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Court cuts short Sharon's term

JERUSALEM, JULY 7. Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday shortened the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's term by a year, in a ruling that could further weaken his minority Government and complicate a planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The court said elections must be held by November 2006 and that the original November 2007 date was based on a mistaken interpretation of the electoral law.

Israel's Police Minister, meanwhile, delivered the starkest warning yet about political violence over the Gaza pullback, saying he believes Jewish extremists are plotting to assassinate leading politicians to stop the dismantling of settlements. ``They (extremists) will assassinate the Prime Minister, a minister, an army official or a police official,'' Tsahi Hanegbi, the Police Minister, told Israel TV's Channel Two.

``They don't always succeed and they don't always have the means to carry out the acts.

"But we are not lacking extremists.'' — AP

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