As Gaza Vote Looms, Israel Warns of Civil War Risk
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Israel&#39;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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Arab countries are eyeing the chaos in Gaza with alarm, fearing that the Palestinian fighting could spread to the West Bank and further destabilize the region. The Arab League chief on Thursday called for a cease-fire, warning of disaster otherwise.
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Israelâs police chief Moshe Karadi is worried by the mounting militancy in the settler community against next summerâs planned withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank, which now seems a done deal as the coalition deal between Labor and Likud
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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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Israelâs Shin Bet security service has tightened protection of the prime minister, MPs and parliament ahead of next weekâs crucial vote on a Gaza withdrawal.
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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 - 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.    The maneuvering came Monday at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, with Sharon heading a government that lost its majority over the Gaza pullout and is vulnerable to being toppled...
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A deadly Palestinian attack in the West Bank drew a threat from Israel Saturday to scrap a promise to limit military operations on the eve of a presidential election to pick a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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JERUSALEM Israel&#39;s prime minister held a stormy meeting today with Jewish settlers, who raised the specter of civil war unless he changes his course on Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Israel has faced an increasingly complex set of military options to stop attacks from the territory, and a debate over its humanitarian responsibilities for the strip's 1.4 million people.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accused far-rightists on Sunday of trying to incite civil war over his plan to withdraw from the occupied Gaza Strip and called for measures to curb such groups.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians accused Israel  of not carrying out a promised easing of its military grip on  the West Bank and Gaza for a presidential election to pick  Yasser Arafat's 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.
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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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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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Israeli lawmakers held a stormy debate on Ariel Sharonâs Gaza withdrawal plan ahead of a critical vote today that could give the prime minister crucial support for pushing forward.
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The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is preparing to vote tonight on a controversial plan to withdraw Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip.