Security Barrier Wall Construction at a Standstill!
Attack on Dimona May Revive Renewed Effort to Finish It.
No Question of Need for Barriers, but Not Enough Funds Available.
February 6, 2008
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Palestinian law suits and Environment group protests in Israel’s courts have been used as excuses by the government to slow construction on the national security barrier wall.
The government was delighted to do this because they had run out of money to complete a fence that should have been finished two years ago. Additionally, the number of suicide bombings in Israel had dropped drastically as a result of what barrier wall had been completed, and the issue was put on a back burner in the minds of the Israeli public.
However, the Dimona Suicide bomber attack was the first in more than a year, and should at least cause a short burst of building activity.
Once the security wall/fence/barrier is finally completed, Palestinians will be living inside two walled cities, while Israelis will exist outside it in a land of unwalled villages.
Daniel 11:40-41 – And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
[41] He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.
Ezekiel 38:8-11 – After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
[9] Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be
like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. [10] Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
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We need a fence
Dimona attack reminder that security fence not complete yet
Alex Fishman and Roni Shaked
February 5, 2008
Even terror groups were confused yesterday. So many terrorists crossed from Gaza into the Sinai and are all over the place that their masters don’t even know who is out there and where.
The Fatah in Gaza, for example, rushed to claim responsibility for the terror attack in Dimona and published the photos of two terrorists who crossed into the Sinai in order to carry out an attack in Israel. However, according to Hamas sources the bombing in Dimona originated from the opposite direction and was carried out by a Hamas cell in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Palestinian sources in Hebron reported that the suicide bomber’s mother said that he left the house early in the morning and she didn’t hear from him or see him since.
Palestinian security forces also launched an investigation and a search yesterday, and sources said they did not know who the second would-be bomber was.
If Hamas’ claim that the bombing came out of Hebron is indeed correct, this is yet another proof that we must not rest on our laurels in Judea and Samaria and we must not wait for the Palestinian Authority to handle security problems. Hamas is alive and kicking in the West Bank as well, and the Shin Bet and IDF must cut it down on a daily basis.
Monday’s terror attack is also a reminder, to those who forgot already, that the security fence south of Hebron – which was supposed to be completed two years ago – only exists on paper. The road leading from the Mount Hebron area to the southern Negev desert is completely breached.
No money for project
It turns out that an interesting coalition has been formed by the Greens, who aim to safeguard some kind of a desert ant, and the settlers, who display a political, almost genetic objection to the fence. This coalition has paralyzed the continued construction of the fence.
The government is actually quite satisfied with the paralysis because it has no money to complete the project. The conclusion: Negev residents must take into account the possibility that because of this madness once in a while they will experience infiltration from the southern Mount Hebron area to one of their communities without an advance warning. Then, either we will be lucky, or we won’t be lucky.
Besides that, in order to guarantee that there is no fence there, the arguments around here will start: Which fence should be built first, the security fence south of Hebron or the border fence between Israel and Egypt? Both of them are old, neglected, and well known vulnerabilities in Israel’s soft belly.
Our own familiarity with ourselves makes us think that a fence will not be built either here or there. In a day or two, the terror attack in Dimona will be forgotten, and we will continue to hear pompous speeches and firm decisions regarding the need for a fence – until the next attack comes around.
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Dichter: So Many Fences, So Little Time
30 Shevat 5768, 06 February 08 12:13
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Tuesday that Israel needs to choose between the different fences that it wants to build to protect itself from Arab terrorists, because they can’t all be built at once.
Dichter, who visited the southern town of Dimona following the suicide attack there Monday, was asked when the fence separating the Hevron area from the Beersheva area would be completed.
“This is an old dilemma,” he said. “In the end there will be a fence, but we need to decide first if we seal off the openings in the Hevron area, or complete the fence around greater Jerusalem, or build a fence on the border with Egypt.”
“The dilemmas are difficult, and the state of Israel cannot do everything at the same time,” Dichter explained.
Dichter also commended policeman Supt. Kobi Mor, who shot and killed the second suicide terrorist in the Dimona attack before he could detonate his explosive vest. Mor’s action was documented on video by a local wedding video photographer.
Israeli TV reports Tuesday showed stretches of the area between southern Judea and the Negev desert where there is no security fence, and where Arabs can cross into southern Israel with ease. The infiltration is usually carried out with the complicity of Israeli Arabs, who wait for the infiltrators in their cars, checking all the while that “the coast is clear” and security forces are not watching them. The Isr aeli drivers tr
ansport the infiltrators into Israel, for a fee.
Construction of the security fence around PA-controlled areas began in 2002 and hit a major hitch in 30 June 2004, after Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that a “better balance between security and humanitarian considerations” needed to be struck. This decision was followed by “an intensive reassessment of the route,” according to the Ministry of Defense’s website.
Two pairs of terrorists
It was not clear until Tuesday where the suicide terrorists that struck Dimona had come from. Initial reports said the two had infiltrated from Gaza. A video showing two suicide terrorists who had indeed tried to infiltrate Israel was disseminated by terrorists in Gaza and several groups, including Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Other reports said the terroists came from Hevron.
It later turned out that the confusion was caused by the fact that two pairs of terrorists had operated independently on the same day: one tried to infiltrate from Gaza and the other pair was sent by Hamas and came from the Hevron area. The terrorists from Gaza were killed by the IDF before they could kill innocent civilians, but the other pair of bombers reached Dimona.
Victim laid to rest
Dr. Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, who was murdered in the Dimona attack, was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon, after her body was identified with the aid of DNA samples from her two sons. Her husband, Edward Gedelin, is in critical condition at Soroka hospital. He is under anesthesia and being artificially respirated.
The couple had been employed at the physics department
of Ben Gurion University for the past ten years. Their son, Michael Gedelin, is a professor in the department. He said that his parents had been on their way to the bank when the bomb went off.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised Tuesday to “provide solutions to terror from Hevron and to Kassams from Gaza.”
“Today Kassam rockets were once again fired at Sderot, and yesterday there was a terror attack in Dimona,” Barak told cadets at an officers’ course in Shizafon Base
in the Negev desert. “We will provide the solutions, just as your parents came up with solutions in the past, when they were fighting in the Jordan Valley.”
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