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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (567639)	4/22/2004 3:36:49 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Read carefully.......in spite of getting an unbelievable reversal of decades of American foreign policy, the Likud Party is still not happy. Likud=pigs. And you wonder why the Palestinians resort to violence. ******************************************************* Sharon: Back Gaza Pullout or Lose U.S. Assurances Thu Apr 22, 2004 02:22 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Matt Spetalnick JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scrambling to halt erosion of support for his Gaza pullout plan, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged lawmakers Thursday to back him or risk losing unprecedented U.S. assurances to the Jewish state. Sharon said a new package of U.S. commitments that could widen Israel's borders and prevent the return of Palestinian refugees was an "inseparable part" of his proposal to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. "Whoever is opposed to the plan gives up all these achievements we'd made...(and) will carry the responsibility of canceling all the U.S. commitments," said Sharon. "This is a comprehensive agreement." Even as Sharon spoke, violence flared in Palestinian areas, where tensions have risen since Israel killed Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a Gaza airstrike Saturday. Israeli troops shot dead three wanted militants in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, the army said. Medics said a nine-year-old Palestinian girl and a teen-ager were killed by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza, on the third day of clashes since troops moved in to stop Hamas from firing makeshift rockets. The Israeli force later pulled back. The army said Palestinian gunmen, operating near crowds of youngsters, had hurled grenades and fired automatic weapons and an anti-tank missile at the soldiers, who shot back at them. "We did not fire at (residential) buildings or children," a spokesman said. Medics said the girl was hit by a bullet that penetrated her home. POLL SURPRISES SHARON SUPPORTERS Sharon came out fighting during a parliamentary session after a poll found support for his "disengagement" proposal in his right-wing Likud party had slipped to 44 percent ahead of a crucial May 2 party referendum. Forty percent opposed the plan. The poll in the Haaretz daily came as an embarrassing surprise to Sharon's camp, which had thought victory in the Likud vote was a foregone conclusion after he won support from President Bush and party heavyweights. <snip> Despite what Sharon hailed as a historic victory in Washington, many of Likud's 200,000 members remain staunchly opposed to ceding any occupied land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories the Palestinians want for a state. Most polls show Sharon winning the Likud vote but his advantage has narrowed considerably as Gaza's 7,800 settlers and their supporters mount a fierce fight against the pullout plan. reuters.com