LONDON, April 17, 2004 (WAFA) - The British daily the "Guardian" called Friday on the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to reject Sharon's plan of keeping Israeli colonies in the West Bank and denying the refugees right to return.... In its editorial, the Guardian said that the Israeli prime minister proposes "disengagement" from Gaza, but that is only half the picture.... The other half is a promise to keep hold of large chunks of the West Bank, those which now house more than 200,000 Jewish settlers. Sharon sees this as a quid pro quo: Israel gives up Gaza and in return gets to keep choice cuts from the West Bank, not for the time being or until a final peace deal but, as Sharon puts it, "for all eternity".... It also pointed out that Sharon has won a reversal of decades of US policy: no longer does Washington regard settlements as illegal and "obstacles to peace" but instead sees them as "new realities on the ground" to be recognized.... The Guardian added that by keeping them under Israeli rule, what's left of the West Bank will be sliced into a Swiss cheese that can never be the "viable" Palestinian state Bush still promises, thereby preventing the two-state solution which is surely the best hope for both peoples. As if that was not enough, Bush threw in a bonus, explicitly echoing the Israeli position that any return of Palestinian refugees will have to be to the future Palestinian state, not Israel....