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Article: Israel sends mixed message on West Bank border
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 14, 2007
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KEDAR SETTLEMENT, West Bank -- First a sprawling police
headquarters went up, now bulldozers are leveling ground for a
highway, and by year's end Israel will have laid claim to another
strategic West Bank hill, taking one more chunk out of a future
Palestine even as Israel says it wants to negotiate its borders.
Israel has been tightening its hold on parts of the West Bank for
years, with mushrooming settlements and more recently, a separation
barrier. The barrier would eventually slice off 8.6 percent of the
territory and, according to U.N. data, incorporate 380,000 of
450,000 Israelis living on war-won land the Palestinians demand for
their state-to-be.
Israel's moves raise questions ...