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To: paret who wrote (17418)	1/22/2004 4:08:58 PM
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Defiant Sharon won't quit Thu 22 January, 2004 17:42 By Yehuda Gruber TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A defiant Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told cheering right-wing supporters he has no intention of resigning as Israeli prosecutors consider indicting him over allegations a businessman friend bribed him. But an opinion poll suggested that if charges were brought, the former general who made a remarkable political comeback from controversy over bloodshed in Lebanon two decades ago may have little choice but to bow to public pressure and step down. Beaming with confidence, Sharon, head of the rightist Likud party, vowed to remain prime minister of the Jewish state at least until the next general election is due to be held in 2007. Nicknamed the "bulldozer" for his settlement-planting policies on occupied land in the West Bank and leadership ambitions, he is no stranger to crushing political setbacks. Forced to resign as defence minister in 1983 after the massacre by Israel's Lebanese Christian allies of Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps surrounded by Israeli forces, he climbed back to the top and was elected prime minister in 2001. The charge sheet against Appel said he had paid more than $2.6 million (1.41 million pounds) in an attempt to bribe Sharon and Olmert, then Jerusalem mayor, to help him push through real estate deals. reuters.co.uk