&#39;Still Committed to Road Map&#39;, says Sharon
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reaffirmed his commitment to a Middle East peace initiative, despite comments from one of his senior advisers who effectively dismissed the plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan despite his own party&#39;s humiliating rebuff of his bid to forge a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 19, 2004  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday that he would push ahead with a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, despite a stinging setback to the plan from his Likud Party.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agreed  Wednesday to changes in the route of Israel's West Bank barrier  but insisted on keeping key Jewish settlement blocks inside,  political sources said.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon acknowledged that Israel was not following the moribund Mideast peace plan, and said an Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip was unlikely to revive it, according
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Facing unrelenting criticism from Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a governing coalition with Shimon  Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned  Gaza pullout.
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday he would not pull his Labour party out of the government, ensuring Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition holds together for now despite a critical Lebanon war report.
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The White House insisted on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is committed to the US-backed road map Middle East peace plan, despite his comments in a newspaper interview that suggested otherwise.
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Israel will not follow the &quot;road map,&quot; Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published yesterday, acknowledging that he is casting aside the US-backed peace plan for now, even as Washington insists it is still valid.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed yesterday not to yield to pressure by Jewish settlers to give up his plan to withdraw soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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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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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday Israel should not miss the chance to reach a &quot;breakthrough&quot; in its relations with the Palestinians in 2005.
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The Israeli prime minister is clearly determined to push through his plan. He told a convention of the Likud party: &quot;This plan will be applied, and that&#39;s it.
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Jerusalem, Sept. 15 (PTI): Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, has brushed aside suggestions for a national referendum on the Gaza evacuation plan, saying &quot;it is not on the agenda&quot; as the schedule set for
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Israel will keep troops in the Gaza Strip indefinitely to prevent Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns, Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, said yesterday.
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In recent interviews, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made it unequivocally clear that the &quot;road map&quot; is done for. He is betting on the disengagement from Gaza as an isolated move that