Tel Aviv, July 27, SPA -- One of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's closest confidants said Friday that Israel should withdraw from «most» of the West Bank in a negotiated deal with the Palestinians and that a previous plan for a major unilateral pullback was no longer viable. Vice-premier Haim Ramon, one of the politicians closest to Olmert, told Israel Radio that he favored reducing the Israeli presence in the West Bank to the «large settlement blocs» and that NATO forces could replace Israeli troops in the areas evacuated. «In my eyes, the occupation of the territories threatensour very existence, our legitimacy and our internationalstanding,» Ramon said in the radio interview.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/470720