Peres: West Bank pullout off agenda due to events in Gaza, Lebanon - Haaretz

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Peres: West Bank pullout off agenda due to events in Gaza, Lebanon

By Haaretz Service and the Associated Press

Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Sunday that the plan for a unilateral pullout in the West Bank has "disappeared" due to the fighting in Gaza and Lebanon.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was elected in January on his "realignment" plan to pull out of large areas of the West Bank and beef up others in drawing Israel's final borders.

But the public no longer supports transferring land to the Palestinians after militants in the Gaza Strip tunneled into southern Israel and attacked an Israel Defense Forces post - killing two soldiers and kidnapping Gilad Shalit -
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despite Israel's withdrawal from the coastal area, Peres said.

Israelis are also reluctant to agree to a West Bank withdrawal since Hezbollah killed three IDF soldiers and captured two others in another cross-border raid that led Israel to wage a 34-day war against the militia, Peres said.

"I think a one-sided realignment plan has disappeared because of what happened in Gaza and what happened in Lebanon," Peres told Israel Radio.

"We evacuated Gaza and Lebanon and they continued to fire from there like fools."

But Peres said Israel must consider other ways to proceed in talks with the Palestinians, which have not taken place for months.

"We have to find a way to move forward," he said.

Olmert said Saturday that he intended to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

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1.	PERES,DON`T CALL THEM FOOLS,YOU ARE ONE!LIBERATE GAZA,LEBANON,W.B	09:23	\|	-VOICE of MOSHIACH))	10/09/06

2.	Isreal must understand that the Arabs are not like the NA Indians	09:42	\|	Saleem	10/09/06

3.	Oslo Peace disappeared. Nobel Prize didn`t	09:50	\|	Asimon Nofelli	10/09/06

4.	we told u soo, we told u thhis was gone happen	09:55	\|	Nathan Orange	10/09/06

5.	They acted like fools, yes, and more...	10:03	\|	Robert	10/09/06

6.	pullout agenda	10:12	\|	Rolens Pinskhey	10/09/06

7.	FOOLS??	10:20	\|	ron	10/09/06

8.	different way	10:24	\|	losman	10/09/06

9.	Peres?	10:34	\|	john	10/09/06

10.	#5 Robert	10:45	\|	john	10/09/06

11.	Ah-ha	11:04	\|	D.R. Zukerman	10/09/06

12.	FOOLS? THE ENEMY!!!	11:05	\|	DAVE	10/09/06

13.	Peace gestures to the Palestinians?	11:07	\|	Clickfool	10/09/06

14.	Saleem # 2	11:39	\|	ChanahS	10/09/06

15.	To Clickfool and alike.	11:47	\|	Vital	10/09/06

16.	Peace gestures to the Palestinians?	11:48	\|	Roger Newman	10/09/06

17.	John , John	11:50	\|	Jerry	10/09/06

18.	Transferring land to the Palestinians?	11:50	\|	Lebanese admirer	10/09/06

19.	Vital: I agree, but...	12:05	\|	Star of David	10/09/06

20.	#1/The disembodied voice	12:12	\|	manny.b	10/09/06

21.	Pull back is a must	12:41	\|	Hany Hanoi	10/09/06

22.	Israel out of all occupied territories	12:47	\|	Alfonso	10/09/06

23.	Well, Jerry	12:50	\|	john	10/09/06

24.	For Vital	12:52	\|	Clickfool	10/09/06

25.	Lesson of the Israeli Aggression	12:53	\|	Stevenson	10/09/06

26.	For Roger Newman, whoops, here comes another whizzbang!	12:55	\|	Clickfool	10/09/06

27.	Can some one tell me why?	12:56	\|	Rosenbowl	10/09/06

28.	West Bank Pullout	14:15	\|	Dan	10/09/06

29.	losman #8	14:22	\|	Dan	10/09/06

30.	Peace gestures to the Palestinians?	14:51	\|	Roger	10/09/06

31.	Senility?	15:30	\|	orval	10/09/06

32.	#20manny.b:LIBERATE LANDS PROMISED TO ISRAEL.LIBERATE ARABS FROM	15:34	\|	-VOICE of MOSHIACH))	10/09/06

33.	ridiculous/uneducated responses	15:49	\|	Jules	10/09/06

34.	For Jules in Beer SHeva, with a short memory	16:30	\|	Clickfool	10/09/06

35.	#31 - So there is a brain	17:23	\|	manny.b	10/09/06