New Yorker: PM Sharon Sought Deal with US on 4 Alternative WB Retreats
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“In an article appearing in today’s New Yorker magazine, Haaretz’s Ari Shavit writes that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the National Security Council to study four alternatives: evacuating isolated settlements in the West Bank; evacuating an entire settlement region, perhaps one near Nablus; withdrawing from 88 percent of the West Bank; and withdrawing from 92 percent of the West Bank. Shavit cites Sharon associates who said that his operative plan was to negotiate with the Palestinians over an interim agreement, under which Israel would evacuate some 20 isolated settlements.“