No, not an inch
Mr Sharon's party has rejected his plan to pull out of Gaza. What next?
ARIEL SHARON, Israel's prime minister, was all smiles after casting his ballot on May 2nd. But within 20 minutes his aides, who had predicted a close race, were conceding defeat. Mr Sharon had asked the members of his right-wing party, Likud, whether they approved of his plan to remove Jewish settlements from Gaza, the lesser part of a would-be Palestinian state. Some 60% of those who voted, in a turnout of only 41%, rejected it.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “No, not an inch”
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