Ya&#39;alon: IDF is in advanced stages of preparation for Gaza pullout
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The army is in a very advanced stage of preparations for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements in 2005, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lieutenant
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Israel is likely to pull back its  troops from several West Bank cities within days, Defense  Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday, in a further sign of  cooperation with a new Palestinian leadership.
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Exactly four years ago, a few days before Yom Kippur, then deputy chief of general staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Ya&#39;alon appeared before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
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A team of American diplomats is due in Israel early next month for talks with Israeli officials on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
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Israel begins redeploying forces in northern Gaza, in what it says is a gesture to Palestinians.
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For a start, his absence, temporary or permanent, has the potential of throwing a monkey wrench in the Israeli leader&#39;s much-trumpeted plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and evacuate Israeli settlements in this overpopulated Palestinian
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday that Israel is prepared to make "painful compromises for peace," and has begun coordination with Palestinians on Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel is prepared to turn over security responsibilities in the northern Gaza Strip to Palestinian forces well ahead of a planned withdrawal from the area in mid-2005, Israeli security officials said today.
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The events of the past few days in the Gaza Strip underscore a trend that began some time ago. The fifth year of the conflict, which begins this week, is, at least in the meantime, the year of disengagement.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon presented the most detailed timetable yet for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to his Likud Party on Tuesday, and warned party rebels that the plan "will be implemented, period."   A Sharon ally in the Cabinet said the evacuation of Jewish settlements in Gaza could begin by the end of the year, or several months ahead of schedule.    The initial plan called for a withdrawal from Gaza and four small West Bank settlements in four stages, to be completed by September 2005...
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He said Israel was ready to co-ordinate its pull-out from Gaza with a new Palestinian leadership, following the death of Yasser Arafat in November.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday presented a detailed timetable for his planned pullout of troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip to his Likud party.
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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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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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JERUSALEM, Sept 22  - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that Israel&#39;s withdrawal of troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip would start in the summer of 2005 and last 12 weeks, in an interview with public television.
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Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army massed an armored force in apparent preparation for a major military operation
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The move suggests the sides were seeking to pull back from a potential showdown in the Gaza Strip, at least for now.