Shrugging Off Mutiny, Sharon Rejects Gaza Referendum
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon rejected  calls from within his mutinous cabinet Wednesday for a  referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support  to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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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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Jewish settler leaders emerged seething yesterday from a meeting with Ariel Sharon, who rejected their demand for a referendum on the Prime Minister&#39;s plan to evacuate 21 settlements from the Gaza Strip by the end of next year.
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lost an important budget vote Wednesday in Parliament that imperils his government but does not quite collapse it.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s rebellious Likud party has dealt a severe setback to his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Israel's parliament on Monday voted  to reject a session-opening speech by Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon, dealing a symbolic setback to his disputed plan to  withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday reiterated his objection to holding a referendum on the Gaza disengagement plan. Speaking with Justice Minister Yosef Lapid (Shinui) Tuesday afternoon, Sharon said &quot;the
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip suffered a symbolic setback on Monday when the legislature voted to reject the speech in which he raised the proposal.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is withholding his approval to wrap up the military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, despite the Israel Defense Forces&#39; recommendation to withdraw.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected a call from a key political rival from his own Likud Party for a national referendum on his plan to withdraw all Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,  unmoved by tens of thousands of people rallying against his  Gaza pullout plan, faced a vote Monday by a traditional  political ally over whether to desert his minority government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party voted on Wednesday to bar him from forming a coalition with the Labour opposition, an embarrassing blow that complicates his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  failed Monday to persuade his security cabinet to speed up a  Gaza withdrawal agreed in principle by the government two  months ago, political sources said.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's own party handed him a stinging rebuke, banning him from adding the moderate Labor Party to his government to bolster a Gaza pullout plan &#151; a move that endangered the proposed withdrawal.
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The Israeli parliament gave a symbolic slap to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, voting against a statement defending his Gaza pullout plan, but he survived two no-confidence motions and pledged to bring the withdrawal itself to a vote in two weeks.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon acknowledged that Israel was not following the moribund Mideast peace plan, and said an Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip was unlikely to revive it, according
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  on Tuesday rejected a call from Benjamin Netanyahu, his main  rival in the Likud party, to put his Gaza withdrawal plan to a  referendum and vowed to carry it out on schedule.