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March 31, 2005

Sharon's payoff

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wasted no time after he cleared all the procedural obstacles to his disengagement from Gaza and northern West Bank plan: within hours of the 2005 budget passing (three months late, barely 36 hours before its final deadline), Sharon rewarded key loyalists who backed him against the referendum and for the budget, handing out three ministries and five deputy ministerships.

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