Sharon Sacrifices Government for Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, won a victory with the Knesset&#39;s approval of his plan to withdraw from 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank, but is now being threatened by internal and external forces.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon crashed to defeat in a parliamentary budget vote Wednesday and fired his main coalition partner, signaling the potential collapse of his government and endangering his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  crashed to defeat in a parliamentary budget vote on Wednesday  likely to shatter his coalition and endanger his plan to  withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ruling coalition was in tatters Wednesday night after he tossed his main political partner out of the government for defying him on a key budget measure.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accepted an army plan to reduce the number of soldiers mounting an operation in the Gaza Strip aimed at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  on Monday submitted his Gaza withdrawal plan for a crucial  parliamentary vote, while tanks and troops killed 16  Palestinians in a raid against militants in the coastal strip.
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Prime Minister Sharon, his right-wing base decimated by opposition to his Gaza disengagement plan, lost his last coalition partner and moved perilously close to losing his government
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is taking a huge political risk in ordering the pullout of settlers from the Gaza Strip. It is a gamble worth taking.
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AN Israeli parliament vote against the state budget has triggered a political crisis that could topple Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs government and scupper his plan to pull out of Gaza and part of the West Bank next year.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected calls from within his mutinous cabinet on Wednesday for a referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition in protest over the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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In a bold and controversial move, Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon has decided to pull out and destroy all Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
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to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a referendum and vowed to carry it out on schedule. withdrawal. Sharon has denounced his hardline opponents as threatening to lead Israel into civil war.
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JERUSALEM Aug 20 - Humiliated by his own party and under pressure from the opposition to call new elections, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appears in no position to ensure the implementation of his Gaza pullout plan.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today fired a rebel cabinet minister and deputy cabinet minister after they voted against his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip next year, Israeli media said.
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The Israeli parliament rejected the proposed 2005 budget. Subsequently, Sharon fired the five cabinet ministers belonging to his coalition government's second-largest partner, effectively dismantling the coalition.
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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.