Sharon ‘offers’ to scrap some settlements to ensure peace

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published on Sunday that he was willing to remove some Jewish settlements in the We...

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published on Sunday that he was willing to remove some Jewish settlements in the West Bank for peace with the Palestinians.

Sharon, long a champion of Jewish settlement on the occupied land in the 1967 West Asia war, told the liberal daily Ha’aretz he was ready to take steps ‘‘that are painful for every Jew and for me personally’’.

‘‘Our whole history is bound up with these places: Bethlehem, Shiloh, Beit El. I know that we will have to part with some of these places,’’ Sharon said. ‘‘I feel that the rational necessity to reach a settlement is overcoming my feelings,’’ he said.

Shiloh and Beit El are Jewish settlements in the W Bank. Bethlehem was reoccupied by Israel last June along with six other Palestinian cities after a spate of suicide bombings.

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