Sharon invites opposition to join coalition
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reached out to his opposition rival with an invitation to enter discussion on forming a new coalition government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called opposition Labor party leader Shimon Peres yesterday to start talks on forming a coalition government, a government source said.
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to rally support for the building of a new coalition to implement his planned pullout from Gaza, where two Palestinian militants and an Israeli soldier were killed in a new upsurge of violence.
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JERUSALEM : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party votes on Sharon&#39;s intention to bring the opposition Labour party into government, the day after he gave the green light to the construction of 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon invites Labour leader Shimon Peres to start talks on the formation of a coalition.
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Israel&#39;s opposition Labour party has authorised its leader to begin talks on joining a national unity government. Shimon Peres was to begin the talks immediately, one of his aides said.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, yesterday invited Shimon Peres - an old friend but sometimes a political adversary - to join his government as the two grand old men of Israeli politics prepared to unite to see through a plan to move Jewish
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  hopes to persuade his divided Likud party to back him on  Thursday in a vote on rebuilding the government, averting snap  elections and pushing through his Gaza withdrawal plan. In an  11th-hour challenge, Likud rebels opposed to ceding land to the  Palestinians filed a court petition against Sharon's bid to  bring the opposition Labour party into the coalition.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister stepped up efforts yesterday to overcome resistance within his right-wing Likud party to include Labour in an enlarged government coalition, ahead of a decisive party meeting next week.
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Israel's opposition Labour party said  on Sunday it had no preconditions for joining with Prime  Minister Ariel Sharon, paving the way for a broad new  government to push through his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon now finds himself in a difficult position following this week&#39;s rejection by his own Likud party of his plan to bring the opposition Labour Party into the coalition government. Following ...
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Israel's opposition Labour party starts late-night coalition talks with the governing Likud party.
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Israel's opposition Labour party has  clinched a deal with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party  to join his coalition, a move that could push forward his Gaza  pullout plan, Israeli media reported on Friday.
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JERUSALEM A spokesman for Israel&#39;s Labor Party says Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (ah-ree-EL&#39; shah-ROHN&#39;) is inviting his traditional rival into the government coalition.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s opposition Labour Party has agreed to join a coalition with Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party, a move seen as safeguarding the prime minister&#39;s vow to withdraw from Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party and opposition Labour were working to iron out last  minute hitches to forging a unity coalition crucial to carrying  out Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approached the opposition Labour Party with a tentative offer to join his shaky coalition, in hopes of avoiding early elections and saving his Gaza withdrawal plan.