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Israel’s premier approved a shipment of Russian arms to police in the West Bank, overriding objections of his own security forces to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas going into next week’s U.S.-sponsored peace conference, officials said Wednesday.
Israel also will let farmers in the Gaza Strip export strawberries and flowers, a gesture aimed at easing the economic crunch that has worsened for the coastal territory’s 1.5 million Palestinians.
City quiet about confab. The only sign residents have seen that a Middle East peace summit is coming to the small waterfront city of Annapolis is that Maryland state flags lining Main Street were replaced this week with American flags.
