Israel Says West Bank Troop Pullback Possible Soon
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Israel is likely to pull back its  troops from several West Bank cities within days, Defense  Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday, in a further sign of  cooperation with a new Palestinian leadership.
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Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of its planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, its defense minister said, signaling that a deadly attack on an Israeli army outpost has not derailed peace efforts.
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Israel's army chief said Wednesday his nation's troops were unlikely to withdraw from Lebanon by the weekend, as he initially predicted, because final details remained to be worked out with the U.N. ...
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Israel held out the prospect on  Monday of coordinating a planned unilateral Gaza pullout with  the Palestinians if a new leadership succeeding Yasser Arafat  cracked down on militants.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  decided on Thursday that Israeli forces could withdraw from a  teeming refugee camp in northern Gaza, media reports said.
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Israel won't be able to carry out a major West Bank pullback for 2 1/2 years because it first needs a missile defense system in place to protect it against Palestinian rocket fire, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a parliamentary committee yesterday.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel renewed its threat on Monday to remove Yasser Arafat but hinted it had delayed taking action against the Palestinian president to avoid complicating a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel has said it would consider any formal request to pull troops away from West Bank cities to facilitate a Palestinian presidential election, ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials said yesterday that they were prepared to remove soldiers and military checkpoints from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to make it easier for voters to take part in the Palestinian presidential election, slated for Jan. 9.
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Israel reversed course yesterday and said it might coordinate next year&#39;s Gaza Strip pullout with the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians crack down on militants, a sign that
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Israel said before a visit by  Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday that it would  consider calls to pull its troops away from West Bank cities to  facilitate a Palestinian presidential election.
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The Israeli army will pull out of   Lebanon within a few days, a legislator quoted the military's   chief of staff as saying on Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to walk away from his first visit to the United States without getting the Bush administration to put its heft behind Olmert&#039;s sweeping West Bank pullback plan.
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Israel signaled on Saturday it could  ease back military operations against Palestinian militants if  they halted attacks, but the guerrillas said only a full  Israeli cease-fire could stop fighting.
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Responding to growing threats of insubordination, Israel's army chief announced Thursday he'll expel officers and soldiers who refuse to participate in a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Israel could remove dozens of Jewish settlements from the occupied West Bank, Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Saturday.