AP Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday criticized US President George W. Bush for his speech before the Israeli Knesset on Thursday.

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - President Bush lectured the Arab world Sunday about everything from political repression to the denial of women's rights but ran into Palestinian complaints he is favoring Israel in stalled Mideast peace talks. "Freedom and peace are within your grasp," Bush said despite scant signs of progress.
Winding up a five-day trip to the region, Bush took a strikingly tougher tone with Arab nations than he did with Israel in a speech Thursday to the Knesset. Israel received effusive praise from the president while Arab nations heard a litany of U.S. criticisms mixed with some compliments.
lowed, with barely a ripple of reaction later to his declaration than Iran must not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas isn't concealing his disappointment over President Bush's recent remarks to the Israeli parliament.
In Bush's speech Thursday, Israel received effusive praise, while Palestinian hopes were barely mentioned.
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WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are privately discussing a peace agreement and the talks should intensify in the next several months, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
"I do know how seriously they are discussing all of the key issues," Rice told reporters aboard Air Force One as she returned from a Middle East trip with President George W. Bush. "I think you're going to see them intensifying those discussions over the next several months."
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By JPOST.COM STAFF, AP AND GIL HOFFMAN Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday threatened to resign if there is no peace agreement with

AP JERUSALEM: An Israeli lawmaker says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to resign if peace talks don't begin to make progress.

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush said not long ago that he did not have a magic wand to bring down gas prices. But when it comes to Middle East peace, he apparently has a crystal ball.
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icture of the Middle East as a place of “integration and tolerance” by the time the country’s 120th birthday rolls around.

By JENNIFER LOVEN AP SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of terror that he said are holding the region back. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
U.S. President George W. Bush meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, left, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd-al-Mahdi and deputy prime minister Barham Salih, right, in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, Sunday, May 18, 2008. Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors