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ISRAEL Saying his opponents had made life "unbearable," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon quit the conservative Likud Party he helped found to form a new centrist party, unofficially called "National Responsibility." The dramatic Nov. 21 exit came because harder-line party colleagues criticized his Gaza Strip withdrawal this year, and Mr. Sharon feared they would block further peace attempts. His likeliest successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, had harsh words: "Many of the voters who ostensibly are following Sharon don't believe in running amok and handing over land with your eyes closed. . . . That is not how you make peace." He also said Mr. Sharon was "setting up a party of puppets." With Mr. Sharon's exit, parliament voted to dissolve itself and call general elections for March next year, eight months ahead of schedule. Likud could now face an uneasy future without Mr. Sharon.

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