Sharon&#39;s political survival entwined with pullout vote
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JERUSALEM - Shattering decades of public policy, the Israeli Parliament has, for the first time in the nation&#39;s history, approved a plan to uproot Jewish settlements from lands claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.
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PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon has narrowly survived three parliamentary no-confidence votes sponsored by opposition parties over deepening poverty in Israel.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's plan to pull out of Gaza next year passed a crucial test yesterday when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, his government crippled by opposition to the withdrawal, easily won Likud Party approval to invite the dovish Labor Party into his coalition.
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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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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, won what he called the most important vote of his political life on Tuesday night, as the Israeli Parliament approved his plan to remove all Israeli settlements from Gaza.
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Recent events in the Middle East have the potential to positively impact the region. Lost amongst all of the coverage of Yasser Arafat&#39;s passing was a historic 67-45 vote by Israel&#39;s parliament
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Jerusalem: Despite several defeats on the battlefield, Ariel Sharon, the former general turned Israeli prime minister, has finally won the war to implement his Gaza pullout plan after neutralising his internal enemies.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon was savouring a dramatic victory for his Gaza pullout plan on Wednesday after MPs gave the green light to the first ever evacuation of occupied Palestinian territory.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has submitted his Gaza withdrawal plan for a crucial parliamentary vote, while tanks and troops have killed 14 Palestinians in a raid in the coastal strip.
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Israel&#39;s parliament is debating Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a plan that has split the ruling party and divided the country.
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Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s proposal to pull out of the Gaza strip received a major boost on Friday when he won approval from his Likud party to form a broader coalition with opposition parties.
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2004 was the year of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death and of Ariel Sharon&#39;s decision to withdraw unilaterally from illegal Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
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TEL AVIV A shaky political system here raised a huge question mark last week over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ability to pursue his only existing diplomatic plan - the initiative to evacuate the Gaza strip and to remove some of the Israeli settlements
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has locked up enough support to win a scheduled parliamentary vote on his Gaza withdrawal plan, but is deeply concerned about growing fissures within the ruling Likud Party, aides said Thursday.
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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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JERUSALEM, Oct 21  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looked Thursday to maximise his majority in next week&#39;s crucial parliamentary vote on his Gaza pullout plan, buoyed by predictions that he was assured of victory.
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JERUSALEM - Facing unrelenting criticism from Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.    Also Monday, scattered fighting in the Gaza Strip killed at least five Palestinian militants, including two Palestinians who infiltrated Israel from Gaza early Monday and were shot in a lengthy gunbattle...