Cabinet vote on pullout plan halted

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The cabinet vote on the disengagement plan was halted Sunday evening after Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, and Education Minister Limor Livnat demanded that the letters of understanding exchanged between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush not be included in the government decision. The demand was made because the letters that Sharon and Bush exchanged clearly state that settlements would ultimately be evacuated.

Earlier Sunday, the Prime Minister's Office said that Likud ministers had reached a compromise deal on the revised disengagement plan.

The new formula was to have enabled Netanyahu, Shalom and Livnat to support it, thus giving it a wide majority of 14 supporters versus seven opponenets.

Sources close to Netanyahu, Livnat and Shalom said the proposal the government will vote on does not include a decision to dismantle settlements, in principle or in practice.

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