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Source: http://www.nypost.com/commentary/17179.htm
High-Stakes Gamble from a Master Strategist
(New York Post) Uri Dan - The "relocation" of Jewish settlements won't be limited to 17 in the Gaza Strip, but will extend to the West Bank and may total 30, possibly more. Sharon believes any Israeli prime minister who follows him may be pressured to pull back much further, to the pre-1967 borders. Sharon believes those borders are militarily indefensible. So he came to the conclusion, after three years of bloodshed and seven years of fruitless negotiation - the so-called "Mideast peace process" - to separate Israelis from Palestinians as much as possible by "relocating" some settlements and erecting a security fence along the West Bank. Sharon visualizes Israel holding on to about 50% of the West Bank - in some 100-plus settlements - as well as the strategic Jordan Valley.