right foes who oppose his plan to abandon some Jewish settlements and who may challenge his grip on power. "The significance of our disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. It supplies the formaldehyde necessary so there is no political process with Palestinians," Weisglass told Haaretz in comments published on Wednesday. "When you freeze the process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state ... Effectively, this whole package called a Palestinian state, with all it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda," he added. The United States has sought to cast Sharon's unilateral "disengagement" plan as workable within the U.S.-backed "road map," whose key elements included Palestinian efforts to stop attacks on Israel, a freeze on Israeli settlement activity and the target of creating a Palestinian state by next year. The Quartet of the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, which drafted the peace plan, on Sept. 22 bluntly acknowledged that "no significant progress has been achieved on the road map." --SP 2332 Local Time 2032 GMT
