Olmert loses coalition partner
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Rightwing party quits ruling Israeli coalition over efforts to start peace talks with Palestinians
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Israel&#39;s pro-settler National Religious Party (NRP) decided to resign from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition government after Sharon refused to put his disengagement plan to a national referendum.
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BEIJING, Aug.19 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has failed to garner the support of the Likud Party Convention for his resolution to negotiate with the Labor Party over a coalition government, according to a CNN report.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel was on the verge of a new coalition government after a deal was reached to install opposition leader Shimon Peres as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s official number two.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reserved judgment on Sunday on a Palestinian unity government deal that failed to meet a core demand by the United States and other Middle East peace mediators to recognize Israel.
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Israeli political parties were yesterday bogged down in hard bargaining over the formation of a new coalition government to implement the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is unruffled by the setback to his âunilateral disengagementâ from the Palestinians as a result of his failure to cobble a new coalition government with the Labor Party.
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The Likud loyalist faction, which numbered close to twenty at its prime, has diminished to a mere nine Likud faction members voting against giving Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a mandate to bring the Labor Party into the government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon now finds himself in a difficult position following this week&#39;s rejection by his own Likud party of his plan to bring the opposition Labour Party into the coalition government. Following ...
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party and the opposition Labor agreed Friday to form a national unity government, while at least eight Palestinians were killed during an Israeli army incursion in southern Gaza.
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Coalition negotiating teams of the Likud and Labor Parties agreed today that Peres will become Israel&#39;s first-ever &quot;Associate Prime Minister&quot; and the senior minister in the government after the Prime Minister.
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Some 20 years ago, Ehud Olmert  now deputy prime minister of Israel, recently mayor of Jerusalem, back then a rising star in Israel&#39;s right-wing firmament  was among the principal speakers at a United Jewish Appeal event in ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Thursday that he disagreed with a U.S. advisory group's linkage of efforts to stabilize Iraq with new moves to end Israel's conflict with its neighbors.
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Severe cracks surfaced inside the Israeli government this week as its senior law officers publicly fell out with the defence establishment and the Foreign Ministry over the country&#39;s future strategy in the face of the July verdict of the International
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s rebellious Likud party has dealt a severe setback to his plan to withdraw from occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Israel&#39;s pro-settler National Religious Party (NRP) pulled out of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s governing coalition Tuesday in protest at his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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A hawkish faction in Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's coalition pulled out of the government on Wednesday, weakening him at a time when he needs broad support to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year