(AP/San Francisco Chronicle) - "If I believed there was a real chance of reaching a (peace) agreement, I would advise making the effort, but that is not the situation," Israel's vice-premier Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Friday in Yediot Ahronot. Olmert said Israel has two choices - either to withdraw to the so-called "green line," or an "inclusive unilateral move...where we define our borders that will in no way be similar to the 'green line.'" Sharon and prime ministers before him have said they will not withdraw to the 1967 borders. "I won't define the border," Olmert said. "I will just say that it will be based on a maximization of the number of Jews and a minimization of the number of Arabs inside the State of Israel."
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