Israeli to Discuss Pullout From West Bank with Allies

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JERUSALEM -- Two days before a crucial election, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged Sunday to consult the United States and Europe about his plan to pull out of much of the West Bank, remove settlements and set his country's borders within four years.

Olmert's Kadima party is ahead in the polls, and his two main opponents devoted the end of their campaigns to criticizing him and his plan, after declaring the vote a referendum on the future of Israel's presence in the West Bank, captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast War.

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Israeli to Discuss Pullout From West Bank with Allies

No official campaigning is allowed Monday, the day before the election. Israeli soldiers along the Lebanon border began voting Sunday, the military...

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