Israeli Minister Retracts Threat to Quit
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime
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Israel's prime minister on Tuesday brushed aside suggestions that the threat from Iran's nuclear program has receded, saying he remains convinced that Tehran is "moving forward" with plans for an atomic weapon.
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JERUSALEM Aug. 18, 2004  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday rebuffed rebellious members of his own Likud Party and signaled he would seek an alliance with the opposition Labor to gain support for his plan for pulling out of the Gaza Strip.
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A top Israeli defense official said Thursday that Israel wants to relinquish all responsibility for the Gaza Strip, including the supply of electricity and water, now that the territory's southern border with Egypt has been opened.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday warned the United States against a quick departure from Iraq, saying it would lead to instability in the region and undermine Washington's ability to deal with emerging threats.
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Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced his long-awaited decision to remain in the government on Tuesday in a meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but it came with a catch: Netanyahu demanded a reassessment of unilateral disengagement.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said if senior coalition partner Shinui makes good on its threat to quit the government, he will immediately start negotiating with the
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense minister, undaunted by growing resistance within the ruling party to a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip, said yesterday that the army's blueprint for the withdrawal will be ready next month.
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A respected lawyer advising Israeli President Moshe Katsav over accusations of rape and sexual assault has quit, Katsav's office said Sunday in the latest turn in a seven-month scandal which has brought calls for his dismissal.
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In a policy reversal, Israel said Monday it might co-ordinate next year&#39;s Gaza pullout with the Palestinian Authority if it cracks down on militants, the first indication it is reassessing relations with the Palestinians after Yasser
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Israel dismissed a group of reservist  military officers on Sunday who threatened they would disobey  an order to evacuate Jewish settlements under a Gaza pullout  plan, one of the officers said.
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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Israel threatened again on Thursday  to "remove" Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was last night negotiating with the Labour Party and ultra-religious groups in a make-or-break bid to build a new coalition capable of ensuring a Gaza Strip pullout next year, after he dismissed the five ministers of
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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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The Israeli prime minister said today that he wanted to begin withdrawing settlers from Gaza next May or June.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s deputy repeated a call, rejected in the past by the Israeli prime minister, for a wider withdrawal from the West Bank after a planned pullout from parts of the occupied Palestinian territory and Gaza.