Benjamin Netanyahu accused Ariel Sharon of planning unilateral Israeli withdrawals in the West Bank. “There is a clear plan here for one big withdrawal,” Netanyahu, the front-runner for the leadership of Sharon’s former Likud Party, told reporters Wednesday. “A weakened Israel, which is on the retreat and makes no end of concessions to terror, will achieve neither peace nor security.” Sharon quit the Likud last month to form the centrist Kadima Party, saying he wanted to push for peace with the Palestinians. He has said repeatedly that the recent Gaza pullout won’t be followed by additional unilateral withdrawals, but many analysts believe Sharon will indeed go the unilateral route in the West Bank as well.
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