Exchange between Jerusalem Post journalist and a medialens reader (Joe S) Options

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Exchange with Sarah Honig (J-Post)
Posted by JoeS on October 20, 2009, 12:11 am

Hi Sarah,

If Israel's security fence was "erected to hamper suicide-bombers" (as you claim here: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...ticle/ShowFull), why was it not built on the Green Line?

Thanks,
Joe

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Topography, dear Joe, topography!

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So it's "topography" that explains why the wall encloses most of the major settlement blocs, the aquifers and the fertile land of the West Bank, right?

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Get a life, Joe - The wall mostly adheres to the Green Line, except where topography mades it impossibe. The settlers are OUTSIDE the wall! Getting your facts staright might be a wee bit of a help, you know.

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Thanks, Sarah. In fact, as you well know, only about 20 percent of the wall is on the Green Line - the rest cuts into the West Bank in order to annex major settlements and resources to Israel. The maps don't lie. And as for the settlers, here's an excerpt from the ICJ's ruling on the wall:

"The Court notes that the route of the wall as fixed by the Israeli Government includes within the “Closed Area” (i.e. the part of the West Bank lying between the Green Line and the wall) some 80 per cent of the settlers living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and has been traced in such away as to include within that area the great majority of the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (including East Jerusalem)."

http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1677.pdf (p10)

Case closed.