7,
March 2004 Response
to local letter writer RE: Israel
Sheree
Roth (PA Daily Thursday March 4), Rachel Reznichenko and David Meir-Levi (Daily
March 7) all seem to be troubled that the cruel, sadistic policies of the
Israeli government are finally receiving much needed media attention. If indeed
the wall is needed to protect Israel from suicide bombers, then why not
construct the wall on the Israeli side of the border? A Power Point
presentation given at Stanford yesterday by Dr. Barghouti, exposes the myth
that the wall is being constructed for security purposes. It shows the wall
meandering deep inside Palestine, expropriating huge swaths of land and
isolating whole villages.
According
to the U.N., the partially constructed fence already puts 16% of the West Bank
and 13,000 Palestinians on the Israeli side! A startling new fact emerged from
Barghouti’s presentation. Israeli is now planning to build an eastern wall to
further hem in the Palestinians. Compounding the suffering, is the Israeli
checkpoints through which Palestinians must pass. These checkpoints have been
strategically located to protect illegal Israeli settlements. Strip searches,
denial of health services and myriad of other indignities have been heaped on
the civilian population at these checkpoints.
I sincerely hope the International Court will censure Israel and focus
more world attention on the sad plight of the Palestinians.
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