Most Palestinians welcome Ariel Sharon’s plan for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza Strip but don’t believe he will carry it out. According to a new opinion poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 75 percent of Palestinians want the Israeli prime minister to go ahead with his pledge to evacuate most Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and a few in the West Bank, but only 33 percent think Sharon actually will do it.
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