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Titolo: Three Lies About the 'Separation Fence'

An outcome too terrible to imagine
By Yigal Bronner
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/340979.html
Ha'aretz September 17, 2003
The morning after the horrific suicide bombing at Cafe
Hillel in Jerusalem, Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
was asked on the radio whether this was the right time
to cut the defense budget. Netanyahu reiterated his
promise that the funds earmarked for what is known as
the separation fence will not be reduced and will even
be pumped in faster to accelerate its construction. This
will be done in order to guarantee the security of
Israeli civilians. It never occurred to the radio host
to ask whether the fence would, indeed, guarantee
security. As in other areas, the escalating violence and
heated emotions rule out any alternative views.
One of the most dramatic geo-political changes in the
history of the region is taking place at record speed
and without any public debate. Before it becomes too
late, we must take time out to look through the veil of
lies about the fence.
The first lie is in the title. The so-called separation
fence promises the worn-out and worried public that the
Palestinians, and all the troubles that contact with
them entails, will be tucked safely behind the fence. We
are on one side, they are on the other, and that's that.
The alignment of the fence will, in reality, annex much
of the West Bank to Israel. Hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians will still be living west of the fence, on
the Israeli side. Thousands of settlers will be living
east of it. Call it what you will - separation it ain't.
The second lie is that this fence marks a border, and
that the Palestinian State that Sharon speaks of will be
established east of it. This is not one fence, but at
least two sets of walls. And while one of them, the
western one, will steal as much Palestinian land as
possible along the Green Line, the other one, the
eastern one, will be annexing remote settlements.
Several other obstacles, including fences and ditches,
will be created between the two walls. This system will
turn the populated areas of the West Bank into
uncontiguous pens.
Take Jerusalem, for example. The wall that is currently
being built there is not on the line separating the
Palestinian neighborhoods from the Jewish ones. Instead,
it crosses through all the Palestinian areas in town and
will be annexing more than 100,000 Palestinians to
Israel. Moreover, the hundreds of thousands who will be
left outside the wall will not only be barred from
entering the city, making their living there, going to
school and getting medical care, but they will not be
able to get such services from cities to the east -
since from the east they will be surrounded by the walls
and roads that will be built around Ma'aleh Adumim,
Pisgat Zeev, Nokdim and Tekoa.
One can hardly imagine the scope of humanitarian
problems that these walls on the east side of the
Jerusalem metropolitan area will create as they slash
the region into an intricate system of unconnected
compounds. But the promise of security that the fence
carries with it turns the Israeli ear deaf to any
humanitarian arguments.
And the third lie about the wall, again through the
Jerusalem prism: East Jerusalem was the calmest
Palestinian region during the current intifada. The wall
will divide families and streets and leave us with many
people who have nothing to lose. This is a giant barrel
of explosives.
Of course this is true of other areas, as well. And yes,
there are places - a few - where the fence will be built
along the Green Line and will not be annexing any
Palestinian population to Israel, as in the case of Tul
Karm and Qalqilyah. But anyone who believes that at
least there the fence will promise us quiet is deluding
themselves. Gaza is a fascinating case study for this
theory: it is so quiet there that the Israel Defense
Forces repeatedly asks for permission to invade and the
air force bombs the region time and time again. There is
no need to elaborate on the extent of security that the
fence around Gaza has given the residents of Sderot and
Ashkelon.
By manipulating the genuine concerns of Israeli
civilians, Sharon's cabinet is building a system of
fences that will not provide any separation, will not
create a border and will not guarantee security, either.
The purpose of these walls is entirely different: they
are designed to make it impossible to weaken the
stronghold that Israel has gained in the territories
occupied in 1967. Eighteen months from now, we will be
awakening to an entirely different reality. Ours will be
a brutal land of pens stretching between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean that will make South African
apartheid pale. The outcome is too terrible to even
imagine.
Dr. Bronner teaches at the department of East Asian
studies of Tel Aviv University.

An outcome too terrible to imagine
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