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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 02:50 AM
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New Knesset bill would mandate fence built along Green Line
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/367528.html

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" A group of Labor and Yi'ud (Meretz) lawmakers have
submitted a Knesset bill to mandate the
construction of a fence along the route of the
Green Line, Israel's pre-1967 war border with the
West Bank, Labor MK Danny Yatom said in remarks
broadcast on Tuesday.

The present barrier route has
engendered broad
international and Palestinian
criticism, following cabinet
decisions that diverted the
route to encompass thousands
of settlers living in West
Bank settlements relatively
far from the Green Line.

Palestinians have called the altered route a
land grab for the benefit of settlers. The
United States has also been vocally critical of
the route, which, despite government insistence
to the contrary, is believed by many to
constitute the de facto basis of a future
border between Israel and a Palestinian state."




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Classical_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-03 05:11 AM
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1. This sounds orwellian actually
Did you read this quote?

According to our bill, the barrier, the fence,
must be along the Green Line, and must include
within it the large settlement blocs that are
adjacent to the Green Line."


Therefore it is not on the green line, since it mandates the inclustion of West Bank settlements. All they are doing is putting Sharon's monstrocity into writing and claiming it is something different then the previous policy.
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BlackFrancis Donating Member (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-03 02:37 PM
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3. not exactly..
Palestinians would get screwed on water would be the only downfall there (and that is deadly serious over there don't get me wrong). It doesn't however lock them into cantons the way the present projected wall does or restrict their access to the rest of the world.
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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-03-03 12:37 PM
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2. It's a good idea.
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