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Sharon, Israel's New Prime Minister, Puts Security First.

By VOA News, BBC News & Arutz-7 News

Ariel Sharon has become Israel's new prime minister after the country's parliament approved his broad-based coalition government. Lawmakers voted 72 to 21 in favor of the eight-party government led by Sharon's right-wing Likud party.

In a policy speech before Wednesday's vote, Sharon called on Israelis to unite and urged Palestinians to renounce violence. Sharon also said he would like to make peace with Syria and Lebanon. Syria responded immediately that Israel must withdraw fully from the captured Golan Heights.

Sharon overwhelmingly defeated his Labor predecessor Ehud Barak last month in a special general election seen as a ...

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