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Hamad warns construction of wall around Jerusalem 'dangerous'
Published Friday 06/07/2012 (updated) 07/07/2012 23:17
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israel's plans to resume building its separation wall around Jerusalem signal plans to complete the "judaization" of the holy city, a Fatah central committee member warned Thursday.

Amal Hamad said the move was Israel's "most dangerous action" since it occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.

"The role of the apartheid wall around Jerusalem is to facilitate the annexation of settlement blocs" Hamad said in a statement.

She said Palestinian factions must accelerate reconciliation as the only way to respond to Israeli violations.

At an Israeli court hearing on Thursday, the head of Israel's administration for building the wall Ofer Hindi said construction would resume around Gush Etzion in the coming weeks, after a five-year freeze, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. In 2013, building will resume around Maale Adumin, he added.

In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled Israel's wall illegal and said it should be dismantled. Israel started building the wall in 2002, citing security concerns, but its route does not follow the 1967 border and in places runs deep inside the West Bank.

Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of their promised state. Israel unilaterally annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, a move never recognized by the international community.
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1 ) Filipe / Portugal
06/07/2012 12:19
"but its route does not follow the 1967 border"--- The simple fact is there is no such thing as "the 1967 border" !!!
2 ) William Hague / UK
06/07/2012 13:44
How can you Judaiz a Jewish city?
3 ) This wall is against HAMAS / which will soon
06/07/2012 14:18
RULE THE WEST BANK (together with MURSI B'HOOD
4 ) Mel / USA
06/07/2012 15:39
Walls soon get torn down,especially illegal ones,round stolen landðnic concentration camps.But stranger than temporary "battlement" walls,is that Jews in Palestine,after being 'persecuted' for so long elsewhere,should allow politico-ideologically blind dinosaurs like violent ZIONISTS to be their spokesmen & "messiahs" who wall them in AGAIN,inside a Jewish camp surrounded by electric fences(on stolen land)? Jews have a pluralistic(albeit imperfect)world,yet they opt to be walled in byZionism!
5 ) @ William-2 / USA
06/07/2012 16:10
You are right, it is already a "Jewish city", and it has been so,
since the King David era, just like the Temple Mount, aka "Noble Sanctuary", is a Jewish site too, since the King Solomon era too !!

"Construction of wall around Jerusalem is NOT dangerous" to Muslims, but
- NO wall around Jerusalem, - NO Blockade of Gaza, and
- NO security fence every Israeli village IS Dangerous" to Jews,
as the countless from Islamic Terror Attacks have proven repeatedly !!!!
6 ) Ronald / USA
06/07/2012 17:24
Ah, it is all clear now... The wall will continue to go up and PA salaries will "somehow" continue to be paid. That is the bargin, no?
7 ) Paul / World
06/07/2012 17:41
Wow, Mel the settler living on stolen Red Indian lands comments.
Now I am really listening.
8 ) @ Ronald-6 / USA too
06/07/2012 18:17
You seem a bit clueless, since there is clerly NO connection
between the Wall (or Security Fence) and PA salaries, since:
1- the Security Fence is paid for solely from the State of Israel's defense budget, to provide for the security of Israeli citizens, and
2- the PA salaries are largely paid by international donation from the EU, USA, Arab states, IMF, etc., which PA leaders have frequently "augmented",
through the theft of donations, that were intended for other purposes !!!
9 ) Brian Cohen / Israel
06/07/2012 19:35
Easiest way to get the wall to come down = announce an end to suicide bombings, announce to the people that suicide bombers are not martyrs but war criminals, and go back to the negotiating table to sign a peace treaty and declare "Palestine". However, Palestinians pretend that international law does not apply to them and that slaughtering Israeli civilians is "resistance". It's not. suicide bombings and car bombings are war crimes. The fence will stay until the Palestinians stop the bombings.
10 ) ian / australia
07/07/2012 01:24
#2 "How can you Judaiz a Jewish city?" I don't know William but in the case of Jerusalem I suppose you would have to kick out all the Arabs, demolish all the mosques, raze the Haram and rebuild the Temple. That would make it "a Jewish city" of sorts I suppose though various less flattering descriptions spring to mind (like insane pariah state). Oh, and also get the ICJ to reverse its decision about East Jerusalem being occupied Palestinian territory and the settlements illegal.
11 ) Colin Wright / USA
07/07/2012 10:17
To Filipe #1 '"but its route does not follow the 1967 border"--- The simple fact is there is no such thing as "the 1967 border" !!!' Quite right. The only legal boundary remains the 1947 partition line -- which Israel accepted. Jerusalem to be under UN mandate and the rest to go to a Palestinian Arab state. Now would Israel finally abide by her commitment and withdraw to that boundary?
12 ) ian / australia
08/07/2012 04:27
#9 "The fence will stay until the Palestinians stop the bombings." Fact is Brian, Palestinian "violence" for some time now has been kids throwing rocks at checkpoints on Nakba (or Jerusalem) Day! The last suicide bombing was Dimona in 2008, four years ago and the last Hamas attack 2004: so when's the wall coming down? What's the waiting period? You argue like a Yeshiva student, kind of wily and aggressive, but we both know your "offer" is basically a lie. An end to violence or renaming
13 ) ian / australia
08/07/2012 04:28
(contd.) the martyrs criminals would be reciprocated with nothing. "Palestine" created at the "negotiating table" is another lie given the latest truth bomb from Bibi that the Haram al-Sharif, the Dome of the Rock and Aqsa mosque won't be part of it! And you can't have it both ways regarding "international law": if Palestinian bombings are "war crimes" and not "resistance", then so to are savage, disproportionate retaliatory strikes by Israel, and not remotely "self defense". And if you invoke
14 ) ian / australia
18/07/2012 15:13
(contd.) international law, surely it ALL applies (Nuremberg, Geneva, ICJ rulings etc.) not just selective bits that Hamas are in breach of!
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