Peres: Consolidation in the West Bank during the coming year

The article below is an article that I translated from the Hebrew original at the request of Harvey in Efrat, who sent it to me, and David Bedein, who sent it to him. For those of you who read Hebrew and want to critique my translating skills, you will find the original here. Note that this article has not been published anywhere else in Israel in any language. Ehud Olmert and Shimon Peres don't