Carnival scenes as Knesset prepares for Gaza vote
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There was a carnival atmosphere outside the Israeli parliament today as thousands of the children of Jewish settlers turned out to protest against the planned closure of the settlements in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has submitted his Gaza withdrawal plan for a crucial parliamentary vote, while tanks and troops have killed 14 Palestinians in a raid in the coastal strip.
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Israel's Shin Bet security service has tightened protection of the prime minister, legislators and parliament ahead of next week's crucial Knesset vote on a Gaza withdrawal, security officials said Wednesday.
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Israel&#39;s Shin Bet service on Wednesday surrounded Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with an unprecedented number of bodyguards and bolstered protection for lawmakers ahead of a parliamentary vote next week on the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestinian leaders are condemning an Israeli raid on a Gaza refugee camp as a major distraction ahead of the Palestinian presidential vote.
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Voter registration has begun throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in preparation for possible general and local elections next year.
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Israel&#39;s parliament will today begin debating bitterly opposed legislation to remove Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip next year ahead of a vote that could force a major realignment of Israeli politics.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip voted in their first municipal elections under Israeli occupation on Thursday in a test of grassroots support for President Mahmoud Abbas and rival Islamist groups.
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JERUSALEM : Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon battled at the weekend to prepare for key votes in cabinet and parliament on his Gaza pullout plan, vehemently opposed by Jewish settlers, the extreme right and a hard core of his own Likud party.
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Palestinians have voted in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades in a dress rehearsal for next month&#39;s presidential ballot to choose former president Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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JERUSALEM - Israelâs parliament opens what is expected to be a stormy winter session with a warning from the speaker that passions over Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs planned Gaza pullout next year could boil over into fistfights, and the government
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JERUSALEM, Oct 21  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looked Thursday to maximise his majority in next week&#39;s crucial parliamentary vote on his Gaza pullout plan, buoyed by predictions that he was assured of victory.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a dramatic entrance into Israel's parliament Wednesday surrounded by a large phalanx of bodyguards, as security officials voiced concern for his safety before a parliamentary vote on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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Gazans danced in the streets, honked car horns and set off fireworks to celebrate a Hamas-Fatah power-sharing deal they hope will avert civil war.
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PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon made a dramatic entrance into Israel&#39;s parliament today surrounded by a large phalanx of bodyguards.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made a dramatic entrance into Israel's parliament yesterday surrounded by a large phalanx of bodyguards, as security officials voiced concern for his safety before a parliamentary vote on his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians hold municipal  elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a  dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser  Arafat's successor next month.