LATEST STATUS ON BUILDING THE SECURITY BARRIER
Supplement to Archive Special Prophecy Update 67A
February 11, 2006
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The Israeli security wall/fence/barrier, as I reported last year, will not be completely finished until 2007.
The following usurps, extracted from an article by Rafael D. Frankel, the Jerusalem Post, give the highlight paragraphs of some of the details of its construction. When completed, it will be about 451 miles in length, and will finally give the Israelis the mindset of a relative sense of “peace and safety.” Please read Special Prophecy Update Number 67A in our Archives.
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.
BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
Security Fence Won’t be Done Before 2007
By Rafael D. Frankel, The Jerusalem Post
February 7, 2006
By the end of March, the security fence will represent a “continuous obstacle” to terrorists as the segments which roughly follow the Green Line will be nearly finished, even as the total barrier remains about half completed, Col. (res.) Danny Tirza and Defense Ministry spokeswoman Rachel Naidek Ashkenazi told The Jerusalem Post in interviews.
Though the portion of
the fence surrounding Jerusalem on three sides will be finished by the end of the summer, long sections around Ariel and Gush Etzion will not be completed until next year, as legal and logistical challenges slow its construction, Tirza said.
In his office at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Tirza, who is responsible for planning the route of the 740-km.
fence, spoke in detail to the Post about its status and the final route it will likely take.
Using a long pointer, Tirza went over the route of the fence segment by segment on a map which nearly spans the length of his wall, with the north to the right and the south to the left.
However, excluding the fence’s segments which project deep into the West Bank, the main perimeter of the barrier will be finished within two months, Tirza said.
And that line “will represent a continuous obstacle to terrorist infiltration into the heart of Israel,” Ashkenazi added.
The only exceptions in the perimeter which roughly follows the Green Line would be small sections where the High Court has issued injunctions against building pending expected decisions on the route.
By the end of summer, construction will finish on
the 85-km.
segment which falls roughly along the municipal borders of Jerusalem as defined by Israel, Tirza said. However, the extended segment encompassing Ma’aleh Adumim would not be complete before the end of the year.
Two of the three remaining segments of the fence, around Ariel (roughly 150 km.) and Gush Etzion (roughly 60 km.), are also the most problematic for engineering, legal and political reasons, and will not be finished until 2007. The remaining section, from Metzadot Yehuda in the southern Judean Hills to the fence’s termination point around eight km.
from the Dead Sea, should be done by the end of the year.
The area around Gush Etzion is the most complex in terms of logistics, and its completion – which would mark the total completion of the fence – is not expected until the end of 2007.
He dismissed speculation that the fence would serve as a de-facto border in a future unilateral disengagement from the West Bank, repeating the government line that the fence was being built for security purposes and not as a means to set political boundaries.
END JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE
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