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Titolo: Si può spostare il muro

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/386345.html
Il Ministro degli Esteri Silvan Shalom ha detto a Davos che in caso di
accordo con l'Autorità Palestinese si può spostare il Muro.
Mano al portafogli, ragazzi :-(((
Ciao.
Shalom says fence 'is moveable,' if deal reached with PA
 
By Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and
Agencies
 
 
 
Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Friday that the Palestinians should
return to the negotiating table because Israel is ready to make changes in
the controversial barrier built in the West Bank to prevent terror attacks.
"The fence is moveable," he said.
 
 
 
 
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Shalom said Israel had
pulled back similar fences on the borders with Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and
could do it again.
"If we reach agreement with the Palestinians and we agree with each other to
move the fence, it's moveable," said Shalom, who is attending the World
Economic Forum.
The barrier, which will ultimately stretch 650 kilometers, is one-third
complete and has become a major sticking point in efforts to restart
negotiations with the Palestinians who see it as an attempt by Israel to
draw a border without negotiations.
Shalom said he had informed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier Friday
of Israel's willingness to move the fence. But he also said that the barrier
- a complex of walls, barbed wire fences and guard towers - had been
successful in reducing terrorist attacks in Israel and should exist
throughout the negotiating process so that attacks could not be launched.
"The fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible," Shalom said.
Asked whether Israel would be willing to move the fence back to the border
before Israeli advances in the 1967 war, Shalom said, "We won't even need it
anymore. We don't like this fence. We didn't build the fence from 1967 to
2002."
He said that the Palestinians had made a precondition of making changes in
the fence before negotiations with Israel resumed but should move now to the
negotiating table to discuss the issue.
However, Palestinian officials said they wanted assurances - passed along
through the Americans - that they would come away from any new talks with
some progress on major issues, such as the fence.
Even without negotiations he said Israel was willing to take some steps. He
said Israel was ready now to dismantle settlement outposts that been
illegally built and to make new openings - even tunnels - so that
Palestinians could travel back and forth to jobs in Israel or to tend
Palestinian fields that have been cut off by the barrier.
"Israel would like to resume the negotiations immediately," Shalom said. "We
have been waiting for more than three months now for the first meeting to be
scheduled between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Abu Ala. But unfortunately
Abu Ala is not willing to schedule this first meeting, which we believe
would put the peace process on track."
Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), has complained bitterly
about the Israeli barrier and has demanded that Israel take it down.
However, he has not made that a precondition for a meeting with his Israeli
counterpart, Ariel Sharon.
Qureia has said he wants assurances from Sharon that a meeting will produce
some improvement in the lives of ordinary Palestinians. Such improvements
could include an easing of travel restrictions or an Israeli pullback from
some Palestinian cities, Qureia has said.
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