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Parliament approves key Gaza pull-out
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Parliament approves key Gaza pull-out
Israel?s Parliament on Wednesday approved compensation for settlers to be evacuated from Gaza, clearing a big hurdle for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s plan to cede the occupied territory to Palestinians. Middle East mediators see the Gaza pullout as a springboard toward peace negotiations whose prospects have brightened since a Feb. 8 ceasefire summit between Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas.
Sharon?s cabinet is expected to vote on Sunday to authorize a start to evacuations, but he must get the budget passed by March 31 or his government will fall automatically. Some 8,500 Gaza settlers and a few hundred of over 230,000 in the West Bank are to be uprooted from July to September. Many of the Gaza settlers vow to resist and ultra-rightists have made threats on Sharon?s life and vilified him as a new ?Hitler.?
<B> Mark HEINRICH</B>
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