JERUSALEM: ISRAELI CABINET MEET TO DISCUSS PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S PLAN TO WITHDRAW FROM THE GAZA STRIP.

Record ID: 400451

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI CABINET MEET TO DISCUSS PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON'S PLAN TO WITHDRAW FROM THE GAZA STRIP.
  • Date: 9th May 2004
  • Summary: (W3) JERUSALEM (MAY 9, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. TRACK: ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER SHAUL MOFAZ ARRIVING AT CABINET. 0.09 2. MV: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, YEHUD OLMERT BEING INTERVIEWED. 0.11 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, YEHUD OLMERT, SAYING "Well, I think it is absolutely evident that the Israeli government has to move forward i
  • Embargoed: 24th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA4ERMRSEEF9KZKRWLHL4RJBMQW
  • Story Text: Israeli cabinet to revive failed pullout plan.



    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was expected to
    discuss his new disengagement plan during his weekly
    cabinet meeting after his unilateral plan to withdraw from
    the Gaza Strip was voted down by his Likud party last week.

    "I think it is absolutely evident that the Israeli
    government has to move forward in order to change the
    present status quo which is not advantageous to our
    interests. There is such a plan, and it is true that the
    Likud party is not being very friendly to this but I don't
    know if there is any alternative, so I think we will have
    to move forward and find a way to pass this plan in the
    cabinet," Deputy Prime Minister Yehud Olmert said ahead of
    the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday (May 9).

    Sixty percent voted "no" in the referendum. The result
    embarrassed Sharon and dismayed Washington, which had
    endorsed his unilateral moves in the hope they might help
    revive stalled peace talks but angered Arabs by assuring
    Israel it could keep parts of the West Bank in the bargain.

    Palestinians fear the Gaza pullout plan is a ruse to
    annex large tracts of West Bank land they want for their
    state. Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967
    Middle East war.



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