1.   American diplomats warned their Israeli counterparts that halting the flow of funds could have the opposite effect of the one intended by the Israelis.

2.   Although they condemned the killing of the Hamas leader, senior Palestinian officials sat down again in Jerusalem with their Israeli counterparts to discuss strengthening their peculiar truce.

3.   And, he said, when it comes to opposition, his Israeli counterparts have it easy.

4.   A Palestinian official who declined to be named said that Palestinian security officials were to meet their Israeli counterparts on Wednesday to explain the plan.

5.   Administration officials have been in intense discussions with their Israeli counterparts about how to make the hour-long meeting on Tuesday successful.

6.   But Mubarak suggested that his Israeli counterpart had remained as defiant in private as he had been in his public statements.

7.   Dahlan was once praised by his Israeli counterparts for jailing accused terrorists and suppressing Islamist dissidents opposed to peace with Israel.

8.   He spoke after he and the director of Central Intelligence, John Deutch, met their Israeli counterparts and Prime Minister Shimon Peres.

9.   He went into the Washington talks in a bluster of indignation, demanding an assurance that Palestinian security forces would never again fire at their Israeli counterparts.

10.   He will need to return soon for a longer stay to rebuild links between reformed Palestinian forces and their Israeli counterparts.