"The Wall is built strictly for security reasons"
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"It has no political content whatsoever"
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It is interesting to note, that the right and the settlers
spat venom at any mention of the separation Wall
as long as they thought that it would be built along the Green Line.
Immediately after the elections,
in January 2003, Sharon started using the Wall
as another means for further annexation of land,
oppression of the Palestinian people, and breaking their national spirit.
Many private settlers are using the Wall as a means of extortion.
They offer Palestinian land owners to buy their land at ridiculously low prices,
on the basis that if they do not sell,
the land will soon be lost anyway behind the Wall.
Every settlement is applying pressure to be included behind the Wall.
The result of all this is an impossiblely winding path,
reflecting the huge political pressure and greed,
which snakes deep inside Palestinian territory,
cutting villages and towns,
separating farmers from their land and water resources,
children from their schools, patients from their hospitals
and merchants from their markets.
The Eastern section of the Wall runs West of the Jordan valley,
and therefore does not separate Palestine from Israel,
but serves only to seal the Palestinian Ghetto.
Click here or on map of the Wall, for a large, printable version.
The wall has no political context whatsoever?
Even a brief comparison between Ehud
Barak's "Generous Offers"
and Sharon's "Separation Plan" shows that essentially
they are one and the same.
They are both based on the same colonizing logic
that later produced the route of the "Separation Wall",
a route which has Ehud Barak's wholehearted support.
The principle behind both plans is the same:
"Annex the maximum land with the minimum Palestinians"
In order to accomplish this, the Palestinian people must be beaten
into submission, their spirit and national will broken.
The way to this end passes through further "security measures".
Hundreds of roadblocks scattered throughout the West Bank,
preventing the Palestinians from leading any kind of a normal life.
Frequent curfews, demolitions and movement restrictions
driving an entire people to the verge of starvation.
The Israeli government seems to expect
the presence of a starved, desperate, imprisoned neighbor
to pave the way to a prosperous, healthy Israel.
Will the Israeli public accept every atrocity
or crime against humanity,
provided only that it is presented as a "security measure"?
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