Peres deal crucial to Gaza pull-out
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THE Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, reached a deal with Shimon Peres yesterday to name the opposition leader as his senior deputy - clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel is prepared to coordinate its pullout from Gaza with a new Palestinian government, officials said yesterday, a shift from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's concept of &quot;unilateral disengagement&quot; and a sign that cooperation may be restored in the post-Arafat era.
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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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Israel's divided parliament is widely  expected to ratify Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza  withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a pivotal step toward the first  evacuation of settlers from lands Palestinians want for a  state.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli Knesset appeared set today to approve a historic withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the occupied territories following an emotional appeal yesterday by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and a major strike against Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Israel's divided parliament is widely expected to ratify Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a crucial step toward the first evacuation of settlers from lands Palestinians want for a state.
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THE Israeli Labor party leader Shimon Peres, who is due to begin negotiations today over forming a coalition with the ruling Likud party, believes that Ariel Sharon will eventually be prepared to withdraw from more West Bank land than the small amount
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud signed agreements with left-of-center Labour and an  ultra-Orthodox party on Thursday, giving his coalition a  parliamentary majority to allow a planned Gaza withdrawal.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud  party and opposition Labor haggled over power-sharing on Sunday  in a coalition deal crucial for pushing through an Israeli  withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israel's Cabinet approved a compensation plan Sunday for settlers who will be uprooted by Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, handing the prime minister an important victory two days before a showdown in parliament over the pullout.
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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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Coalition negotiating teams of the Likud and Labor Parties agreed today that Peres will become Israel&#39;s first-ever &quot;Associate Prime Minister&quot; and the senior minister in the government after the Prime Minister.
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ELEANOR HALL: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looks assured of winning crucial parliamentary approval for his controversial plan to pull Jewish settlers out of Gaza.
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Labor will enter a coalition government with the Likud to make sure Prime Minister Ariel Sharon can carry out his disengagement plan, Opposition leader Shimon Peres said Monday.
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Israel's divided parliament ratified  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday,  a pivotal step toward the first evacuation of settlers from  occupied territory Palestinians want for a state.
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JERUSALEM The former Labor prime minister, Shimon Peres, once famously said that there are no real negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, but only among Israelis themselves, about what is safe to concede.
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Israel's parliament ratified Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a pivotal step toward the first evacuation of settlers from occupied territory Palestinians want for a state.