Sharon, now a dear old softy, can only detract from Palestinian ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not known for a kindly disposition toward the Palestinians, nor for a gentle approach to the issue of a Palestinian state.
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In interview with âFinancial Timesâ, PA chief says, âWith Sharon itâs much harderâ. Claims contacts with Sharon still held through his son MK Omri Sharon.
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The nature of Israeli occupation will not change overnight. The savagery that the Sharon government adopts in dealing with the Palestinians will not change.
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IN WINNING a crucial Knesset vote Tuesday in favor of his plan for a unilateral disengagement from Gaza, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon resembled a leopard who, against all logic, changed a few of his spots.
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In the end Ariel Sharon was the last man standing in his decades-long sparring match with Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader he threatened to kill but ultimately left to waste away in a dusty West Bank compound.
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YONATAN Bassi chuckled when asked if he had just taken on the toughest job in Israel. &quot;Iâm not afraid of anything,&quot; said the Israeli who has been appointed head of the body charged with overseeing the removal
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Facing withering criticism from Jewish settlers, and from his within his own Likud party, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday nothing would
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chief of staff on Thursday called a Gaza withdrawal plan a possible step toward a Palestinian state, in a clear sign of softening following Yasser Arafat's death.
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Elections, many Palestinians now argue, are the only way to prevent Israel from using an erosion of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as an excuse to implement its own plan for the de facto creation of scattered Palestinian &quot;cantons&quot; -- created by the
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&quot;Sharon, for all his record of opposition to doing business with the Palestinians, is seeing the death of Arafat and the expected arrival of Mahmoud Abbas as a new chance.
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The sudden deterioration in the health of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat reminded the world that he has his place in history in spite of the many attempts by Israel - and especially by
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When Yasser Arafat died last week of an undisclosed illness, he left his Palestinian supporters bereft of their greatest modern ally.
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ISRAELI PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon succeeded this week in taking an important step toward the removal of Israeli settlements and soldiers from the Gaza Strip -- only to be overshadowed by the potentially grave illness of his old nemesis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  chief of staff on Thursday called a Gaza withdrawal plan a  possible step toward a Palestinian state, in a clear sign of  softening following Yasser Arafat's death.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has admitted for the first time that his government does not intend to honour the American-backed &quot;road map&quot; to peace.
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The next few weeks may reveal whether or not Prime Minister Sharon will succeed in cobbling together a government that will implement his Gaza withdrawal plan. It is disconcerting to see how difficult he is finding it to ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 28 -- No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years. Only a throng of reporters assembled, peering through the smoked windows of sedans carrying officials to a frail old man who still embodies the national aspirations of many Palestinians.