Yasser Arafat reportedly wrote a letter to President Clinton questioning Israeli intentions to carry out any further West Bank redeployments. The Palestinian leader wrote that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will find a pretext not to carry out a 13 percent redeployment and will also avoid another pullback that was to have been accomplished by the end of August. Arafat rejected a redeployment offered by Israel last year, saying not enough land was involved.
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