Sharon Under New Pressure for Gaza Referendum
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced  growing pressure on Sunday for a referendum on his plan for an  Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and political  sources said he had not ruled out the idea completely.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel rejected calls from within his Cabinet yesterday for a referendum on leaving Gaza after winning parliament's support to uproot settlements from land claimed by Palestinians.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched new efforts to widen his shaky coalition after a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon renewed efforts yesterday to expand his embattled coalition government, declaring the current political deadlock untenable after his Gaza pullout plan suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  faced a surprise challenge on Monday to his plan to expedite a  pullout from Gaza when Benjamin Netanyahu, his main rival in  the Likud party, called for a referendum on the issue.
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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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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday rejected calls from Jewish settlers to hold a nationwide referendum on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, escalating an increasingly bitter dispute between the one-time allies.
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ELEANOR HALL: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has warned he might call early elections, following a major setback to his plans to withdraw Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the architect of the Gaza withdrawal plan, has reportedly been threatened and has been put under tight security after harsh reactions by religious groups.
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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.  Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot  by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow  him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity  coalition to shore up his shattered government.
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TEL AVIV A shaky political system here raised a huge question mark last week over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ability to pursue his only existing diplomatic plan - the initiative to evacuate the Gaza strip and to remove some of the Israeli settlements
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FURIOUS Jewish settlers besieged the Israeli parliament last night in a last-ditch effort to persuade wavering legislators to vote down Ariel Sharonâs controversial plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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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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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faced threats on Thursday from inside and outside his already shaky coalition that could bring down the Israeli government, force early elections and delay his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Brushing aside mounting pressures for a nationwide referendum on his disengagement plan, a defiant Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ruled out any such possibility along with calls for new elections.