Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he will complete his plan to disengage from Gaza next year, despite losing a key coalition partner. “The disengagement plan will be implemented. Period,” he said. Mr Sharon fired ministers from the Shinui party, which voted against the government in the defeat of the annual budget in parliament on Wednesday. As his Likud party has only 40 of the 120 Knesset seats, he must seek support from Labour or religious parties. “There is no choice: either the Labour party and the religious parties join the government or we must have elections,” he told a news conference in Tel Aviv. Full Story
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