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To: Machaon who wrote (2857)	5/7/2003 7:48:12 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

"Israeli-Palestinian action against insatiable Wall With the pretext of the settlers' security concerns, the Wall of Apartheid is being erected deep in the heart of the Palestinian territories. The Wall is being built on agricultural land confiscated from Palestinian villages. The dispossessed Palestinian peasants, caught in between the Wall and the 'green line' without any sources of income and livelihood, are being forced to leave their land. The Wall is not built in order to secure the safety of Israeli citizens but in order to gain hegemony and control over the water resources; for the sake of the de-facto annexation of the settlements to Israel; to bisect the Palestinian territories into small isolated enclaves void of territorial contiguity and viability, and in order to create a border zone 'clean' of Palestinians. Thousands of Palestinians have already left their homes because of lack of means to survive. On April 23, 2003, the bulldozers arrived to the village of Mas'ha, adjacent to the Israeli settlement Elkanah. Elkana is about 7 kilometers away from the green line, but the route of the fence, approved in the government meeting of June 24, was changed so that it will include Elkana in the Israeli side. The bulldozers have started to separate Mas'ha, in effect, from its only remaining source of livelihood after two and a half years of closure. 98% of the lands of Mas'ha will be placed in the Israeli side of the fence - between the fence and the green line, together with thousands of dunams of Bidia Sanniriya and other villages in the area. Along with the lands that will be cut off the villages, the fence disconnects the road from Jenin to Ramallah, a segment of which will now be in the Israeli side of the fence, thus establishing further the isolation of the Palestinian enclaves from each other. We say NO to the 'Silent Transfer'