Israeli wall cutting into Jesus' birthplace

[dArKeR]

March 05 2004 at 02:12PM

By Mark Heinrich

Bethlehem - "We are being sealed off," Abu Salem said, watching his backyard vanish under a new Israeli wall that is to cut into the town where Jesus was born to safeguard Jews coming to pray at a biblical tomb.

Israeli army crews laid the first 100m this week of a towering barrier that will scoop part of Bethlehem into an enlarged security zone being carved out of occupied West Bank territory fringing Jerusalem.

The barrier is the latest spur in a swathe of fences and walls Israel says is meant to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers. Palestinians see a stratagem to annex land they want for a viable state under a stalled United States-backed peace plan.

In the Bethlehem area, the cement rampart will separate thousands of Palestinians from farmland as it twists and turns to take in Jewish settlements - a recurrent pattern elsewhere in the West Bank now under World Court scrutiny.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1078488722765B253&set_id=1

[madrchsod]

1. you can hear a pin drop

because of the silence of the "Christians" in the united states. the destruction of archaeological sites in the Palestinian areas have been widely condemned thru out the world. the Jewish archaeologists have made some headway in stopping the destruction but the idf does what it wants...

[JohnLocke]

3. Absurd.

Do you have any links at all to support your claim that Israel destroys archaeological sites? Or do you not need to back up your claims with facts?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Land grab

Let's continue to actively piss off the people who already have no rights and act surprised and shocked when they hate you. You can't steal someone's home and not expect them to fight back.