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Article: Israel's West Bank pullout won't bring Palestinian state any time soon
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- March 29, 2006
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STEVEN GUTKIN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-29-2006
Dateline: JERUSALEM
Fresh off its election victory, the Kadima Party is already hard at work devising a plan to pull 70,000 of 250,000 Jewish settlers out of the West Bank.
But in the absence of negotiations with a Hamas-run Palestinian government, no one should expect a new country called "Palestine" any time soon.
Israel's plan, senior officials say, includes holding onto large swaths of West Bank territory housing tens of thousands of settlers, maintaining a military presence in most of the area and keeping the holy city of Jerusalem for itself.
In his victory speech Tuesday night, Kadima leader and acting Prime Minister Ehud ...