GET THE SHOW ON
THE ROAD BY FINISHING THE FENCE!
January 6, 2005
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The main issue that will decide the next election entails which party
the Israeli public believes can finish the security barrier the quickest, get the Palestinians enclosed behind it the soonest, set up and monitor the security checkpoints more rapidly, and keep the terrorists locked inside the barrier the most effectively. The Israeli public has come to accept the security barrier/fence/wall and its checkpoint security as the only way a time of “relative” peace can come to Israel society.
Parts from the article “Finish the Fence” in the Jerusalem Post, which follows, were extracted to show the progress and the importance of the security barrier/fence/wall, which has been under construction since 2002. The primary reason for the slowness of the construction has thus far been twofold: (1) The United States objection to it, and, (2) The delays caused by Israeli High Courts in many local areas along it went against the precise placement imposed by the Israeli Knesset. It should have been completed in 2005, but now it appears it will not be finished until some time in 2007.
BEGINS EXTRACTS FROM JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Finish the Fence
THE JERUSALEM POST
January 2, 2006
Lt.
Ori Binamo, the IDF officer who on Thursday discovered a Palestinian suicide bomber at a roadblock near Tulkarm and paid for it with his life, was a hero. But this sort of heroism might not have been necessary had the building of the security fence, which the government promised to complete by the end of 2005, been finished.
Under these circumstances, it is worth reviewing where the construction of security fence stands.
So far, about 200 km. have been built,
roughly along the northern portion of the Green Line from the Jordanian border to the Petah Tikva area.
Another 10 km.
have been built north of Jerusalem and 10 km.
more south of the capital. This leaves more than half of the barrier incomplete – about 350 km. have yet to be built.
One problem here is that the public has no way of knowing why construction of
the much-promised fence has not proceeded at its original pace. The Knesset should hold hearings on this after the elections. In the meantime, the most likely reason for delay is that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reluctant to contend with the two most important critics of the fence’s route, our High Court of Justice and the United States.
Similarly, American concerns about fencing in the settlement blocs should not be allowed to stop the fence from being built.
So long as the threat of terrorism remains clear and present, Israel has the right and responsibility to put the security of its citizens first, not the diplomatic concerns of other nations. Israel might point out to these nations that the fence, far from blocking the creation of a Palestinian state, is actually consistent with, and even likely to advance that end.
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