Sharon heralds a new era of peace
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DECLARING the occupation of one nation by another to be &quot;a horrible disaster for both peoples&quot;, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday the coming year offered a historic opportunity for peace with the Palestinians.
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Israel is ready to coordinate its planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip with the new Palestinian leadership, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a published interview, saying he wants to take advantage of new opportunities created by the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the go ahead for a project tender that foresees the construction of 1,000 new Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands.
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The top U.N. envoy in the Middle East said Monday there is a new opportunity for peace, citing recent statements from the Israeli and Palestinian leadership as well as President Bush.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the new Palestinian leadership to show it wants peace by ending propaganda against Israel.
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Although peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians stalled several years ago, todayâs death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat marked the end of an era in the Middle East peace process.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said he was very satisfied with efforts by Palestinian  President Mahmoud Abbas to restore calm and pledged in an  interview published on Thursday to pursue peace with him.
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Ariel Sharon, Israel&#39;s prime minister, pledged on Thursday to forge a new national unity government with opposition parties after parliament&#39;s overwhelming rejection of his budget shattered the existing coalition.
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BEIJING, Dec. 31 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and veteran Labor Party leader Shimon Peres agreed Thursday on a title for Peres, paving the way for the establishment of the coalition government.
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The somber official end to mourning for  Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of  optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair say there is a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East, following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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ARIEL SHARON, the Israeli Prime Minister, made his first conciliatory gesture towards Palestinians after the death of Yassir Arafat when he said that he would consider co-ordinating the dismantling of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip with a new
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IN ADVANCE of a showdown with Likud party hard-liners, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s government yesterday issued its largest authorisation of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank since the unveiling of the international peace ...
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JERUSALEMâWith his political life in the balance, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took the first tentative steps on the path to peace last night, winning parliamentary consent for a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of
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Tony Blair has arrived in Israel to launch a new push for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The Prime Minister is to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published Sunday that he is ready to co-ordinate Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to take advantage of new opportunities created by the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to seek parliamentary approval for his new cabinet shortly.