AND THE WALL MOVES ON!
August 3, 2007
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Legal battles in Israeli courts concerning disputes between local Arabs and Israelis over the security barrier, up until three months ago, had quite often gone against the Israelis. In many cases the fence/barrier/ wall had to be torn down and rerouted after the Arabs won the verdicts. This has caused long delays in the anticipated completion date for the security barrier. Even when the Israelis won the suits, the court time involved slowed the rate of construction.
During the last three months most of the Arab cases have been thrown out or lost, and it appears construction will proceed at a faster rate. The best estimate I can come up is late 2008 to early 2009.
Those living on the Israeli side of
the barrier, both Jew and Arab, do have a better mindset of security and safety than their counterparts.
Once the security barrier is completed and operational, I believe it will meet the qualification requirement to satisfy fulfillment of the following prophetic Scripture.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief.
One of the first things the Acting Prime Minister Olmert did, after he replaced the stroke incapacitated Ariel Sharon, was to attempt to speed up the completion of the Security Barrier Wall. I have included a news release to this effect, which we included in our Blog of April 27, 2006.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article of August 3, 2007
High Court Gives Go Ahead to Separation Fence in N. Judea
Arutz Sheva
19 Av 5767, 03 August 07 04:11
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
(IsraelNN.com) The High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a petition against continued construction of the separation barrier in Gush Etzion, in northern Judea, after the IDF agreed to cut the fence’s protective shoulders by 50%. Residents of the Palestinian Authority who appealed against the fence claimed that it was being built on their expropriated farm lands.
“We are satisfied that, under the circumstances, the balance struck by the military commander between the needs of security, the rights of the Israelis and the rights of the Palestinian residents
was measured,” the High Court’s statement read. “The military commander’s decision was made after he considered all relevant factors and after he accepted upon himself the standards set by this court in precedent-setting rulings issued in relation to the security fence, and following a detailed examination of the various alternatives.”
The separation barrier is a 790-kilometer (491-mile) fence and wall combination designed to allow greater control over passage between the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas and the rest of Israel.
Greater control, it is thought, lessens the ability of PA terrorists to make it into heavily populated Jewish areas to carry out suicide bombings.
The effectiveness of the barrier and its political meaning, as an unofficial PA-Israel border, is a matter of dispute in Israel.
Justices Dorit Beinish, Ayala Procaccia and Esther Hayot affirmed Thursday that the barrier’s path does cut through and expropriate extensive parts of the petitioners’ farmland in Gush Etzion. In their decision, the justices said that constructing the fence closer to the homes of the Jewish town of Efrat and leaving a commanding hill to the PA farmers may have caused less disruption for the petitioners; however, noted the court, the IDF said that such a revision would endanger Israeli lives. %ad%
“It is evident from the statements of the respondents that, in planning the route of the fence, significant effort was made to limit the impact on the petitioners, without compromising the security purpose of the fence,” the justices wrote.
“In spite of those efforts, no alternate route was found that satisfies security requirements. The respondents pledged, however, that in the property of the petitioners the construction work on the fence would be cut back to 50 meters west of its current line.”
The justices said that the impact of the barrier on the lives and property of the petitioners is proportional to the benefit to be obtained for national security.
“There is no dispute that the fence takes up agricultural land privately owned by the petitioners, and thus infringes on their property and livelihood. However, that consideration does not stand alone.
Against that consideration stands security considerations, as well as considerations of the impact on other Palestinian residents in any alternate route.”
The justices noted that the petitioners proposed alternate fence route would merely cut through the property of other PA residents, while the military did not see an alternate route as providing the same level of security. The IDF, according to the High Court, took all the relevant considerations into account in a way “that does not justify our interference.” The state will fairly compensate the petitioners for their expropriated lands, the court noted, as well as limiting the infringement of the petitioners’ property from 100 to 50 meters, and allow them access to their lands without need of an Israeli permit.
More than 30 petitions to the High Court of Justice against the legality
of remaining sections of the separation barrier have yet to be adjudicated. Most of the uncompleted portions of the project are in heavily populated areas near Jerusalem and Gush Etzion. Environmentalists are also appealing against continuation of the project in the southern Hevron Hills, where the Judean Desert is mostly uninhabited except for wildlife and where it extends all the way to the Dead Sea.
Begin Blog of April 27, 2006
Israel Internally Fences in Terrorists while Terrorists Externally Do the Same to Israel on their Outer Borders!
April 27, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
The acceleration of the Security Barrier/Fence/Wall to establish internal borders between the Palestinians and Israelis is being pushed by Ehud Olmert, while terrorist group leaders are accelerating the buildup of terror organizations around the outer borders of Israel. I suspect in 2008 both Israel and the exterior terror groups will have been able to complete their work, and things will become very interesting from the prospective of prophetic fulfillment during the period 2008 to the end of 2012. The next President of the United States may well end up wishing he or she had not won the election.
The latest on the internal security barrier is reported in the following article by Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent.
Begin Haaretz Article
Acting PM Orders to Speed up Jerusalem Fence Construction
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
April 26, 2006
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday instructed security forces to complete the “Jerusalem envelope” section of the separation fence, in the area through which the perpetrators of the recent suicide bombing in Tel Aviv reached the city.
In a meeting with senior politicians and army offiers, Olmert discussed ways of speeding construction and overcoming “legal hold-ups,” a Jerusalem source said.
At a meeting before the Passover holiday, defense establishment officials presented the planned changes to the route.
The route will be amended in three places: the “Ariel fingers” and the Palestinian villages Beit Iksa (at the entrance to Jerusalem) and Jabaa (in Gush Etzion). Olmert has already approved the changes.
Altering the route in Ariel is intended to connect it with the main route of the fence from the direction of the settlements Beit Aryeh and Ofarim, south of Ariel, rather than in a straight line westward as was planned initially. This places outside the fence a large area with several thousand Palestinian residents.
Olmert promised during a visit to Ariel in March that the fence in the area would be completed by the end of the year “and secure the entire bloc.” The settlements Karnei Shomron, Kedumim and Immanuel, which the original plan connected to Ariel in one big enclave, will connect to the main fence route in the area of Alfei Menashe.
Beit Iksa was initially included on the “Israeli” side of the fence because of its proximity to the capital, but the Shin Bet and police objected that the village might attract illegal Palestinian job-seekers and become a hotbed of security problems. The Israel Defense Forces later joined their position.
End Haaretz Article
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