Israel Military, Religious Leaders at Odds over Gaza Withdrawal
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Israel&#39;s top military leader blasted some Jewish religious leaders for urging followers to refuse to follow military orders to evacuate settlements, as part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plans.
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Israel&#39;s justice minister has warned that far-right rabbis who urge religious soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements in Gaza could face prosecution, saying such calls risk sparking civil war.
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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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Israel and the Palestinians will issue separate but mutually dependent vows Tuesday to halt military operations against each other, Palestinian and Israeli officials say.
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Having all but lost the political battle, Jewish settlers said Tuesday they are still confident they can block an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip with faith and defiance.
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Israel's parliament is set for a second day of debate ahead of a vote on whether to pull Jewish settlers out of Gaza.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's army chief of staff yesterday condemned a call from scores of rabbis on observant soldiers to refuse to obey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements under next year's planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was seeking to nail down support for his Gaza pullout plan on Wednesday ahead of a crunch vote in parliament as one of his top ministers held talks with the spiritual leader of the main ultra-Orthodox party.
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Analysis: Air strikes have taken out some Hamas leaders and crews firing rockets at Israel. But many Palestinians perceive the Israeli actions as support for Fatah
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A group of prominent Israeli hard-liners urged soldiers Thursday to disobey orders to dismantle Jewish settlements, widening the bitter divisions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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The leaders of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank urged their followers Monday to resist a government plan to withdraw from parts of the occupied territories
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JERUSALEM - Facing unrelenting criticism from Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.    Also Monday, scattered fighting in the Gaza Strip killed at least five Palestinian militants, including two Palestinians who infiltrated Israel from Gaza early Monday and were shot in a lengthy gunbattle...
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Israel&#39;s parliament is debating Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, a plan that has split the ruling party and divided the country.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israelâs battle against the militant group that controls Gaza a âtrue war.â
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Ideally, Israel would be withdrawing from the Gaza Strip as part of a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. Ideally, there would be no suspicion that the withdrawal is part
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Jewish and Protestant leaders clashed over Israel as the heads of several major U.S. Jewish organizations condemned the Presbyterian Church's decision to begin selective divestiture in companies operating in Israel.
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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.