Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present a finalized withdrawal plan to President Bush on April 14. A senior Israeli official traveling with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who is in Washington to meet with top U.S. officials, said the dimensions of the withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank would depend on the “political payoff ” Israel gets from the Americans.
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