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The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating Warren Buffett's philosophy in a historic collaboration between Mr. Buffett and Prof. Lawrence Cunningham. As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularity and longevity attest to the widespread appetite for this unique compilation of Mr. Buffett's thoughts that is at once comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible. New and experienced readers alike will gain an invaluable informal education by perusing this classic arrangement of Mr. Buffett's best writings."Larry Cunningham has done a great job at collating our philosophy."-Warren Buffett "Larry Cunningham takes Buffett's brilliant letters to a still-higher level by organizing them into single-subject chapters. The book begins, moreover, with an excellent introduction by Larry."-Carol Loomis "The book on Buffett-a superb job."-Forbes "Extraordinary-full of wisdom, humor, and common sense."-Money "A classic on value investing and the definitive source on Buffett.""-Financial Times

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Lawrence Cunningham's two dozen books include The Essays of Warren Buffett, which Cunningham self-published into an international best-seller that he has arranged for translation into a dozen languages.

An influential thought leader in both value investing and corporate governance, Cunningham's other notable books include Quality Investing (long time best seller with AKO Capital), The AIG Story (with Hank Greenberg) and Margin of Trust (which Warren Buffett singled out for special mention in his 2020 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders).

Cunningham advises companies, boards and shareholders, for many years as the founder of Quality Shareholders Group and recently as special counsel at Mayer Brown LLP. He has served on numerous corporate boards, of both private and public companies, including Markel Group (New York Stock Exchange) and Constellation Software Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange).

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When Warren Buffett speaks, people worldwide listen. And with good reason: Buffett is the most successful investor-manager in history. He has set world records for achieving both high personal net worth, exceeding US$80 billion, and high corporate value for his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, approaching US$600 billion. Time magazine lists Buffett as among the most influential people in the world―and he is.

According to Buffett, the best book collating his philosophy is The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence A. Cunningham, the internationally renowned scholar and expert on Buffett and Berkshire. Through many updated editions dating to 1997, The Essays is the definitive account of Buffett’s approach to investing and management, consisting of a carefully curated and thematically organized compendium of Buffett’s original annual letters, along with Cunningham’s priceless commentaries.

" The book on Buffett. A superb job." ― Forbes

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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition

by Lawrence A. Cunningham , Warren E. Buffett

2019, 352 pp, paper, ISBN 978-1-5310-1750-7

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The year 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Berkshire Hathaway under Warren Buffett's leadership, a milestone worth commemorating. The tenure sets a record for chief executive not only in duration but in value creation and philosophizing. The fourth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America celebrates its twentieth anniversary. As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularity and longevity attest to the widespread appetite for this unique compilation of Buffett's thoughts that is at once comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible. New and experienced readers alike will gain an invaluable informal education by perusing this classic arrangement of Warren's best writings.

The fourth edition's new material includes:

Warren's 50th anniversary retrospective, in what Bill Gates called Warren's best letter ever, on conglomerates and Berkshire's future without Buffett;
Charlie Munger's 50th anniversary essay on "The Berkshire System";
Warren's definitive defense of Berkshire's no-dividend practice; and
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"Larry Cunningham has done a great job at collating our philosophy." — Warren Buffett "Larry Cunningham takes Buffett's brilliant letters to a still-higher level by organizing them into single-subject chapters. The book begins, moreover, with an excellent introduction by Larry." — Carol Loomis "This is a very important book. I recommend it to everyone who is interested in learning about investing, corporate governance, and business judgement." — Bill Ackman "The book on Buffett—a superb job." — Forbes "Extraordinary—full of wisdom, humor, and common sense." — Money "A classic on value investing and the definitive source on Buffett." — Financial Times "Cunningham has done a truly commendable job distilling and organizing the essence of Buffett's letter to Berkshire shareholders...While the essays reviewed in the latest edition of this volume range across a broad assortment of topics, for most readers the most valuable part of this book will be Buffett's lessons and insights on investing. It is extraordinarily rewarding to be able to survey the accumulated wisdom of one of the world's most successful investors." — Kevin M. LaCroix, The D&O Diary

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Middle East Crisis Palestinian Authority Leader’s Visit Highlights Turkey’s Unique Role in Gaza Conflict

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The men approach a podium, with Mr. Erdogan holding Mr. Abbas’s hand. Turkish and Palestinian flags are behind them.

Abbas meets with Erdogan at the start of a 2-day visit.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel a “bloodsucking vampire” because of his approach to the war in Gaza. He declared a day of mourning when the Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an apparent Israeli assassination . And he has praised Hamas, which many Western countries consider a terrorist group, as an “ organization of liberation .”

Yet Turkey officially supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, seemingly contradicting Hamas’s goal of wiping Israel off the map.

It is into this complex mix that President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority stepped on Wednesday, meeting in private with Mr. Erdogan in the Turkish capital, Ankara. He is also expected to address Turkey’s Parliament on Thursday.

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Turkey has staked out a position that Turkish officials and analysts say is driven by support for the Palestinians, anger at the war’s high civilian toll and domestic politics. Turkey recognizes Israel diplomatically, unlike many other Muslim-majority states, and wants to play a role in ending the Gaza war, while its leaders simultaneously stand up for Hamas, a group dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

Sympathy for the Palestinians is widespread in Turkey’s otherwise polarized society. Many Turks are genuinely horrified by the vast destruction and civilian deaths, so politicians across the spectrum have more to gain from criticizing Israel than from speaking about its security concerns.

Officials in and close to Mr. Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party also have personal relationships with Hamas leaders that go back many years. Mr. Erdogan knew Mr. Haniyeh personally. His foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan, met Mr. Haniyeh often and sometimes passed messages to him from the United States, Jeffry L. Flake, the departing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, told reporters this week.

Last week, during a news conference with his counterpart from Montenegro, Mr. Fidan set aside his normally staid style to lash out at Israel.

“The perpetrators of the massacre in Gaza shouldn’t remain without punishment,” he said. “Those murderers should be held accountable sooner or later at international courts.”

He also criticized countries that send military aid to Israel. He didn’t name them, but the United States is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel.

“It is pretty clear who is escalating the tension,” he said. “Stop the habit of sending the bill to the wrong place. The road to peace and calm in the Middle East comes through reining in the craziness of Israel.”

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Abbas’s invitation to Ankara was part of a specific Turkish policy proposal. Mr. Abbas heads the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and seeks a two-state solution with Israel. United States officials have suggested that the authority — a fierce rival of Hamas — could help govern Gaza after the war, an idea Mr. Netanyahu has rejected.

Complicating the picture, Mr. Erdogan told members of his party last week that before Mr. Haniyeh’s assassination, Turkey had been planning to invite him to address the Parliament too.

Despite the harsh rhetoric, Turkey has not cut diplomatic ties with Israel, although they have been scaled back and Turkey has announced the suspension of trade.

Turkey has also proposed that it serve as a “guarantor” of a Gaza cease-fire with Hamas in an arrangement under which the United States would secure Israel’s compliance. But that proposal has not gained traction.

Mr. Flake said that despite Mr. Haniyeh’s death, Turkey and the United States still shared the same goal.

“You can imagine that it has been difficult, but we’re both, our two countries, seeking the same thing: a cease-fire that will lead to some kind of enduring peace,” he said.

But the anti-Israel and pro-Hamas statements by Turkey’s leaders have made it hard for Turkey to play a central role in cease-fire negotiations as Qatar and Egypt have, Mr. Flake said.

“In terms of playing a mediating role, the rhetoric makes it very difficult,” he said.

— Ben Hubbard and Safak Timur reporting from Istanbul

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Israel approves a new settlement site in the West Bank, and other news.

Israeli planning authorities on Wednesday formally signed off on Nahal Heletz, a new Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, one of several set to be authorized in the coming months. In June, Bezalel Smotrich, a powerful far-right member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition and settler leader, pushed for measures that would expand settlements , which much of the international community views as illegal, in exchange for agreeing to release hundreds of millions in frozen Palestinian revenues. Mr. Smotrich has said Israel ought to rule the West Bank indefinitely without granting its Palestinian residents equal rights . He also opposes a cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza, and last week the White House sharply rebuked him for making what it called “ridiculous charges” against a U.S.-brokered proposal.

Israeli forces have conducted 40 attacks in Gaza over the last 24 hours, hitting infrastructure and militants “who posed a threat” to Israeli troops, the military said on Wednesday. Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that 36 people had been killed and 54 others were wounded over the same time period, bringing the death toll since Oct. 7 close to 40,000 people. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel’s military said last month that it had killed or apprehended 14,000 combatants in the enclave since the war’s start, but it did not say how it had arrived at that number, or how it had distinguished combatants from civilians. Critics of the war contend that Israel is too quick to identify any man killed as a fighter.

Diplomats called for a cease-fire at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday focused on an Israeli airstrike on Saturday that hit a school compound in northern Gaza where more than 2,000 displaced Palestinians had sought shelter. The Gaza Civil Defense emergency service said more than 90 people were killed in the strike at Al-Tabaeen school in Gaza City. Diplomats, who also called for a hostage release, said the war must stop to end human suffering and to prevent a wider war. “Ten months since the start of the war, the threat of further regional escalation is more palpable, and chilling, than ever,” said the U.N.’s top political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo.

Iran sharply criticized three European leaders who had called for restraint in the crisis with Israel, saying Tehran reserved the right to defend its sovereignty. Nasser Kanaani, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Tuesday that they had ignored Israeli “crimes and terrorism” against Palestinians and in the Middle East. On Monday, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany had urged Iran and its allies not to retaliate for the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran because it could disrupt efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza.

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A top U.S. official visits Lebanon in a bid to avert a war between Hezbollah and Israel.

Amos Hochstein, one of President Biden’s most trusted national security advisers, met with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Wednesday and called for a cease-fire deal in Gaza that he said would enable a diplomatic resolution between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and “prevent an outbreak of a wider war.”

The Biden administration has been working to tamp down regional tensions and avert a war between Israel and Hezbollah. Mr. Hochstein, who has become the de facto U.S. envoy in the quest to end the conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border , is one of a number of administration officials who have fanned out across the Middle East this week in a bid to nail down a cease-fire deal for the war in Gaza and stave off an attack by Iran and its proxies against Israel.

Cease-fire talks are set to take place in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday and are expected to include top intelligence officials from Egypt, Israel and the United States, as well as the Qatari prime minister. The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement on Wednesday that he had approved the departure of the delegation to Doha and its mandate to negotiate.

Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful regional proxy, has repeatedly said that only an end to Israel’s war in Gaza will lead it to cease its cross-border attacks. And on Wednesday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran would not bow to international pressure from its enemies, state news media reported. Mr. Khamenei said the goal of the pressure was to make Iran retreat but that “tactical withdrawal, whether military or political, economic or propaganda, will bring the wrath of God.”

Mr. Hochstein met with Lebanon’s speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, an influential Hezbollah ally who passes messages back and forth between U.S. officials and the militant group. Afterward, he told reporters, “We continue to believe that a diplomatic resolution is achievable because we continue to believe that no one truly wants a full-scale war between Lebanon and Israel.” Mr. Hochstein warned, however, that there was “no more time to waste and no more valid excuses from any party for any further delay.”

Mr. Hochstein was on his fifth trip to Lebanon since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza more than 10 months ago, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in solidarity with Hamas. Since then, the fighting along the Lebanese-Israeli border has killed over a hundred civilians, displaced more than 160,000 people in both countries and threatened to expand into an all-out war.

The killings last month of top Hezbollah and Hamas leaders have intensified fears of a wider regional conflagration, with the region on edge awaiting the expected retaliation against Israel from Iran and Hezbollah.

“We have to take advantage of this window for diplomatic action and diplomatic solutions,” Mr. Hochstein said in Beirut on Wednesday. “That time is now.”

Mr. Hochstein’s sense of urgency was echoed by the British, German and United States ambassadors to Israel, who on Wednesday met with relatives of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel to call for a cease-fire deal and the return of about 115 captives, dead and alive, believed to be in Gaza. They said that a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas could stave off a wider conflict.

A deal would create “a pathway” for stability in the region, said Jack Lew, the American ambassador to Israel. Steffen Seibert, Germany’s ambassador, added that a deal could “start changing the reality of war into a new reality of peace, of new beginnings.”

Farnaz Fassihi and Ephrat Livni contributed reporting.

An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of the German ambassador to Israel. He is Steffen Seibert, not Selbert.

— Euan Ward reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

Israel draws global condemnation after a cabinet minister’s proclamations at a holy site.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, led a group of his supporters in prayer on Tuesday at a holy site in Jerusalem that is revered by both Jews and Muslims, violating a historical political arrangement and drawing condemnation in Israel and from around the globe.

Mr. Ben-Gvir was seen in videos online singing songs at the holy site, the Temple Mount, where two ancient Jewish temples were located. The site is known to Muslims as the Aqsa Mosque compound and the place from which the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. The longstanding agreement governing the site is that Jews may visit but not pray there, and much of the international community does not recognize Israel’s claim to East Jerusalem, where the site stands. “Our policy is to allow prayer,” Mr. Ben-Gvir said in a video he posted.

The purpose of the visit was also political. In the video, Mr. Ben-Gvir added that Israel must win the war in Gaza rather than attend meetings in Egypt and Qatar — a reference to the upcoming cease-fire negotiations set to take place on Thursday. “This is the message: We can defeat Hamas and bring it to its knees,” he said.

Mr. Ben-Gvir and a crowd estimated at about 2,000 inflamed tensions with leaders across the world and in Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel assailed Mr. Ben-Gvir on Tuesday, in the latest sign of friction between members of the country’s fragile governing coalition.

“It is the government and the prime minister who determine policy on the Temple Mount,” Mr. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, noting that there was no “individual policy” for any minister and that Mr. Ben-Gvir’s decision represented “a deviation from the status quo.”

The actions were taken around the world as a provocation, particularly given that diplomats have been scrambling to calm tensions in the Middle East and hoping that a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas would prevent a further escalation of the conflict following the assassinations last month of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and a Hamas leader in Iran. Israel has claimed responsibility for the death in Lebanon and is widely believed to have been behind the one in Iran. Both Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to retaliate.

In a briefing with reporters on Tuesday, Vedant Patel, a deputy spokesman for the State Department, called Mr. Ben-Gvir’s actions “unacceptable” and noted that the move “detracts” from efforts to reach a cease-fire agreement “at a vital time.”

Qatar, which has been among the nations mediating the negotiations between Israel and Hamas, condemned the prayers at the holy site as an attack “on millions of Muslims around the world.” It warned in a statement from its Foreign Ministry on Tuesday that the move could negatively affect the cease-fire talks .

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry also issued a statement condemning Mr. Ben-Gvir’s decision . It called the move “a provocation to the feelings of Muslims around the world, especially in light of the continuing war and acts of violence against defenseless Palestinians.”

Josep Borrell Fontelles, the European Union’s high commissioner for foreign affairs, also issued a statement “strongly” criticizing “the provocations” by Mr. Ben-Gvir. And France’s Foreign Ministry decried Mr. Ben-Gvir’s defiance of a “longstanding ban on Jewish prayer at the Al-Aqsa mosque,” urging Israel to respect the status quo. “This new provocation is unacceptable,” the French ministry said.

For years, the Israeli government has quietly allowed Jews to pray at the site, but in the videos from the scene on Tuesday, dozens of Jewish visitors are seen fully prostrating themselves in prayer. Some religious officials inside Israel expressed alarm at the flagrant violation.

Moshe Gafni, chair of the religious party United Torah Judaism, said Mr. Ben-Gvir was damaging the Jewish people and defying the dictates of generations of Israel’s chief rabbis. Michael Malchieli, Israel’s religious affairs minister and a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, said Mr. Ben-Gvir’s actions were an “unnecessary and irresponsible provocation against the nations of the world.”

Mr. Ben-Gvir, a settler whose government responsibilities include oversight of the police, has not been circumspect about his expansionist aims or his opposition to a Palestinian state. He strongly opposes a cease-fire with Hamas, and his decision to lead a group to the sensitive site for prayers just as negotiations were set to resume underscored disagreements within Israel over the wisdom of striking a deal and halting the war in Gaza.

There are about 115 hostages — dead and living — believed to still be held in Gaza. Relatives of the hostages on Tuesday accused Mr. Ben-Gvir of repeatedly trying to thwart a cease-fire deal, saying the minister was endangering the chances of bringing their captive family members home.

— Ephrat Livni

Hamas said it wouldn’t participate in the meeting, dimming hopes for a breakthrough.

Mediators and Israeli negotiators were meeting in Qatar on Thursday for a high-stakes push to end the war in Gaza, where tens of thousands have died, as the Middle East braced for an anticipated retaliation against Israel by Iran and its allies that could ignite a broader armed conflict.

The Biden administration and its allies called for the meeting last week, in the hope that making progress toward a Gaza cease-fire might avert or curb the expected Iranian-led reprisals for the recent assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh , the political leader of Hamas, and Fuad Shukr , a top Hezbollah military commander.

But Hamas was not participating in the meeting on Thursday, and it remained at odds with Israel over the details of a proposed framework for a truce being advanced by the mediators, Egypt and Qatar. Under the three-stage proposal, Hamas would gradually free the remaining hostages in Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners jailed by Israel.

International pressure had already been rising for months for some kind of deal that would end the suffering in Gaza and allow for the release of hostages held in the enclave. The Gazan Health Ministry reported on Thursday that the Palestinian death toll in the war had surpassed 40,000. The ministry’s figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.

But prospects for a breakthrough still appear remote, leaving the Middle East facing a precarious moment. The United States has sent stealth fighter jets, a carrier group and a guided-missile submarine to the region in anticipation of an Iranian-led attack.

Israel and Hamas have been holding indirect negotiations on and off for months and are still deadlocked over numerous issues, including who would control the Gazan side of the enclave’s border with Egypt and how Israel could prevent armed Hamas fighters from returning to northern Gaza, which has been largely depopulated during the war.

In recent weeks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has toughened his country’s stance on several points . Hamas announced earlier this week that it would not participate in Thursday’s talks, though Hamas has told mediators it was open to consulting afterward should Israel present a serious response to its latest offer from early July, according to two officials familiar with the talks.

Hamas officials have said Mr. Netanyahu’s government is not genuinely interested in reaching a cease-fire, pointing to the assassination of Mr. Haniyeh in Tehran and the prime minister’s decision to introduce new conditions in recent weeks. “Hamas believes the Israeli occupation is trying to buy time with more negotiations,” said Ibrahim al-Madhoun, an Istanbul-based analyst close to Hamas.

In Israel, Mr. Netanyahu’s far-right coalition allies continue to insist that Israel rule Gaza indefinitely, and they have already denounced the latest Israeli proposal as tantamount to surrender, vowing to oppose it. If Mr. Netanyahu moves ahead with the deal, his governing coalition could splinter, potentially ending his political career .

Mr. Netanyahu himself has equivocated on the cease-fire deal, saying he supports the three-stage proposal even as he repeatedly promises the Israeli public an “absolute victory” over Hamas. Relatives of hostages held in Gaza have argued that the prime minister has prioritized his hold on power over signing a deal to free their loved ones.

Yaron Blum, a former Israeli security official who previously led the country’s effort to bring home hostages, said the meeting on Thursday — even if successful — would be just the start of a protracted process of hashing out the details of a deal. But if the talks go poorly, the region could descend into a wider confrontation, he said.

“If everyone doesn’t work in the coming days until white smoke comes out, I don’t see it coming together going forward,” said Mr. Blum. “But there’s still a chance now, because every side realizes that they need to advance.”

A White House spokesman, John Kirby, said on Thursday morning the talks had resumed and that officials from Egypt and Qatar were in contact with Hamas officials. He said the United States expects talks to continue on Friday.

Mr. Kirby said the American delegation was led by the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, and President Biden’s Middle East envoy, Brett McGurk.

Israel’s delegation is being led by the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea. The other principals in the talks are the head of Egyptian intelligence, Abbas Kamel, and Qatari prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, one of officials familiar with the talks said.

The stakes at the talks are particularly high for the families of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. Over 40 of the 115 hostages are now presumed dead, according to the Israeli authorities.

“Every second there are hostages held in captivity is a severe risk to their lives,” said Jon Polin, the father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, one of eight Israeli-American hostages. Three of them have been declared dead by the Israeli authorities.

In Gaza, most of the enclave’s more than two million people have been displaced, many repeatedly, and are living in tents or temporary lodgings. Finding enough food and safe drinking water is often a daily struggle, and swaths of the coastal enclave have been reduced to rubble.

Anas al-Tayeb, who lives in Jabaliya, just outside of Gaza City, said many there rejoiced in July, the last time mediators said cease-fire talks were progressing. But just a few days later, the Israeli military again stormed neighborhoods in Gaza City.

Mr. al-Tayeb said Israel and Hamas were both responsible for the failure to reach a deal. He wondered why Hamas had declined to accept any of the previous Israeli cease-fire proposals, which have broadly adhered to the three-stage framework.

“Those same conditions were offered before in previous rounds of negotiations,” said Mr. al-Tayeb. “So why didn’t they take it then?”

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, Hersh’s mother, said she believed it was time for everyone to agree to a “true compromise.”

“Not everyone is going to agree,” she said. “But everyone has interests and everyone gets a little bit of the interests they’re looking for. Let’s make that happen and move forward.”

— Aaron Boxerman and Adam Rasgon reporting from Jerusalem

Here is a timeline of Gaza cease-fire talks.

Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip has lasted more than 10 months, with only one weeklong pause in fighting, in late November. That temporary cease-fire led to the return of 50 Israeli hostages captured during the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners — and raised hopes among mediators and the international community that another deal would follow.

Those hopes were dashed repeatedly over many months of unsuccessful efforts by mediators. In the interim, tensions in the Middle East have risen, particularly in recent weeks after the assassinations of a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and a Hamas leader in Iran, prompting vows from Iran and Hezbollah to retaliate against Israel.

World leaders eager to avert a wider full-scale war believe that an agreement between Israel and Hamas could prevent an escalation. Still, even the most vocal champions of a cease-fire admit that closing a deal will be tough. President Biden on Tuesday told reporters he was “not giving up” on an agreement but that it was “getting harder” to remain optimistic.

On Thursday, negotiators are meeting in Doha, Qatar, to try to reach an agreement. Here’s a timeline of recent talks:

May: President Biden calls for an end to the war.

Declaring Hamas no longer capable of carrying out a major terrorist attack on Israel, Mr. Biden on May 31 pressed for hostilities in Gaza to end and endorsed a new cease-fire plan that he said Israel had offered to win the release of hostages.

“It’s time for this war to end, for the day after to begin,” Mr. Biden said that day. Calling it “a decisive moment,” Mr. Biden put the onus on Hamas to reach an agreement, saying, “Israel has made their proposal. Hamas says it wants a cease-fire. This deal is an opportunity to prove whether they really mean it.”

June: U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution.

The United Nations Security Council on June 10 adopted a cease-fire plan backed by the United States, with 14 nations in favor and Russia abstaining. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said that the United States would work to make sure that Israel agreed to the deal and that Qatar and Egypt would work to bring Hamas to the negotiating table.

The resolution followed the same framework that Mr. Biden had endorsed, outlining a three-phase plan that would begin with an immediate cease-fire, the release of all living hostages in exchange for Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, the return of displaced Gazans to their homes and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. The second phase called for a permanent cease-fire with the agreement of both parties, and the third phase consisted of a multiyear reconstruction plan for Gaza and the return of the remains of deceased hostages.

July: Talks in Cairo, Doha and Rome.

When American negotiators met in Doha for talks with Egyptian, Qatari and Israeli officials in early July, some American officials were hopeful that progress was being made. Their optimism persisted when talks continued July 12 in Cairo.

The discussions included two contentious issues: whether Israel would agree to end the war, withdraw from Gaza and respect a permanent cease-fire; and whether Hamas would agree to give up control of the enclave. Both Israel and Hamas were wary about whether the other side was ready to make concessions.

On July 28, negotiators reconvened in Rome . The meeting came as Israel fired on southern Lebanon, responding to a rocket strike from Hezbollah the previous day that killed 12 children in the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

Even as fears intensified that a regional war could escalate, negotiators remained stuck over a few key issues, particularly the extent to which Israeli forces would remain in Gaza during a truce and the length of any halt to the fighting. Hamas wanted a permanent truce, while Israel sought the option to resume fighting.

As the month ended, the crisis in the Middle East deepened. Hezbollah confirmed that one of its senior commanders, Fuad Shukr, was killed in an Israeli strike on a suburb of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, and Hamas accused Israel of killing its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. Iranian officials and Hamas would say later that Israel was responsible for the assassination, an assessment also reached by several U.S. officials, but Israel has not acknowledged involvement.

John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, said on July 31 that it was “too soon to know” what impact the developments might have on negotiations but noted that the United States was still in contact with Egypt and Qatar.

August: A ‘final’ proposal.

President Biden and the leaders of Egypt and Qatar on Aug. 8 said that they were prepared to present a “final” cease-fire proposal and called on Israel and Hamas to return to the negotiating table. In a joint statement , they declared that “the time has come” and insisted that the negotiators meet again on Thursday.

“There is no further time to waste nor excuses from any party for further delay,” they said, adding, “As mediators, if necessary, we are prepared to present a final bridging proposal that resolves the remaining implementation issues in a manner that meets the expectations of all parties.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel agreed to the meeting, though it was not clear if he would agree to a deal.

According to documents reviewed by The New York Times , Israel relayed a list of new stipulations in late July to American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators. Mr. Netanyahu’s office on Tuesday rejected that characterization , saying he sought only to clarify ambiguities. His office accused Hamas of demanding numerous changes .

Hamas’s willingness to compromise is unclear. The group requested its own extensive revisions throughout negotiations and ceded some smaller points in July. On Tuesday a Hamas official said the group would not participate in the new round of negotiations.

Hamas’s absence does not signal that the talks will be fruitless . Its leaders have not met directly with Israeli officials during the war, relying instead on Qatar and Egypt to relay proposals. Vedant Patel, a State Department spokesman, told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that Qatar had assured the United States that Hamas would be represented at the meetings.

The talks are likely to include top intelligence officials from Egypt, Israel and the United States, as well as the Qatari prime minister. Mr. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Wednesday that he had approved the departure of the Israeli delegation to Doha and its mandate to negotiate.

A new Israeli settlement in the West Bank will encroach on a World Heritage Site, activists say.

A new Israeli settlement planned for construction in the occupied West Bank will encroach on Palestinian land recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, Israeli peace activists say.

Much of the international community views Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal, and many were established illegally under Israeli law, but tolerated by the government.

Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right finance minister and a settler himself, gave preliminary approval to the new settlement, Nahal Heletz, in June, and the country’s planning authorities signed off on it on Wednesday.

But the area designated for the settlement was much bigger than what was shown in a plan the government published in July, according to an Israeli advocacy group, Peace Now, which closely tracks settlements. The new plan claims over 150 acres rather than the 30 acres announced previously, and all of it is on UNESCO-designated territory, the group said.

Mr. Smotrich, who is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, has pushed for measures that would expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank in exchange for the release of funds withheld from the Palestinian Authority, which partly administers the territory.

Peace Now accused Mr. Smotrich of disregarding the UNESCO Convention in a statement on Wednesday. Israel is a party to the World Heritage Convention, though it left UNESCO in 2019, accusing the multilateral organization of trying to minimize Jewish ties to the land of Israel. It also objected to the organization’s acceptance of Palestine as a member state in 2011.

Peace Now said that the Israeli authorities were accelerating new claims over West Bank land in an effort to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Tor Wennesland, the United Nations’ special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, said in June that signs of expedited settlement expansion — and the retroactive legalization of West Bank outposts initially established in violation of Israeli law — undermine prospects for a two-state solution.

That is one of Mr. Smotrich’s stated goals. In a post on social media on Wednesday about the newly approved settlement, he said he wold continue to fight what he called “the dangerous idea” of establishing a Palestinian state.

The territory being claimed for the Nahal Heletz settlement is adjacent to the West Bank village of Battir and encroaches on its surrounding area, which UNESCO has designated a World Heritage site because of its terraced farming, irrigation system and architecture, according to the agency’s website.

The World Heritage Convention is the most widely accepted international conservation treaty. There are nine World Heritage sites in Israel.

“UNESCO is closely following the state of conservation of the World Heritage property,” the UNESCO World Heritage Center said in a statement in response to a query about the planned new settlement.

Last month, the governing body of the organization took note “with concern of the reports of ongoing illegal constructions, settlements and other developments within the property and its buffer zone” and asked “all parties to avoid any action that would cause damage to the property.”

In July, the International Court of Justice issued a nonbinding advisory opinion declaring that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and its settlements there, violated international law. The court called for Israel’s presence in the territories to end “as rapidly as possible” and said that Israel was obligated to provide full reparations for the damage it had caused. Mr. Netanyahu dismissed the opinion as “ absurd ” in posts on social media , saying: “The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land.”

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Collection of quotations with no narrative

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A better way to invest

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