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...This hurts me personally more than anyone else in the state of Israel." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, revealing a controversial proposal that aims to evacuate Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip over the next two years...
...very close to reaching an understanding on all issues. Both sides had accepted in principle the guidelines on final status that President Clinton had presented to them a month earlier. But there was no deal, and the parties agreed to resume negotiations after the Israeli elections of 2001 and Ariel Sharon’s victory...
...believe the freed Palestinians will commit terror attacks again. People close to Batya Arad, the missing airman's mother, say that before she died in June 2002 she told her family she didn't believe Palestinian terrorists should be exchanged for her son's body. Ministers in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet criticized him for dealing with Hizballah's Nasrallah, saying it would invite Palestinians to kidnap Israelis in the West Bank to bargain for another prisoner release. Those criticisms intensified after Hamas announced it would begin a kidnapping program and another suicide bomber struck on a Jerusalem...
Most Israelis, including Naamati, say the fence is an important defense against suicide bombers. But many argue it should have been built along the old demarcation line between the West Bank and Israel. Instead, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon snaked the fence into the West Bank to incorporate Israeli settlements and to take advantage of more easily defensible topography. The fence is already 165 km long; work is under way on a new section around Jerusalem and south to Hebron, and there are plans for an eastern fence probably along the heights above the Jordan Valley. Palestinians charge that the route...
...past three years. But the exact placement of the new fence is causing concern. Instead of following the Green Line--the demarcation that existed before Israel conquered the West Bank in 1967 and the line Palestinian leaders imagine as a border for their future state--Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pushed the fence inside the West Bank to include many Israeli settlements. According to the U.N., the fence, about a quarter of which is built, already puts 16% of the West Bank and 13,000 Palestinians on the Israeli side. President Bush last month warned Israel not to "prejudice" peace...