The Israeli government has already decided on a unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank.
Yediot, Israel Radio and other major news organs championed the cause of an Israeli pullout from Lebanon for a decade.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- The United Nations pullout from Gorazde met up with trouble before leaving the U.N. designated safe area.
After the US pullout from Iraq in December 2011, relations between Ankara and Baghdad have sharply deteriorated, with Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi prime minister, pronouncing Turkey a "hostile state".
He used his 20-minute speech to try to clear the air with Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who's taken a lot of heat from Republicans for proposing a pullout from Iraq.
He said that while "the tragic events of last week need to be reported... lots of the talk subsequently about a wholesale pullout from Afghanistan does not support the soldiers who are out there risking their lives".
Palestinian and Arab officials have pointed to one idea in particular: An attempt to revive, with modifications, the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative that offered a comprehensive peace with Israel for a pullout from territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
He recently broke with the conservative Likud party he helped found -- which did not support his pullout from Gaza and parts of the West Bank -- and is running for re-election as head of the moderate, newly formed Kadima Party.
Their refusal to give Obama any credit for the fall of Gadhafi (some gave more credit to Great Britain and France) and harsh criticisms of his Iraqi timetable (the final pullout from Iraq was set by George W. Bush, not Obama) plays well with the Republican base, but looks small to other voters.
Last week, Sharon left the Likud Party -- which he helped found in the 1970s -- and announced the creation of a new party, called Kadima -- officially separating himself from those in Likud who protested his pullout of Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza.
He said Iraq's politicians have the most to lose from the pullout.
Despite minor incidents and violations by both sides, says Mr Annan, the crucial part, a simultaneous pullout of Israeli forces from southern Lebanon and the deployment of both the Lebanese army and international peacekeepers, has proceeded apace.
The right-wing Likud, having tried to swallow what was originally a leftist idea (though Mr Sharon, unlike the left, may have intended the Gaza pullout to be Israel's final withdrawal from occupied territory) was near fission.
The government didn't have a majority in Parliament even before the DMK pullout and it has been surviving on support from parties which aren't part of the coalition but have been voting in its favor on key issues.
Think about it--from the cute Honda CRX with the pullout tailgate table to the climb-anything-anywhere Jeep Liberty to the blot-out-the-sun Chevy Avalanche.
Politicians in Paris are still speaking as though Mali can be won on the cheap and quick with a drawdown in March from the 4, 000 French troops here now, and a pullout after hypothetical elections in July.
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