Sharon set to end 15-month boycott of Palestinian leadership
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was set to end his 15-month boycott of the Palestinian leadership after expressing a willingness to meet new PLO chief and presidential favourite Mahmud Abbas.
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Israeli leader Ariel Sharon vowed on  Sunday to widen an offensive into Gaza which has killed 55  Palestinians until militants stop firing rockets that have  fueled criticism of his plan to quit the occupied strip.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli parliament is set for an historic vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s hotly contested plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip after 37 years of occupation.
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In a startling reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cut all contact Friday with the newly elected Palestinian leader and said Mahmoud Abbas must halt militant attacks if he wants peace talks. The timing of the decision &#151; on the eve of Abbas' inauguration &#151; was a major snub.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s chief of staff has said the aim of Israel&#39;s Gaza withdrawal plan is to rule out a Palestinian state indefinitely.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his fractious parliament on Monday that he will bring his Gaza pullout plan to the house for debate on Oct. 25 and will ask approval for compensation for evacuated settlers two weeks later.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed in an interview published Tuesday to expel Yasser Arafat from the West Bank "at a convenient time," saying he saw no difference between the Palestinian leader and top Hamas militants killed by Israel.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, will today seek approval by the Israeli parliament for parts of his plan to withdraw from Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that he will seek final Cabinet approval for a Gaza withdrawal in February, four months earlier than planned, and he threatened harsh retaliation if Palestinian militants try to disrupt the pullback.
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Israel and the Palestinians ended a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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JERUSALEM  - The political mouthpiece of the settler movement was poised to resign from Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition government Tuesday after the Israeli prime minister refused to bow to demands to put his Gaza pullout plan to a national referendum.
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JERUSALEM - The real objective of Ariel Sharon's offer to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank is to freeze Palestinian statehood indefinitely, with U.S. blessing, the prime minister's point man with the Bush administration said in an interview published Wednesday...
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Israel's divided parliament is widely  expected to ratify Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza  withdrawal plan on Tuesday, a pivotal step toward the first  evacuation of settlers from lands Palestinians want for a  state.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has indicated he is dropping a demand that Palestinians crack down on militant groups before he will resume peace talks.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the go-ahead on Thursday for troops to withdraw from parts of northern Gaza, media reports said, shortly after they killed the 100th Palestinian in the largest Gaza offensive in four years.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seeks parliament&#39;s support on Monday for his plan to quit occupied Gaza and for the first time uproot settlements from land that Palestinians want for a state.