Israel's Sharon Confronts Party Rebels Before Vote
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon confronted  Likud party rebels with a pledge to put the good of Israel  first Wednesday as he battled to avoid an embarrassing defeat  over his Gaza pullout plan.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's Likud party is to  vote on whether to invite the opposition Labour Party into the coalition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing  alliance with the Labor Party, warning that failure to do so  would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Ariel Sharon pledged today to enter talks with opposition parties to rebuild his shattered governing coalition and avert early elections that would jeopardise his plans to withdraw from Gaza.
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Israel's leader wins a historic vote to withdraw settlers, but now faces a revolt in his own party.
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JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, described by aides as more angry than embarrassed over the Parliament&#39;s symbolic repudiation of his term-opening speech, moved Tuesday to renew discussions with opposition parties over reshaping his minority
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Gaza Strip withdrawal plan and his very political future were in question last night after his right-wing Likud party voted to prevent him from forming a national unity government with ...
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks to reporters after casting his ballot at the Likud party meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004.
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Playing on the Westâs insistence that Israel facilitate âPalestinianâ elections, and Israelâs desire to comply, the PA Tuesday threatened to call off
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon appealed to his Likud Party to support a crucial proposal Thursday that would let him broaden his coalition to ensure the survival of his
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has locked up enough support to win a scheduled parliamentary vote on his Gaza withdrawal plan, but is deeply concerned about growing fissures within the ruling Likud Party, aides said Thursday.
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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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Israeli opposition leader, Shimon Peres, is worried that Jewish extremists may try to kill the country&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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ARIEL SHARON, the Israeli Prime Minister, yesterday used the threat of early elections in an attempt to swing recalcitrant members of his Likud party behind his plan to evacuate all the Jewish settlements in Gaza.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is willing to lose Wednesday night&#39;s vote on the first reading of the 2005 budget bill in order to prove to his Likud colleagues that the formation of a national-unity government is required to prevent early elections, sources
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has alienated his right-wing Likud party with plans to withdraw from Gaza, begins a new legislative session yesterday fighting for his government&#39;s survival.
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Israel's parliament, the Knesset, is to hold a vote shortly to elect the country's new president.