As Gaza Vote Looms, Israel Warns of Civil War Risk
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Israel's justice minister warned on  Thursday that far-right rabbis who urge soldiers to disobey  orders to evacuate Jewish settlements in Gaza were flirting  with civil war and could face prosecution.
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Israel's parliament took  extraordinary security steps Wednesday for a vote next week on  a Gaza pullout plan expected to spark Jewish settler protests  and heighten death threats against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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ELEANOR HALL: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned he might call early elections, following a major setback to his plans to withdraw Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Monday to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a parliamentary vote on Oct. 25, despite persistent violence in the coastal strip
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Israel's parliament took  extraordinary security steps on Wednesday for a vote next week  on a Gaza pullout plan expected to spark Jewish settler  protests and heighten death threats against Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon.
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JERUSALEM - Israelâs parliament opens what is expected to be a stormy winter session with a warning from the speaker that passions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs planned Gaza pullout next year could boil over into fistfights, and the government
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has received a surprise challenge to his plan to expedite a pullout from Gaza after Benjamin Netanyahu, his main rival in the Likud party, called for a referendum on the issue.
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Israel's prime minister warns of snap elections if leading Likud party members fail to back a coalition with Labour.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has alienated his right-wing Likud party with plans to withdraw from Gaza, begins a new legislative session fighting for his government's survival.    Lawmakers were scheduled to vote on two motions of no confidence Monday, the first day of Israel's winter parliamentary session...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing  alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so  would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israel's justice minister has warned  that far-right rabbis who urge religious soldiers to disobey  orders to evacuate Jewish settlements in Gaza could face  prosecution, saying such calls risk sparking civil war.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israelâs battle against the militant group that controls Gaza a âtrue war.â
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An Israeli soldier and two Palestinian  militants were killed on Tuesday in the heaviest Gaza fighting  since Yasser Arafat's death, raising the prospect that renewed  violence could complicate a vote for his successor.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan. Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity coalition to shore up his shattered government.
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RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 -- All but sealed off by Egypt and Israel, Gaza presented an intensifying security concern to its neighbors and a fast-approaching humanitarian crisis Sunday, three days after its takeover by Hamas.
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Israel's justice minister said on  Thursday far-right rabbis who urge soldiers to disobey orders  to evacuate Jewish settlements in Gaza risk provoking civil war  and could face prosecution.
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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.