Israeli Minister Retracts Threat to Quit
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Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition in protest over the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's own party handed him a stinging rebuke, banning him from adding the moderate Labor Party to his government to bolster a Gaza pullout plan &#151; a move that endangered the proposed withdrawal.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud party, but a minority religious party quit Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition, protesting the plan to remove Israeli settlers and troops from the Gaza Strip and a portion of the West Bank.
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Israel's top legal official tells the government to halt confiscating Palestinian property in East Jerusalem.
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HERZLIYA, Israel -- Israel's defense minister said yesterday that Israeli troops will withdraw from Palestinian areas for 72 hours during the Palestinian presidential election next month, signaling that a deadly attack on an Israeli Army outpost has not stopped fledgling peace efforts.
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Israel&#39;s army chief of staff on Tuesday condemned a call from scores of rabbis on observant soldiers to refuse to obey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements under next year&#39;s planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip.
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A right-wing party quit Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government on Wednesday, condemning his peace talks with the Palestinians and leaving him even more politically vulnerable.
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The Israeli National Religious Party (NRP) decided Monday to postpone its quitting from the government until the parliament ratifies a Gaza withdrawal, givingPrime Minister
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THE Israeli Justice Minister warned right-wing rabbis yesterday that they risked sparking civil war with their incendiary remarks against the looming withdrawal from Gaza and could face prosecution.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signaled Thursday that he has no intention of stepping down after an inquiry held his government and the military responsible for the failures of Israel's war against Hezbollah.
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The Israeli government does not intend to honour the US-backed road map to peace in the Middle East once it has completed a planned pullout from Gaza, an Israeli newspaper reported today.
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JERUSALEM Dec 30, 2004 - Israel should withdraw from more of the West Bank after a small-scale pullback set for 2005, Israel&#39;s vice premier said in an interview published Thursday one of the first indications of Israel&#39;s long-term intentions.
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In a policy reversal, Israel said Monday it might co-ordinate next year&#39;s Gaza pullout with the Palestinian Authority if it cracks down on militants, the first indication it is reassessing relations with the Palestinians after Yasser
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Israel&#39;s top military officials spoke out Tuesday against calls for disobedience after rabbis urged religiously devout soldiers to refuse to take part in the removal of Jewish
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was given a double warning over its policies in the West Bank as its top legal officer said it faced a real threat of sanctions over its controversial separation barrier and the United States condemned the latest ...
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The Israeli prime minister said today that he wanted to begin withdrawing settlers from Gaza next May or June.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie has renewed a threat to resign in a tussle for power with Yasser Arafat just six weeks after retracting his previous resignation, officials said on Wednesday.