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The Reporter: Sharon�s �peace plan� would maintain Gaza settlements, but remove West Bank roadblocks
Leslie Susser

Palestinians traveling from one West Bank city to another would no longer have to pass through any Israeli roadblocks, under the terms of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon�s "secret peace" plan, his aides have told The Jerusalem Report.

Sharon is also prepared to sweeten the pot by offering the Palestinians an additional 7 percent of the West Bank, beyond the 42 percent under Palestinian Authority civil control.

Sharon disclosed the existence of the plan, without

details, at the annual "Caesarea Conference" of Israel�s top economic leaders, held in Jerusalem in early July. But, The Report has been told, it will only be formally put to the Palestinians after they meet Sharon�s longstanding demands: stop terror, change their leadership and start implementing institutional reforms.

Outlines of the plan emerged in early June, when Sharon visited the White House. He told President Bush that he was prepared to hand over the extra 7 percent from "Area C," currently under full Israeli and civil control, as part of the third further redeployment of forces to which Israel

is committed under the terms of the 1998 Wye River agreement. This would give the Palestinians control of 49.1 percent of the West Bank, as well as two thirds of the Gaza Strip, in which they would be able to declare provisional statehood.

Sharon showed Bush a map demonstrating how a system of roads, bridges and tunnels would give this provisional Palestinian state territorial contiguity. "No Palestinian going from one West Bank city to another would have to pass through an Israeli roadblock," a Sharon aide told The Report.

Sharon aides, however, flatly refuse to confirm reports that he is considering dismantling a number of isolated West Bank settlements, including Ganim and Kadim near Jenin, to boost Palestinian territorial contiguity. And the aides were adamant that no settlements would be dismantled in Gaza.

They said Sharon is prepared to participate in a U.S.-led economic recovery program similar to the Marshall Plan in Europe after World War II.

The basic principles of the prime minister's plan, Sharon aides say, are similar to those outlined by Bush in his landmark June 24 Mideast policy statement. But Sharon would like more than the three years Bush allocated for negotiating final borders for the Palestinian state. That, they say, is one reason why he is proposing ceding an extra 7 percent: He is prepared, in their view, to be "generous with territory" for the provisional state if the Palestinians are "generous with time" for negotiating full statehood.

  

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