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Israeli, Foreign Activists Protest "Unilateral" Borders
BILIN, West Bank, April 2, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Israeli Jews and foreign peace activists joined Palestinians on Sunday, April 2, to protest plans to turn the West Bank separation wall into Israel's eastern border as part of an overall scheme to unilaterally fix Israel's boundaries by 2010, saying it was reminiscent of the 1948 forced expulsion of Palestinians from their motherland.
"The only solution is two-state, but not like this," Louise, 26, from Tel Aviv, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"We want the 1967 borders, not to grab land. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
"We'll pay for what we're doing to these poor people in the future. This has nothing to do with security."
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud, whose nascent Kadima party won a narrow majority in last week's parliamentary elections, has vowed to finalize Israel's borders by the end of his mandate in 2010.
"Olmert means there will be no peace in this land," said Palestinian demonstrator Yusuf Karaja.
The United Nations warned on Thursday, March 30, that Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders without consultations with the Palestinians would undermine efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.
The same day, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled the possibility of supporting Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders without consultations with the Palestinians.
Repeat of History
Palestinian Waji said history repeats itself.
"It's like (the establishment of Israel in) 1948, they expelled Palestinians and demolished our villages. Now they're doing it again," he told AFP, pointing at the rapidly constructed concrete wall.
Once completed, the 670-kilometre (415-mile) wall, a mix of concrete, steel and razor wire, will effectively confiscate eight to 10 percent of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied east Jerusalem).
The Hague-based International Court of Justice declared all parts of the barrier beyond the Green Line illegal under international human rights law, but its 2004 verdict is non-binding and has been spurned by Israel.
"The Israelis plan something, we plan something, but it's always different," fumed Waji.
"We plan to live together but they plan how to expel us and how to build settlements on our land."
Karaja was more pessimistic.
"I don't know what we can do but we refuse his way. They are killing us without shooting, by lack of food, lack of work, lack of services."
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http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-04/02/article01.shtml
"We want the 1967 borders, not to grab land. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
"We'll pay for what we're doing to these poor people in the future. This has nothing to do with security."
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud, whose nascent Kadima party won a narrow majority in last week's parliamentary elections, has vowed to finalize Israel's borders by the end of his mandate in 2010.
"Olmert means there will be no peace in this land," said Palestinian demonstrator Yusuf Karaja.
The United Nations warned on Thursday, March 30, that Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders without consultations with the Palestinians would undermine efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.
The same day, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signaled the possibility of supporting Israel's unilateral moves to fix borders without consultations with the Palestinians.
Repeat of History
Palestinian Waji said history repeats itself.
"It's like (the establishment of Israel in) 1948, they expelled Palestinians and demolished our villages. Now they're doing it again," he told AFP, pointing at the rapidly constructed concrete wall.
Once completed, the 670-kilometre (415-mile) wall, a mix of concrete, steel and razor wire, will effectively confiscate eight to 10 percent of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and Al-Quds (occupied east Jerusalem).
The Hague-based International Court of Justice declared all parts of the barrier beyond the Green Line illegal under international human rights law, but its 2004 verdict is non-binding and has been spurned by Israel.
"The Israelis plan something, we plan something, but it's always different," fumed Waji.
"We plan to live together but they plan how to expel us and how to build settlements on our land."
Karaja was more pessimistic.
"I don't know what we can do but we refuse his way. They are killing us without shooting, by lack of food, lack of work, lack of services."
More
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2006-04/02/article01.shtml
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