Sharon Invites Labour to Join Coalition
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked the dovish Labour Party to join his ruling coalition today, a move that greatly bolsters his chances for carrying out plans to withdraw from the Gaza Strip next year.
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Israel's opposition Labour party  began talks on Saturday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party on joining his coalition, a partnership aimed at  promoting a planned Gaza withdrawal.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he'll turn to his old rivals in the Labor Party to save his shattered coalition and get the support he needs to leave the Gaza Strip.
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The leaders of Israel's Labour Party back plans for a coalition with Ariel Sharon's Likud but it may not be formed for weeks.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meeting with members of his Likud Party last week. The partyâs Central Committee has authorized him to form a coalition cabinet with Labor.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  Likud party voted on Thursday in favor of his bid to bring the  opposition Labour party into government, officials said.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, yesterday invited Shimon Peres - an old friend but sometimes a political adversary - to join his government as the two grand old men of Israeli politics prepared to unite to see through a plan to move Jewish
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud  party and opposition Labor haggled over power-sharing on Sunday  in a coalition deal crucial for pushing through an Israeli  withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip.
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The opposition Labour Party in Israel has begun coalition talks with the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party. Labour leader Shimon Peres says negotiations to establish a coalition government could be completed within a few days.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will seek a governing coalition with Shimon Peres&#39;s Labour Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, has today made a last-minute appeal for his party to back his plan to bring the main opposition Labour party into a new coalition.
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TEL AVIV, Dec 21  - The formation of Israel&#39;s new coalition government inched closer Tuesday when Labour approved a deal bartered between the main opposition party and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  urged his Likud party on Thursday to vote for a governing  alliance with the Labour Party, warning that failure to do so  would force snap elections and derail his Gaza withdrawal plan.  Internal polls predict victory for Sharon in a crucial ballot  by the rightist Likud's Central Committee on whether to allow  him to open talks with center-left Labour on joining a unity  coalition to shore up his shattered government.
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Labor will enter a coalition government with the Likud to make sure Prime Minister Ariel Sharon can carry out his disengagement plan, Opposition leader Shimon Peres said Monday.
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Israel's opposition Labour party is  likely to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition next  week, a move that could promote a Gaza pullout plan and also  avoid early elections, his spokesman said on Friday.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his support Tuesday to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on his plan to invite the Labor Party into a unity government, Ha&#39;aretz reported, citing an aide of Sharon.