German Foreign Minister slams Israel for building fence

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=373201&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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"German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer criticized Israel on Wednesday for the building of the West Bank separation fence, saying it made no sense from a security standpoint for it to cut into Palestinian territory.

"No one questions Israel's right to defend itself against the terrorist threat," Fischer said, commenting on the barrier of fence, razor wire, trenches and cement that slices deep into the West Bank in some places."

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"If Israel believes that it needs a security fence, that cannot be criticized, as long as this fence follows the course of the Green Line," he said, referring to Israel's frontier with the West Bank before the 1967 war.

"The present course of the fence is, however, barely understandable from a security point of view," Fischer said. "It is precisely this fact that attracts very serious criticism, not just in Israel but also in Europe and the United States."

its good you pontificate from such lofty altitudes.

Of course your countries expertise is fences that keep
people in and not the other way around. But I digress..

Former president Reagan asked the germans to take down the Berlin wall and they did,will Bush ask the Sharon thugs to take down their wall and dismantle the settlement?if not cut off all that american money that help put up the wall and help settlers steal arab land.

:crazy:

thanks for setting an example

B

Please explain to me his analogy then. I sort of missed it.

:shrug: