Balagan
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Gush Etzion Residents Deciding Whether to Fight Partition Wall
By Ezra HaLevi, INN
(The HC of Israel followed the lead of the GOI when it acknowledged that Israel held the territories in "beligerant occupation". Therefore the HC preferred the rights of the Arabs under occupation law. Had GOI been consistent since '67 that the UN is trustee under the original mandate and holds the land on trust for the Jews, an entirely different set of laws would have applied. Ted Belman)
Gush Etzion residents are deciding whether to continue to negotiate
with the authorities on the route of the Partition Wall, or to oppose
the wall's construction altogether.
Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, one of the region's first communities
reestablished after the Six-Day-War, announced last month that it
rejects the building of a wall around the Etzion Bloc and would
prefer it be built along the Green Line.
Now, the rest of Gush Etzion's communities must decide how to respond
to the most invasive and significant project in the region's history,
but with an astounding lack of information being provided to the
residents.
A meeting originally billed as a vote on the wall in the community of
Neve Daniel was downgraded to an informational meeting because of
pressure from the municipality Tuesday.
At the meeting, Chananya Nachlieli, a surveyor for the municipality
who has extensive first-hand knowledge of the topography of all of
Gush Etzion, presented maps and illustrative photographs
demonstrating the negative effects of the wall and its proposed
route: MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at December 1, 2005 07:50 AM
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Balagan
Gush Etzion Residents Deciding Whether to Fight Partition Wall
By Ezra HaLevi, INN
(The HC of Israel followed the lead of the GOI when it acknowledged that Israel held the territories in "beligerant occupation". Therefore the HC preferred the rights of the Arabs under occupation law. Had GOI been consistent since '67 that the UN is trustee under the original mandate and holds the land on trust for the Jews, an entirely different set of laws would have applied. Ted Belman)
Gush Etzion residents are deciding whether to continue to negotiate
with the authorities on the route of the Partition Wall, or to oppose
the wall's construction altogether.
Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, one of the region's first communities
reestablished after the Six-Day-War, announced last month that it
rejects the building of a wall around the Etzion Bloc and would
prefer it be built along the Green Line.
Now, the rest of Gush Etzion's communities must decide how to respond
to the most invasive and significant project in the region's history,
but with an astounding lack of information being provided to the
residents.
A meeting originally billed as a vote on the wall in the community of
Neve Daniel was downgraded to an informational meeting because of
pressure from the municipality Tuesday.
At the meeting, Chananya Nachlieli, a surveyor for the municipality
who has extensive first-hand knowledge of the topography of all of
Gush Etzion, presented maps and illustrative photographs
demonstrating the negative effects of the wall and its proposed
route: MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at December 1, 2005 07:50 AM