Israeli plans for further unilateral separation from the Palestinians are a “declaration of war,” a Hamas leader said regarding Israeli interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s plans to unilaterally withdraw from much of the West Bank by 2010, while maintaining large settlement blocs. “Unilateral Israeli disengagement from the Palestinian territories is a declaration of war against the Palestinian people,” Khaled Mashaal said Friday.
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