Lapid says Shinui to vote against budget despite pressure
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Party MKs argue abstention would suffice. Meanwhile, Sharon headed for defeat of 2005 state budget, will likely use loss to try and persuade Likud to approve alliance with Labor.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing  alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so  would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Labor Party Chair Shimon Peres is facing growing opposition from his party over his decision to continue coalition talks with Likud despite the Likud convention&#39;s resolution last week against bringing Labor into the government.
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Japan's opposition parties on Sunday kept  up pressure on the health minister to resign for calling women  "birth-giving machines," as voting began in two local elections  the results of which could decide his fate.
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Lib Dem leader says he is facing opposition in his own ranks over refusal to join calls for a referendum
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The Labor Party yesterday refused to support the 2005 budget in a first reading in the Knesset today, saying it will not behave as part of the government until a second vice premiership is created for party chairman Shimon Peres and the party enters the
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CAIRO - A top Hamas leader rejected a call by PLO chief Mahmud Abbas for Palestinian militant groups to lay down their arms in the fight against Israeli occupation, in an interview published Tuesday.
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Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to continue on his path of economic reform, despite the political insecurities facing the government, and said that any party joining government will have to accept the economic policies adopted by the Likud
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JERUSALEM: Most members of Israel&#39;s ruling Likud party want Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to press on with talks to widen his coalition despite a vote by the Likud executive barring any such move, a poll showed on Friday.
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The country's top political adviser, Jia Qinglin, reiterated that the mainland would resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" secessionist activities at a parliament panel discussion with the country's lawmakers yesterday.
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Lebanon's Syrian-backed president says he will not approve moves by a depleted anti-Syrian cabinet.
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Israel is resisting pressure from the Palestinians to set a strict timetable for implementing any statehood principles agreed at a U.S.-sponsored conference, Israeli officials said on Wednesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Monday to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a parliamentary vote on Oct. 25 but rejected his army&#39;s request to scale back its Gaza offensive.
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Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced his long-awaited decision to remain in the government on Tuesday in a meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but it came with a catch: Netanyahu demanded a reassessment of unilateral disengagement.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced  growing pressure on Sunday for a referendum on his plan for an  Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and political  sources said he had not ruled out the idea completely.
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A senior leader of the Islamic Jihad(Holy War) insisted on Saturday that his movement would reject any ceasefire or long-term truce with Israel.