JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voiced confidence that his Gaza pullout plan would be adopted on his cabinet as the US warned opposites that it will reject any alternative.

JERUSALEM (AFP) ??” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voiced confidence that his Gaza pullout plan would be adopted on his cabinet as the US warned opposites that it will reject any alternative.

"The plan will be adopted forward Sunday," Sharon told reporters as he left a closed-door session of parliament's foreign affairs and excuse committee.

Sharon was earlier quot by dint of army radio as telling the committee that he was determined that his throw out would be adopted in replete and that opponents would not be allowed to cherry-pick clauses.

He was forced to defer a vote at this week's meeting after failing to persuade enough of his 23 ministers to get to onside.

Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sharon's chief rival, has been leading opposition to the scheme within government but Washington warned that its support for the plan would not be transferred to an alternative blueprint.

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