Shrugging Off Mutiny, Sharon Rejects Gaza Referendum
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected  calls from within his mutinous cabinet Wednesday for a  referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support  to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says his country will not take part in an expected Middle East conference.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday met with the chief opponents of his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and rejected calls from the Jewish settlers to hold a national referendum on the proposed pullout, participants in the meeting said.
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Jewish settler leaders emerged seething yesterday from a meeting with Ariel Sharon, who rejected their demand for a referendum on the Prime Minister&#39;s plan to evacuate 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip by the end of next year.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza Strip withdrawal plan and his very political future were in question last night after his right-wing Likud party voted to prevent him from forming a national unity government with ...
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Israel&#39;s parliament voted against the state budget Wednesday, triggering a political crisis that could topple Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s government and stall his plan to pull out of Gaza and part of the West Bank next year.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip proposed by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, turned out in a show of force across Israel last night.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  faced a surprise challenge on Monday to his plan to expedite a  pullout from Gaza when Benjamin Netanyahu, his main rival in  the Likud party, called for a referendum on the issue.
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JERUSALEM -- Supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon argued heatedly yesterday over the need for a national referendum on the government's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate  occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad  coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected  calls from within his mutinous cabinet on Wednesday for a  referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support  to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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The Palestinians have decided not to bring a draft resolution condemning Israel&#39;s military operation in the northern Gaza
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The Israeli parliament gave a symbolic slap to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, voting against a statement defending his Gaza pullout plan, but he survived two no-confidence motions and pledged to bring the withdrawal itself to a vote in two weeks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  failed Monday to persuade his security cabinet to speed up a  Gaza withdrawal agreed in principle by the government two  months ago, political sources said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has voted to bar him from forming a coalition with the Labour opposition, an embarrassing blow that complicates his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon survived two no-confidence votes in Israel's parliament on Monday, clinging to power as he seeks to push through a disputed plan for withdrawal from some occupied territory.