Palestinian rights curtailed by high fence

Dr. Hussein Abdulminim Amery | Gulf News

Shortly after the occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israelis started building colonies there. Their number and size have been growing ever since. The word "settlement" implies a temporary, crude, small-scale encampment - the type of mundane event that should not raise any political or legal red flags.

Although some of the so-called settlements such as Ma'ale Adumim now house tens of thousands of Israelis, and have been there for many decades, the world's media continue to describe them as mere settlements. Also, very few journalists remind their audiences that it is illegal for Palestinian Christians and Muslims to live in these Jews-only cities and towns.

Upon pressure from the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, stated in the spring of 2003 that, in the interest of re-kindling peace talks with the Palestinians, his government will dismantle a few "illegal settlements" that have been erected in the West Bank in the past two years. The phrase portrays Israel as a law-abiding, peace-seeking state.

In the summer of 2002, Israel started building a 360-kilometre long wall around the West Bank. It is twice as long and three times as high as the Berlin Wall. The so-called "security wall" is being built well inside the West Bank's 1967 Armistice lines, with twists and turns to enclose almost all the Jewish colonies while at times passing through Palestinian villages and neighbourhoods.

Substantial areas of the West Bank are being annexed to Israel as a result of the wall, an almost-irreversible geo-political ground reality is being created, and many Palestinians are having difficulty reaching their fields, marketing their goods and maintaining their social ties with relatives and friends in nearby areas.

And the high number of suicide bombers made it happen.

No nation in history has had to cope with the ongoing onslaught of terror like Israel has suffered at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. If they don't want a wall, perhaps they should talk to their leader Mr. Arafat about making peace.

Now I've been happy lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace FENCE
Oh peace FENCE take this country, come take me home again

Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Oh peace FENCE sounding louder
Glide on the peace FENCE
Come on now peace FENCE
Yes, peace FENCE holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace FENCE
Come on now peace FENCE

Get your bags together, go bring your good friends too
Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you

Now come and join the living, it's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer, soon it will all be true

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss

Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace FENCE take this country, come take me home again

http://www.allspirit.co.uk/peacetrain.html :loveya:

You dropped a bomb on me. It would be more appropriate and probably appeal to the Palestinian terror audience.

got a song for Peace Bullets and Peace Bulldozers, while we're goin' hog wild?