Quds city, July 3 (SPA) -- Israel's cabinet rejected on Sunday a proposal to delay the start of a Gaza pullout for three months, Reuters reported. The cabinet voted 18-3 against Likud Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz's proposed 3-month delay. Benjamin Netanyahu, a former prime minister who now holds the finance portfolio, supported Katz, who said more time was needed to complete pullout preparations. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, with backing from his main coalition partner, Shimon Peres's Labour Party, had been widely expected to beat back Katz's proposal before a parliamentary vote on the issue on Wednesday that seems certain to go the Israeli leader's way. "Any delay is dangerous," a government official quoted Sharon as telling the cabinet.
