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Sunday, April 09, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Olmert seeks to boost settlement blocs
Ehud Olmert said Israelis to be evacuated from isolated West Bank settlements would be moved to the major settlement blocs in the territory.
Asked in a Newsweek interview, the first he has given to a foreign publication since being elected prime minister last month, what his “convergence plan” would entail, Olmert said: “The idea is that most of the settlements that would have to be removed” will be “converged into the blocs of settlements that will remain under Israeli control.
“The blocs of settlements which include Ma’aleh Adumim, the Etzion bloc and Ariel will be augmented by more settlements,” Olmert added.
“The rest of the territories will not have any Israeli presence and will allow territorial contiguity for a future Palestinian state.”
The prime minister-elect said that he would set Israel’s border more or less along the route of the West Bank security fence, and seek U.S. endorsement for the move.
Pollard blasts former handler
Jonathan Pollard decried the election of his former Israeli intelligence handler to the Knesset.
The former U.S. Navy analyst, who is serving a life sentence in prison for passing Israel classified documents in the 1980s, was on Sunday quoted by Ma’ariv as saying that the success of retired spymaster Rafi Eitan in the recent general elections was a “provocation” to the United States.
“In my worst nightmares I never imagined that my people would be so indifferent to the precept of liberating prisoners as to bring to power my former commander — the man who betrayed me and abandoned me for 21 years,” Pollard said.
Eitan, who now leads the Pensioners Party, recruited Pollard while heading the Israeli scientific espionage unit Lakam.
He has vowed to lobby for Pollard to receive clemency.
Pollard alleged that Eitan has the sole surviving copy of a document that could be used as a “bargaining chip” for his release from prison, but did not elaborate.
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