Israeli leader turns to old rivals to save government and enable ...
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Fresh from a painful parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he&#39;ll turn to his old rivals in the Labour party to save his shattered coalition and get the support he needs to leave the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli president aims to shore up Abbas in wake of Hamas taking Gaza Strip.
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ERUSALEM, Aug. 17 - The day before the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, faces sharp debate about his policies at his Likud Party convention, his government made an effort on Tuesday to pacify his critics, issuing tenders for 1,001 ...
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Ariel Sharon pledged today to enter talks with opposition parties to rebuild his shattered governing coalition and avert early elections that would jeopardise his plans to withdraw from Gaza.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel was on the verge of a new coalition government after a deal was reached to install opposition leader Shimon Peres as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s official number two.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party and opposition Labour were working to iron out last  minute hitches to forging a unity coalition crucial to carrying  out Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
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Israel&#39;s opposition Labour party has authorised its leader to begin talks on joining a national unity government. Shimon Peres was to begin the talks immediately, one of his aides said.
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As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinians alike are struggling with issues of political life and the forming of functioning governments, it is the former who may offer a lead to elements of the latter.
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Israel&#39;s Opposition Labour Party leader Shimon Peres has responded positively to an invitation by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to form a unity government.
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Justice on the part of Israel does not come easily, especially with a government led by the historically hard-line Ariel Sharon. It was the job on Sunday of outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell to encourage
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Ariel Sharon, Israel&#39;s prime minister, is fighting to save his government - and Gaza withdrawal plan - after a split in his coalition over his budget plan.
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The head of Israel&#39;s opposition Labor Party signaled Thursday that his party is not only willing but eager to join a unity government with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon because it backs his plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of
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Jordan's monarch makes a dramatic appeal for peace in a TIME interview--and reveals a new initiative reaching out to ordinary Israelis
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  hopes to persuade his divided Likud party to back him on  Thursday in a vote on rebuilding the government, averting snap  elections and pushing through his Gaza withdrawal plan. In an  11th-hour challenge, Likud rebels opposed to ceding land to the  Palestinians filed a court petition against Sharon's bid to  bring the opposition Labour party into the coalition.
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Shinui Party leader MK Tommy Lapid is calling on Labor leader Shimon Peres to âkeep his promiseâ and push for a secular government.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confronted Likud party rebels with a pledge to put the good of Israel first Wednesday as he battled to avoid an embarrassing defeat over his Gaza pullout plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appealed to his Likud Party to support a crucial proposal Thursday that would let him broaden his coalition to ensure the survival of his