Longer, Shorter, Longer, Shorter and then Longer + Longer!
May 15, 2006
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What immediately follows is an excerpt from Archive Prophecy Update Number 64B, April 22, 2002.
Begin Excerpt from Archive Update 64B, April 22, 2002
The net of “Operation Defensive Shield” is slowly closing on the Palestinians as Phase I of a modified 1968 Yigal Allon Plan is now closing. Phase II will be the building of secure outer rings around the major Palestinian cities to control the traffic flowing in an out of them. Phase III will be the gradual building of a fenced “buffer zone” around the inner periphery of the “Green Line” West Bank Border.
The “buffer zone” will extend from inside the green line to include many of the Israeli settlements, thereby affording them protection
from terrorist intrusions. The only thing that can halt this buffer zone “forced peace” will be for the terrorist groups to stop their activities, and for the Palestinians to accept an offer slightly less than the one previously offered to them at Camp David by Ehud Barak.
One way or the other, Israel is eventually headed for a peace with security or, as the Scripture puts it, “peace and safety.”
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.
End Excerpt from Archive Update 64B, April 22, 2002
It has been more than four years since Israel began to build the security barrier around the West Bank and Gaza Strip in earnest. During that period I have issued many updates on its current status and predicted length.
At times its predicted final length was given as so and so,
and at other times it was extended, and then later retracted in length by other sources. The following excerpts, from a May 11, 2006 article by Ksenia Svtova and Eetta Prince-Gibson in the Jerusalem Post titled “Unfinished Business,” give the latest information on the current particulars of the security barrier. The final length of the completed barrier, including the portion paralleling the Jordan River on the eastern side of the West Bank, is estimated to be 531 miles.
Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Post Article, May 11, 2006
The history of the Jerusalem Envelope began on March 13, 2002, at the height
of the intifada, at an urgent session of a government Committee on National Security.
The committee approved the plan for the Jerusalem Envelope in order to “improve the effectiveness of combating terrorism in the Jerusalem area
and to preserve the Israeli interest in it.”
A month later, on April 14, following the Park Hotel massacre in Netanya during Seder night, the committee met again. Responsibility for the construction of
the barrier was delegated to the Defense Ministry, which was instructed to consult with the Internal Security Ministry, the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Police and the relevant municipal and other authorities. The Seam Project was established within the Defense Ministry in order to implement the decision.
The committee issued a directive to construct the barrier immediately in the three areas they deemed the most troublesome – Anin (in the vicinity of Umm el-Fahm area); the Tulkarm circuit; and the Jerusalem area. The authorities considered these three spots to be the most vulnerable and the easiest to penetrate.
The Defense Ministry told In Jerusalem that when completed, the Jerusalem Envelope, as currently routed, will be 88 km.
long. To date, 33 km. have been completed and another 34 km.
are in advanced stages of construction. Thus, by the end of 2006, a total of 67 km. of the barrier will have been completed and a temporary barrier will be constructed along the unfinished sections.
According to data presented this week to the government by former defense minister Shaul Mofaz, when completed, the entire security barrier will measure some 870 km., of which 335 km. are already operational; 137 km. are under construction; 28 km. have been prepared for construction; 26 km. are currently being challenged within the Israeli courts; 119 km. have been put on hold under court orders; 13 km. are undergoing statutory processes and adjustment; 138 km. are still being examined by the Justice Ministry and 92 km. are awaiting the approval of the political echelons.
According to the proposed route as presented on the official Web site of the Defense Ministry (www.securityfence.mod.gov.il), in the Jerusalem area the fence will not follow the city’s municipal boundaries. Rather, it will include some of both the Jewish and Palestinian settlements that are situated “in close proximity” to those borders.
End Excerpts from Jerusalem Post Article, May 11, 2006
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