Sharon also commented on the demographic problem - whose existence he has denied in the past - saying that it had played a decisive role in the route of the separation fence.
"Had we wanted to build the fence on the border of the security zone, known today as Area C, the fence would have been a lot further to the east," he said. "But such a move would have left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians inside the fence, and these Palestinians would have eventually joined forces with Arab Israelis, and then it would certainly have been a major problem."
