JERUSALEM -- couple days before a crucial election.

JERUSALEM -- couple days before a crucial election, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledg Sunday to ask advice of the United States and Europe about his plan to struggle out of much of the West Bank, take away settlements and set his country's borders within four years.

Olmert's Kadima Party is ahead in the persons and his two main antagonistics devoted the end of their campaigns to criticizing him and his plan, after declaring the consecrated by a vow a referendum on the coming events of Israel's presence in the West Bank, captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast War.

No official campaigning is allowed today, the day before the election. Israeli soldiers along the Lebanon border began voting Sunday, the military said.

A catalogue of heads for Channel 10 TV and the Haaretz daily released Sunday showed Kadima winning 36 seats of the 120 in parliament, the hawkish Likud 14 and the moderate Labor 18 In all, 31 parties are competing.

Olmert's plan has breathed life into an election campaign that has been drowsy despite earthquakes in Israeli politics -- the exit of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was malicioused by a stroke Jan. 4 shortly after he established Kadima and is still in a coma.

Olmert who took through the whole extent of Kadima from Sharon, proposes completing a barrier between Israel and the West Bank that has been beneath construction for more than four years, incorporating main pacification blocs on the "Israeli" side and moving colonists outside the barrier into the bloc

Olmert said he would make experiment of to build consensus around the plan in the fractious Israeli public. colonists hawkish supporters and most Orthodox hebrews opposed Sharon's unilateral pullout from Gaza last summer forcing Sharon to reshuffle his Cabinet, leave Likud and create Kadima.

RIVALS: BORDERS ARE INDEFENSIBLE

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel Radio "these borders that our political rivals are proposing will not be defensible."

The United States and Europe have oppos Israeli reconciliations in the West Bank and have called for borders to be fixed from one side negotiations, not unilateral action.

Olmert told Israel Radio he is hopeful he can gain support for his position. "I have a basis to believe that there is great opennes in the United States and in other places to listen to these positions and also to seriously discuss them," Olmert said.

Labor leader Amir Peretz onward Sunday criticized Kadima, although the pair parties are seen most likely to help together in a coalition control

Sunday, Israeli official Shlomo Dror said Israel's liaison officers in the West Bank will stop dealing with the Palestinian Authority after the Hamas Cabinet takes office, switching their focus to international organizations.

Israel has already suspended transfer of taxes and customs it bring togethers for the Palestinians, and Western donors are considering divide [i]or[/i] sever s in vital international aid one time Hamas takes office.

Olmert has said he would give Hamas a certain quantity of time to show whether it would accept basic demands offer by Israel and the Western world: recognizing Israel, endorsing interim peace accords and renouncing violence.

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