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Sharon then announced he would unilaterally evacuate all the settlements in the [[Gaza Strip]], which he carried out in August 2005.  It was an action that split his own Likud party and led to Sharon leading elements of the Likud to form the new centrist [[Kadima]] party with members of the Labour and other parties.  Still hugely popular, Sharon was in the early planning stages for a similar finalization of the status of the [[West Bank]] settlements when he suffered the stroke that left him in a coma. He was often said to be the one figure who could form a consensus in the fractured Israeli polity.<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weyrich/060106</ref>

Sharon then announced he would unilaterally evacuate all the settlements in the [[Gaza Strip]], which he carried out in August 2005.  It was an action that split his own Likud party and led to Sharon leading elements of the Likud to form the new centrist [[Kadima]] party with members of the Labour and other parties.  Still hugely popular, Sharon was in the early planning stages for a similar finalization of the status of the [[West Bank]] settlements when he suffered the stroke that left him in a coma. He was often said to be the one figure who could form a consensus in the fractured Israeli polity.<ref>http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/weyrich/060106</ref>

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