Gaza settlers lay siege as MPs vote
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FURIOUS Jewish settlers besieged the Israeli parliament last night in a last-ditch effort to persuade wavering legislators to vote down Ariel Sharonâs controversial plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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A dozen Israeli lawmakers have signed a pledge to join Jewish settlers in resisting the dismantling of settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank &#151; the latest sign that protests could be fierce.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in their first municipal elections under Israeli occupation on Thursday in a test of grassroots support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups.
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Israel's prime minister refuses to bow to angry settlers' demands for a vote on his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a critical vote in Israel&#39;s parliament Wednesday in favor of his plan to withdraw Israeli settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset last night dealt a staggering political blow to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, rejecting on a 53-44 vote his report on the activities of his government, foremost among them his plan to evacuate Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern areas of the West Bank.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won a historic victory yesterday when parliament voted to approve his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank - the first time that legislators have authorized the removal of Jewish settlements from
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Supporters of the Jewish settlement movement demonstrate against Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plan to remove settlements from the Gaza Strip, in front of Israel&#39;s parliament, or Knesset, Monday Oct. 25, 2004.
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Israel's parliament on Wednesday  approved compensation for settlers to be evacuated from Gaza,  clearing a big hurdle for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to  cede the occupied territory to Palestinians.
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Jewish settler leaders have backed a call to resist being evicted from occupied Gaza under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan.
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For much of the day, it appeared Tuesday as if the Jewish settlements of the Gaza Strip had already been evacuated. By the thousands, settlers piled onto buses, leaving behind closed shops and padlocked schools.
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WHAT&#39;S AT STAKE? Parliament will decide whether to evacuate 8,800 settlers from 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank.
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Angry Jewish settlers yesterday said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s rejection of a proposed national referendum on his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip
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Ariel Sharon was today preparing for a crucial vote in the Israeli parliament on his plan to close all Jewish settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Jerusalem -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inaugurated a stormy parliamentary debate Monday over his plan to pull Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers out of the Gaza Strip, telling lawmakers that relinquishing the war-seized territory would leave Israel
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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.