of a viable
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/10/content_12203183.htm
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In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell,
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ABC News
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Barack Obama's special Mideast envoy was unable Friday to bridge wide gaps between Israelis and Palestinians on the terms of renewing peace talks, the chief Palestinian negotiator said.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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Israel is giving U.S. special envoy George Mitchell no signs it will
compromise on its policy of expanding settlements in the West Bank. Mitchell - who has
been pressing Washington's demand for a settlement freeze - will meet
again with Israeli Prime
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-15-voa51.cfm?rss=topstories
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JERUSALEM, Sep 15, 2009 (AFP) - US envoy George Mitchell sought a deal on the thorny issue of West Bank settlements on Tuesday as he met Israel's prime minister in a bid to pave the way to resume stalled Middle East peace talks.
"We hope to bring this
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Zawya.com
http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20090915T101855ZCKK91
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell is in Israel in a fresh push of long-stalled peace process.
Mitchell is expected to reach an agreement with Israel on a settlement freeze ahead
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/14/content_12046331.htm
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seem headed for their first meeting in late September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, with Netanyahu on Wednesday terming Abbas's apparent agreement to
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Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1251145126430
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...me it was kind of a joke, the whole thing,” Cust told The Associated Press last weekend. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell released his report in December 2007 and of the 85 players mentioned, none of them were Boston stars. Mitchell has been a...
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Boston Herald
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...noncommissioned sergeants serving at that time. A leader and contributor in the Long Beach and Orange County communities, George Mitchell, died Friday at the age of 74 after battling prostate cancer and kidney problems for three years. "He has helped so many...
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
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and was the youngest of the highest-ranked noncommissioned sergeants serving at that time.
A leader and contributor in the Long Beach and Orange County communities, George Mitchell, died Friday at the age of 74 after battling prostate cancer and
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Long Beach Press-Telegram
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Brian McNamee is accusing Roger Clemens of trying to ruin the former Major League Baseball trainer's reputation and livelihood in a defamation suit filed on Friday.
Former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens has maintained that McNamee lied when he told
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New York Daily News
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JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister and the top U.S. Mideast envoy said they made progress Tuesday on their dispute over West Bank settlements, but offered no sign of a breakthrough at a meeting in Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1420670.html
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Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erakat, who met with U.S. Mideast Peace Envoy George Mitchell hereon Monday, said that the Palestinians remain committed to fulfilling all of their Road Map obligations.
"We expect everyone to honor their commitments;
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People's Daily Online
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6711771.html
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Mideast envoy George Mitchell (left) held what he called "very candid and positive" talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
JERUSALEM - President Obama's Mideast envoy yesterday called on the Arab world to take steps toward normalizing relations
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Philly.com
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CAIRO - US Middle East envoy George Mitchell reached Egypt on the latest leg of a whirlwind regional tour after stops in Israel and Syria earlier on Sunday, as Washington bids to jumpstart stalled peace talks.
Mitchell will meet Egyptian President
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Channel News Asia
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/444893/1/.html
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ENVILLE - The light finally came on.
It was a night last March - George Mitchell kicks himself for not marking down the date. After years of trying and spending, his magnetic device finally turned on the light he had wired to it on a kitchen table.
He
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The Jackson Sun
http://jacksonsun.com/article/20090718/NEWS01/907180312/1002/rss
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United States seeks a "prompt resumption and early conclusion" of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Washington's special Mideast envoy said after talks Wednesday with Palestinian leaders.
Former Senator George Mitchell did not give any timetable in
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Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093676.html
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ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell will travel to Paris next week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to State Department officials. Mitchell hinted today that peace talks between
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ABC News
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CAIRO, June 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. special envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell concluded Sunday his latest swing through the Middle East in a renewed attempt to push forward the long-stalled peace process.
Mitchell's fourth regional tour
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/14/content_11540416.htm
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, right, meets with with Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, at the Syrian presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday June 13, 2009. Mitchell
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1095542.html
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BEIRUT: US special envoy George Mitchell on Friday called for the creation of a Palestinian state as part of Washington's comprehensive regional peace strategy, while assuring Lebanese leaders that such a deal would not come at Lebanon's expense.
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Lebanon Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=102983
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BEIRUT: US envoy George Mitchell arrived in Beirut Thursday, just days after Lebanon's pivotal parliamentary elections, for meetings with President Michel Sleiman and other high ranking officials. Mitchell, US President Barack Obama's special regional
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Lebanon Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=102953
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US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell met with top Egyptian officials, Thursday, to discuss prospects for resuming Arab-Israeli peace talks. Mitchell conferred with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, as well as Arab League
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-11-voa20.cfm?rss=topstories
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U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell has told Palestinian leaders the United States remains committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Mr. Mitchell met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank as part of a stepped up U.
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-10-voa32.cfm?rss=topstories
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He will hold talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
"Israelis and Palestinians have a responsibility to meet their obligations under the roadmap," he said on Tuesday,
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Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200969204418484373.html
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Helena Cobban, The Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2009
DAMASCUS (IPS) - The head of Hamas's political bureau, Khaled Meshal, gave a qualified welcome here Thursday to the big speech that US President Barack Obama addressed to the Muslim
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The Electronic Intifada
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/LJ6rVDpkCs0/article10584.shtml
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The video below is today's State Department briefing. Between the 20:00 and 22:00 marks, a reporter asks about Mideast envoy George Mitchell having applied for a visa to Syria, although he claims it doesn't necessarily mean that Mitchell is going
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Israel Matsav
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/06/mitchell-going-to-syria.html
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When Officer George Mitchell and fire medic Lamont Washington ran to their neighbor's house on Dickens Avenue near 76th Street yesterday to rescue occupants from an inferno, it was the second time that their paths had crossed trying to save people at
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Philly.com
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The drumbeat coming out of Washington - and from President Obama's 'Middle East envoy' George Mitchell is getting louder and more unpleasant.
"This conflict has gone on for far too long, and the people of this region should no longer have to wait
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Israel Matsav
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2009/04/only-solution.html
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Palestinian state alongside Israel is the only way to end the Mideast conflict, President Obama's Mideast point man said yesterday, sending a stern message to Israel's hardline leaders, who have expressed misgivings about a
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/04/18/us_envoy_says_2_state_deal_is_only_solution_for_mideast?rss_id=Boston.com+--+World+news
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Stark differences between U.S. and Israeli policy toward peace talks with the Palestinians emerged clearly Thursday in the first meetings between President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy and top leaders of the new Israeli government.
U.S.
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The message conveyed by American sources at the end of marathon talks held in Israel
by US President Barack Obama's special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, is clear: The United States demands that Israel continues the Road Map
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Ynetnews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3702444,00.html
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Mr Mitchell is leading a renewed US push for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
US President Barack Obama's envoy to the Middle East is in Israel for his first talks with the new government
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8001497.stm
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WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) would like to congratulate Senator George Mitchell and five other BPC project members who have been selected to serve in President Obama's Administration. Members of the
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-18-2009/0004990691&EDATE=
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United States Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Feb. 25. (Photo: Adem Altan / AFP-Getty Images)
I remember feeling a sudden surge of optimism when I first heard that George Mitchell was
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Worldpress.org
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3315.cfm
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United States Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Feb. 25. (Photo: Adem Altan / AFP-Getty Images)
I remember feeling a sudden surge of optimism when I first heard that George Mitchell was
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Worldpress.org
http://worldpress.org/Mideast/3315.cfm
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After completing his twenty-month investigation, former Senator George Mitchell published his much-anticipated report today, naming 77 players, 29 of whom were active in 2007. Mitchell’s proof heavily relies upon the testimony of former Mets’ clubhouse
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