Sharon Gives Military Free Rein Against Militants
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on  Sunday he was giving Israel's army free rein to battle  militants in Gaza and accused the new Palestinian leadership he  now shuns of doing nothing to stop attacks on Israelis.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said on Tuesday that he would consider coordinating a pullout  from the Gaza Strip with a new Palestinian leadership if it  curbed attacks on Israelis.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has asked his cabinet to approve a range of measures meant to ensure next month&#39;s Palestinian elections are conducted in a free and fair atmosphere.
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Israeli PM says his country Israel will &#39;maintain calm&#39; in absence of Palestinian militantsâ attacks. JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel would &quot;maintain the calm&quot; in the absence of attacks
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel told the army to do whatever was needed to end Palestinian rocket, mortar, and bomb attacks, and the government dismissed a call yesterday by the Palestinian leadership for a halt to militant violence, hours before Palestinians said Israeli tank fire had killed a 28-year-old man and his mother in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected  his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to  avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings in Egyptian  resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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&quot;We acted against the heads of Hamas ... in a way we found right at the right time when it was convenient for us,&quot;. Sharon said on Wednesday.
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Armed groups are urged to end attacks on Israel, as Ariel Sharon threatens to crack down on Palestinian militants.
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Israel announces measures to ensure what PM Ariel Sharon calls a "free and fair" Palestinian election.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon says Palestinians must take tougher measures against militants to advance peace hopes.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a major Israeli offensive that would re-occupy northern parts of the Gaza Strip to stop Palestinian fighters firing homemade rockets into Israel , Israeli Army Radio said.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who wants to dismantle some settlements and withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, warned Sunday of a crackdown because some of his opponents on the religious right are threatening violence.
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Israel's Ariel Sharon has rejected  his army's request to scale back its Gaza offensive, seeking to  avoid any show of weakness after deadly bombings hit Egyptian  resorts crowded with Israelis, security sources said.
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The Israeli prime minister Ariel said peace talks depend on whether militants are reined in.
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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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Israeli army officials said that they had stopped most search-and-arrest operations against Palestinian militants and were easing security restrictions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to allow Palestinians greater freedom to vote Sunday for a new president.