“This sight turned my stomach and made me furious that in this day and age, we still have people advocating for genocide.”
The Gaza Palestinian who stabbed a woman in an Israeli farming town near the Egyptian border had breached an unguarded border fence.
Israel began construction of a barrier along its border with Egypt.
Israel claims that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has no jurisdiction to rule on the West Bank security barrier, but at the same time, the government is preparing detailed legal, security and diplomatic arguments and an intensive public relations campaign.
The government also announced this week that it may make significant changes in the fence\’s route, ahead of the Feb. 23 proceedings at The Hague.
About two miles northwest of Bethlehem, Israel\’s much-discussed security fence comes to an end — not with a bang but with a whimper.
Israelis attending the meeting later were quoted as backing the plan — as long as it is completed quickly.
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