Olmert Announces Policy Shift: Withdrawal Plan is Off

In his first briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee since the war in Lebanon, the prime minister spoke to committee members on Monday for three hours.

Olmert told the Committee that the withdrawal plan calling for the removal of most of the communities throughout Judea and Samaria is no longer relevant.

Two senior aides from the Prime Minister's office, Shalom Turjeman and Yoram Turbowitz, left for the US on Monday night, reportedly to inform Bush administration officials that the Realignment Plan is dead. However, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office deny the report saying that the two top aides are delivering a post-Lebanon War briefing to Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and not to bury the Realignment Plan.

The plan was at the heart of Olmert’s election campaign, but "what I saw a few months ago," he said, is no longer applicable.

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(IsraelNN.com) Senior aides to the prime minister, Yoram Turbowitz and Shalom Turjeman, left on Monday night for the United States, where they will hold a series of meetings.

Officials in the Prime Minister’s Office deny rumors that the two are traveling to inform officials in Washington of the “death of the Realignment Plan,” insisting the meetings surround other matters, including the PA (Palestinian Authority), Syria and the Iranian threat.
 
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