Sharon Sets Peace 'Test' for Palestinians
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, setting a test for a new Palestinian leadership, said it could show its desire for peace by ending incitement against Israel even before any crackdown on militants.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, saying the new Palestinian leadership is "not lifting a finger" to stop militants' attacks against Israelis, ordered the Israeli military on Sunday to take "any action" necessary to halt terrorism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved a start to diplomatic talks with the Palestinians in response to a lull in militant attacks secured by their new leader Mahmoud Abbas, officials said on Wednesday. The decision came hours before senior U.S. diplomat William Burns was to arrive on a fresh White House mission to revive a "road map" peace plan envisaging a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip co-existing with a secure Israel.
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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday Israel should not miss the chance to reach a &quot;breakthrough&quot; in its relations with the Palestinians in 2005.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected reported peace overtures by Syria on Wednesday, saying it had to crack down on Islamic militant groups under its control before negotiations that stalled in 2000 could resume.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said in an interview that he is ready to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and try to coordinate a Gaza pullout with a new Palestinian government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said on Monday that any peace talks with Palestinian leaders  depended on whether they could rein in militants, who killed  five Israeli soldiers in Gaza in an attack on Sunday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  rejected reported peace overtures by Syria on Wednesday, saying  it had to crack down on Islamic militant groups under its  control before negotiations that stalled in 2000 could resume.
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Israel has approved measures it says are aimed at ensuring that next month&#39;s Palestinian election goes smoothly. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the whole world had to see that Israel would allow a free and fair poll.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon branded  settler calls for military disobedience a threat to the Jewish  state's existence on Wednesday and said he would explore  tougher measures against those who made them.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Palestinian Authority  on Friday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new  and seemingly softer terms for restarting peace talks, saying  he should drop all conditions for dialogue.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has promised that Israel will work to ensure the Palestinian presidential election is both free and fair.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised Sunday that Israel would work to ensure that next monthâs Palestinian presidential election takes place in a free and fair atmosphere.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  on Wednesday renewed his threat to remove Yasser Arafat, saying  the Palestinian president would "get what he deserves."
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will try  to end four years of bloodshed and take a step back toward  negotiations at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.
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Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he would end his boycott of the Palestinian leadership and begin a new era of working with Yasser Arafat&#39;s successors.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas faces  a crucial test of his new leadership on Tuesday when he visits  Gaza to try to persuade militants defying his calls for calm to  agree to cease attacks on Israel.