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Disengagement Opponents Now Threaten To Vote Against Budget In Order To Torpedo Withdrawal Cabinet Approves Compensation Bill For Settlers

Opposition Leader Shimon Peres To Plead Sharon’s Case For Withdrawal To Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Before Crucial Knesset Vote Analyst David Essing: ‘Prime Minister Sharon Will Need Decisive Victory Next Tuesday To Stem Mounting CampaignAgainst His Withdrawal Plan’ ‘Shas Party Holds the Key’

Gen.(res.) Eiland: ‘Israeli Residents Will Be Out Of Gaza Strip, One Way Or The Other, By End Of Next September’ Knesset Speaker Rivlin: ‘I’m Dumbfounded By Sharon’s Withdrawal…It Will Breach Israel’s Iron Wall Of Security’

PM Sharon: ‘No Referendum On Withdrawal; Stop Inciting IDF Soldiers To Disobey Orders!’ Settler Leaders: ‘Sharon Won’t Listen, We’ll Try And Persuade Likud MKs To Vote Against Evacuation!’

Senior Sources: ‘Prime Minister Sharon Has Passed The Point Of No Return On Implementing Gaza Evacuation’ Analyst David Essing: ‘Sharon Is Using Likud Rebels As Just Cause For Building Disengagement Coalition’

PM Sharon Moves To Build A Disengagement Coalition Analyst David Essing: ‘Sharon Now At Mercy Of Two Conflicting Coalitions’

PM Sharon: ‘I’ll Present Disengagement Plan To the Knesset on October 25th’. Evacuation Will Be Linked To Situation On the Ground’ Labor’s Peres: ‘We’ll Support Sharon Only If He Sincere On Disengagement As Part Of Roadmap Process’ Analyst David Essing: ‘Likud Rebels Warn Privately They’ll Try To Topple Sharon If He Carries Out Withdrawal’

IDF Chief OF Staff Ya’alon: ‘Current Operation To Continue Until No Qassam Rockets Fall On Sderot; But There Is No Quick Fix’ Defense Minister Mofaz: ‘IDF Reinforcements To Gaza To Help Distance Qassam Rockets From Israeli Border’ Finance Minister Netanyahu: ‘Sharon Will Halt Disengagement If There’s A Catastrophe Over Palestinian Terrorism Or A Jewish Civil War’