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To: sammy levy who wrote (5224)	12/5/2003 2:33:17 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 6945

SEPARATION - BETWEEN WHO? "In the beginning, when people talked about a "separation fence", they meant a security fence. As Ehud Barak announced at the time: "We shall be here and they shall be there." This has turned into a blatant lie. The fence that is being built now is not intended to separate between Israelis and Palestinians, but between Palestinians and Palestinians. To cut the Palestinian territory into ribbons. To confine the Palestinians in isolated pockets. A glaring example is the double wall now being built around the town of a-Ram, north of Jerusalem. It has 60 thousand inhabitants, of which 40 thousand have Jerusalem IDs and Israeli license plates on their cars. But the double wall will cut the town off, both from Jerusalem and the West Bank. Only one single way out of this pocket will remain: the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Normal life will become impossible, commercial life will be destroyed, pupils will have to get up at 5 am in order to reach their schools in adjoining neighborhoods on the other side of the wall. Sick people and pregnant women will be on the road for hours before they reach their hospitals in Jerusalem or Ramallah - if they get there at all. A determined Israeli-Palestinian campaign will be waged against this monster. Building has not yet started. The disaster can still be avoided!" stopthewall.org stopthewall.us