Israeli Labour party could clinch coalition deal with Sharon &#39;in ...
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Israel&#39;s opposition Labour party began talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party yesterday about joining its coalition - a partnership aimed at promoting a military withdrawal from Gaza.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister stepped up efforts yesterday to overcome resistance within his right-wing Likud party to include Labour in an enlarged government coalition, ahead of a decisive party meeting next week.
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Israel&#39;s ruling Likud and opposition Labour parties plan to seal a deal to forge a unity coalition seen as crucial to carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza pullout plan, party officials say.
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Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peresand Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have agreed in principlethat if a national unity government is formed, it will last till November 2006
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WHAT HAPPENED: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party approves inviting the dovish Labor Party into a coalition government.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Labour Party leader Shimon Peres reached a deal on Thursday that appeared to clear a final obstacle towards forming a unity government that would press ahead with a Gaza pullout.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel looked poised for a new coalition government within a week as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began talks with ultra-Orthodox parties alongside negotiations with the main opposition Labour faction.
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Israeli opposition leader Shimon  Peres said on Saturday coalition talks between his party and  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be resolved in days, a move  likely to avert snap elections and promote a Gaza pullout.
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With its latest victory at the Likud Party convention under its belt, the settlement movement intends to deal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan for unilateral separation its final blow in a door-to-door campaign that organizers say could reach one
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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.  Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot  by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow  him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity  coalition to shore up his shattered government.
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JERUSALEM A spokesman for Israel&#39;s Labor Party says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (ah-ree-EL&#39; shah-ROHN&#39;) is inviting his traditional rival into the government coalition.
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The Israeli cabinet met on Sunday as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party and opposition Labour Party worked to finalise their pact to form a coalition government.
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The central committee of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party began voting Thursday on a resolution that would allow him to form a new governing coalition including the Labor Party.
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Israeli political parties were yesterday bogged down in hard bargaining over the formation of a new coalition government to implement the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced yesterday that if senior coalition partner Shinui makes good on its threat to quit the government - as they have threatened - then he will immediately start negotiating with Labor to take its place, and will consider
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Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister, and Shimon Peres, Labour opposition leader, on Friday reached a deal on forming a new coalition early next week, their spokesmen said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.