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	Israel's Security Fence
		Israelis living along the Green Line, both Jews and Arabs, favor the fence to prevent infiltration by suicide bombers and by thieves and vandals.
		Israeli negotiators have always envisioned the future border to be the 1967 frontier with modifications to minimize the security risk to Israel and maximize the number of Jews living within the State.
		The deaths of Israelis caused by terror are permanent and irreversible whereas the hardships faced by the Palestinians are temporary and reversible.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/fence.html (2923 words)

	International Court of Justice (ICJ) Ruling on Israeli Security Barrier (Fence, Wall)
		By resolution 62 (1948) of 16 November 1948, the Security Council decided that “an armistice shall be established in all sectors of Palestine” and called upon the parties directly involved in the conflict to seek agreement to this end.
		On 22 November 1967, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 242 (1967), which emphasized the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by war and called for the “Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict”, and “Termination of all claims or states of belligerency”.
		Israeli citizens, Israeli permanent residents and those eligible to immigrate to Israel in accordance with the Law of Return may remain in, or move freely to, from and within the Closed Area without a permit.
	www.zionism-israel.com /hdoc/ICJ_fence.htm (12240 words)

	Israel's Security Fence Gains Global Support
		The “Security Fence” is a manifestation of Israel’s basic commitment to defend its citizens, and once completed, it will improve the ability of the IDF to prevent the infiltration of terrorists and criminal elements into Israel for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks or the smuggling of arms and explosives.
		Second, while Israelis are fully prepared to live with Palestinians, and 20 percent of the Israeli population is already Arab, it is the Palestinians who say they do not want to live with any Jews and call for the West Bank to be judenrein.
		The land used in building the security fence is seized for military purposes, not confiscated, and it remains the property of the owner.
	www.israelnewsagency.com /israelsecurityfence1001.html (1103 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Palestinians worry about Israeli barrier
		And I'm not a cynic at all because it is a daring move [based] on the sheer exhaustion of the Israelis and the Palestinians.
		But Moisi notes that the controversial security barrier being built by Israel continues to be a potential stumbling block to a permanent peace agreement.
		Palestinians officials are expressing concern about another Israeli cabinet vote on Sunday - a vote that endorsed a new route for the security barrier that loops around some of the remaining Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10814 (992 words)

	Israelâs security wall/barrier, dismantle: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions
		Israelis and Palestinians will need to learn to live side by side but building an 8 metre high wall sends a clear message to Palestinians that Israel is hostile and unwilling to find a permanent solution that would suit both nations.
		The Israeli government may say that the wall is only a temporary measure, but in the Occupied Territories earlier âtemporary measuresâ, such as Israeli settlements and military seizure of Palestinian land, have usually proved to be permanent.
		Yet âthe barrier is not intended as a political border between two entities, but merely as a hurdle between terrorists and their victimsâ as former Israeli defence minister Benjamin ben Eliezer has put it.
	www.idebate.org /debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=476 (2114 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Chris McGreal reports on the Israeli security fence
		Cries for the government to get the barrier finished rose again a fortnight ago at the sight of the limp bodies of six children slaughtered in the worst bus bombing of the intifada, and the threat by Hamas of "rivers of blood" after Israel's subsequent assassination of one of its leaders.
		But Palestinian fears were reinforced by the undeniable similarity between the proposed path of the barrier and Sharon's stated intention to confine the Palestinians to 42% of the occupied territories focused around three or four cantons.
		Israeli judges have refused to block construction of the fence or order it rerouted, on the grounds that it is a security issue and therefore the military can do as it pleases.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1034483,00.html (3398 words)

	Bush softens opposition to Israeli wall - Greenwich Time
		Four days after describing the barrier as a "problem" because it snakes through Palestinian territory, Bush acknowledged that it is a "sensitive issue" and appeared to accept Sharon's pledge that it would be built in a way that minimizes the impact on Palestinian lives.
		Israeli leaders have complained that Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has failed to crack down sufficiently on Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which have claimed responsibility for repeated attacks on Israeli civilians over the past 2 1/2 years.
		The stated purpose of the barrier, a combination of walls and fences, is to protect Israeli civilians by preventing the infiltration of suicide bombers and gunmen into Israel proper.
	www.greenwichtime.com /bal-te.sharon30jul30,0,2856926.story?page=1 (869 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Barrier -- February 10, 2004
		The security barrier Israel is erecting along its border with the West Bank prohibits Palestinians without proper papers from crossing into Israel.
		But Israeli leaders are not backing away from finishing the separation barrier, which they insist is necessary to stop attacks like this suicide bombing in Jerusalem last month, which was carried out by a Palestinian policeman.
		He mentioned the Israeli high court and the International Court of Justice in the Hague, which are both holding hearings on the barrier.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/barrier2_2-10.html (2207 words)

	CNN.com - Red Cross criticizes Israeli security barrier - Feb. 18, 2004
		U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said the barrier is counterproductive to the so-called "road map" to Mideast peace sponsored by the United States, the European Union, the U.N. and Russia.
		The Israeli government has said it has begun discussing changing the barrier route to reduce its impact on the Palestinians, as part of Sharon's plan to "disengage" Israel from the Palestinians.
		Israeli Army radio quoted a government source Wednesday as saying the plan, which would involve removing Jewish settlements in Gaza, would not begin until after the U.S. presidential elections in November, over fears it would cause problems for President Bush.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/02/18/mideast (813 words)

	U.S. Written Statement Submitted in ICJ Proceeding on Israeli Security Barrier
		The United States today submitted a written statement to the International Court of Justice in The Hague concerning the request by the General Assembly for an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the construction of the Israeli security barrier.
		It emphasizes the Quartet-led Roadmap as the agreed upon method for moving toward a negotiated settlement, endorsed by both the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly, and it urges the Court to avoid any actions that would interfere with or be inconsistent with the Roadmap.
		Although it is not clear precisely what issues the Court might address, the statement urges the Court to give due regard to the principle that its advisory opinion jurisdiction is not intended as a means of circumventing the right of States to determine whether to submit their disputes to judicial settlement.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2004/28639.htm (429 words)

	Legal Opinion regarding the Israeli security barrier, checkoiunt and occupation
		Although the Committee stated that although it understood Israel’s security fears, it nevertheless determined that the barrier should be constructed on “Israeli, not Palestinian land”; that the construction process and the path of the barrier supported Palestinian fears as to Israel’s motivation; and that the barrier destroys the viability of a future Palestinian State.
		Under Oslo II, the responsibility for ensuring security and maintaining public order in the West Bank is divided between Israel and the Palestinians, according to the type of security threat and the location of its source.
		Under the Agreement, Israel retained overall external security responsibility throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and for the security of Israelis and settlements.
	zionism-israel.com /issues/fence_wall.html (5942 words)

	Security Barrier
		Each mile of barrier requires the excavation of 230,000 cubic yards of soil; the laying of 12,000 square yards of asphalt, and the installation of 80 sensor-detector posts, 600 anchor posts, 6,000 square yards of wire fencing, 26,000 yards of barbed wire, and truckloads of other material.
		The Israeli model includes a number of sections composed of concrete wall 10 meters high: such sections will most likely be unnecessary in an American security barrier, so it's possible that the average per-mile cost of an American barrier would be less than that of the Israeli barrier.
		While it is equally likely that such a contiguous security barrier would not be necessary and the roughest terrain would not need to be partitioned, for the purposes of this feature I've ignored the issue of terrain entirely and assumed a contiguous barrier in terms of cost.
	svyatoslav.50megs.com /BARRIER.HTML (1035 words)

	Map of the Israeli security Fence - Updated Status and Evolution
		Israeli peace groups wanted the fence to be built along the 1949 Green Line armistice border.
		IDF security experts argue that the topography does not permit putting the barrier along the green line in many places, because there would be hills or tall buildings on the Palestinian side.
		Demonstrations against the barrier have often been suppressed by the IDF with rubber bullets and other extreme force, though the demonstrations by Palestinians and by Israeli anarchists were non-violent.
	www.mideastweb.org /thefence.htm (1030 words)

	Israeli West Bank barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, prior to the Camp David 2000 Summit with Yasser Arafat, vowed to build a separation barrier, stating that it is "essential to the Palestinian nation in order to foster its national identity and independence without being dependent on the State of Israel".
		Israeli officers, including the head of the Shin Bet, quoted in the newspaper Maariv, have claimed that in the areas where the barrier was complete, the number of hostile infiltrations has decreased to almost zero.
		Israeli public opinion has been very strongly in favor of the barrier, partly in the hope that it will improve security and partly in the belief that the barrier marks the eventual border of a Palestinian state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier (5847 words)

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		The 480-mile security barrier, currently under construction, is comprised 97% of chain link fence and 3% of a concrete barrier.
		Contrary to anti-Israel propaganda, only 5 miles of the barrier is concrete, or can be described as "a wall." The concrete sections are primarily in the area of the Palestinian cities of Qualqilya and Tulkarim, the locus of many terrorist operations, where snipers often shoot at Israeli civilians.
		The security barrier is called a "wall," Israel, the "occupying Power," and the West Bank referred to as "Occupied Palestinian Territory." There is no mention of Israel's reasons for constructing the security fence orof Palestinian terrorism - factors that the Court must consider for a fair opinion.
	www.adl.org /Israel/court_of_justice.asp (1580 words)

	New Israeli security barrier becomes focus of protests
		An Israeli woman was arrested on April 15 at Biddou, near Jerusalem, at a demonstration against the new security wall.
		East Village war photographer Q. Sakamaki was in the West Bank and Gaza from March 22-April 17, during which time he photographed protests against the new Israeli security wall and the reaction in Gaza directly after the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
		The Palestinians bring onions and the foreigners bring alcohol to sniff to clear their nose and eyes.” Yassin was the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, an organization that opposes Israel’s existence and is the leading source of suicide bombings.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_56/newisraelisecurity.html (323 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- U.N. General Assembly delays vote on Israeli security barrier
		The Israeli Supreme Court, however, has ordered the army to change the route of the barrier in a 20-mile stretch near Jerusalem, saying it was causing too much hardship on the local Palestinian population.
		In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom's office said Monday he was seeking European Union support in fighting a Palestinian attempt to secure U.N. sanctions if Israel refuses to accept the world court ruling.
		A Foreign Ministry statement said Shalom called EU foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana and said the EU's position on the forthcoming General Assembly vote would be an indicator of the Europeans' ability to take a balanced stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040719-1423-un-israelbarrier.html (679 words)

	Israeli Security Barrier: Bar to Terror or to Peace? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As if to prove it, today 19 more Israelis were murdered and scores more injured.
		The NY Times, under pressure from their "Jewish readership," uses the term "security barrier." But that is an illusion.
		This wall will bring neither security nor serve as a barrier to people determined to wreck mayhem and avenge their own losses.
	www.israelblog.org /1065313333 (529 words)

	Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
		Bunrs describes the effect that the recent decision to extend the Israeli security barrier around the large settlement of Ariel - a large settlement deep in the West Bank - will have on the neighboring Palestinian village of Haris.
		Thomas Friedman argues that Israelis feel they need the security wall for protection from suicide bombers, but the key is where that wall is built.
		Gorenberg describes the construction of the Israeli Security Fence and talks extensively with Col. Dany Tirza, the architect of the project.
	www.btvshalom.org /resources/security_fence.shtml (621 words)

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		At the heart of JAJP's efforts is its call for the evacuation of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories and the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the West Bank.
		To Israelis, the justifications for the construction of their settlements and their continued habitation are varied.
		The barrier is not a security barrier, but rather a political barrier to progress towards peace." Regardless of JAJP's attempt to undermine the security fence, in truth no Israeli was killed in a terrorist attack in an area where the fence had been completed in all of 2004.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /groupProfile.asp?grpid=7240 (1135 words)

	Russia 'wants to copy Israeli security barrier in Chechnya' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Premier Ariel Sharon and Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra met Monday with Dmitry Kozak, head of counterterrorism in Chechnya and the Kremlin's envoy to southern Russia, for talks which officials said focused primarily on the construction of a security fence.
		The barrier, which consists mainly of a fence, except in urban areas like Qalqiliya and Jerusalem where it is a wall, has come in for harsh criticism because in some locations it snakes deep into the West Bank to incorporate as many settlements as possible.
		The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared in an advisory opinion in July 2004 that the barrier was illegal because it was built on occupied territory.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/printer_1060571.php (365 words)

	Andrew Apostolou on United Nations & Israel on National Review Online
		The ICJ decided that the barrier is illegal, that Israel should pull it down and that the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council should consider what further action ought to be taken.
		The Israeli security barrier is not the sort of dispute that the ICJ was designed to handle.
		The latest Israeli attempt to form a government of national unity should give prime minister Ariel Sharon the political strength to be able to withdraw all Israelis from the Gaza strip before then starting similar moves in the West Bank.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/apostolou200407190844.asp (1018 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Support for an Israeli Security Barrier
		The Israeli cabinet has voted to extend a security barrier that would sweep around Jewish settlements deep in the so-called West Bank.
		Israeli civilians have been sitting ducks for Palestinian terrorists for too long.
		Israeli radio reported that similar barriers also would be erected east of several other settlements in the West Bank heartland, including the town of Efrat, just south of Bethlehem.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1223100.html (284 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Red Cross slams Israel barrier
		The aid agency said the barrier, whose proposed route cuts into Palestinian areas, went "far beyond what is permissible for an occupying power".
		It says that, where the barrier runs through occupied territory, thousands of Palestinians have been deprived of access to water, health care and education.
		The Israeli ambassador to international organisations in Geneva, Yaakov Levy, told the Associated Press news agency that Israel "regretted" the ICRC's decision to criticise the barrier.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3498795.stm (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Books: Isabel Kershner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Using numerous interviews and impressive legwork, Kerchner conveys both the tragic necessity of a physical separation to shield Israelis from terrorism, as well as the bureaucratic nightmare of Kafkaesque proportions the arbitrary divide represents for the Palestinians caught on the wrong side as they are subjected to a barrage of hardships, humiliations and expropriations.
		To Kershner's credit, she does explain that the Israeli security barrier is "less an expression of choice than a measure of last resort." Suicide bombers had killed and maimed plenty of Israelis and "posed an existential threat to the Israeli way of life." In addition, the suicide bombings precluded peace negotiations.
		She mentions that only 5 or 6 per cent of the barrier is a wall, with the rest being a fence.
	www.amazon.com /Barrier-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict-Isabel-Kershner/dp/1403968012 (2480 words)

	Israeli Security Barrier Meant to Ensure Jewish Majority -- Beliefnet.com
		Jerusalem, July 11 - Israel's separation barrier in Jerusalem is meant to ensure a Jewish majority in the city and not just serve as a buffer against bombers, an Israeli Cabinet minister acknowledged Monday.
		Israel began building the barrier more than two years ago at the height of a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings.
		Zeev Boim, Israel's deputy defense minister, denied the barrier route was dictated by demographic considerations.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/170/story_17063_1.html (733 words)

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