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Ariel Sharon To Meet Bush in Texas

HeadlineApr 11, 2005

Today Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is meeting with President Bush in Texas. Sharon is expected to seek Bush’s approval for building 3,500 new settlement homes in the West Bank. Meanwhile opposition to Sharon’s plans to evacuate all Jewish settlements in Gaza continues. On Sunday, Sharon deployed thousands of troops to block a right-wing Jewish group from entering the Temple Mount, a hilltop site in Jerusalem sacred to Jews and Muslims. 31 people were arrested. Meanwhile a former head of the Israeli spy agency Mossad warned over the weekend that Israel is now in danger of a military coup headed by right-wing opponents of the Gaza pull-out.

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