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Next to the "Fence" by Victor Is. Eliezer*, a conversation with Danny Tirza, Commander of the unit that built the "Fence" which separates Israel from the Palestinian Authority territories |
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Monday, 17 December 2018 11:51 |
![]() The way to the "Fence"
It was there when I met Yasser Arafat at first. He came to embrace me, as he usually did: “No kissing, but working together”, I told him and we started to chart maps. Ever since the Palestinians called me by a nickname, "Abu Harita" which means "the father of the maps", colonel Tirza assured. He described how these negotiations were blown to pieces: "We had concluded with the mapping. Barak conceded to Arafat 94% of the lands on the West bank, on the Jordan river, the whole of Gaza strip and gave him sovereignty on the Holly Mosques of Jerusalem. That was to say the totality of the lands Israel occupied during the 1967 war and were previously ruled by Jordan and Egypt. Clinton asked Arafat to sign. Arafat left for consultations and came back three hours later declaring that he could not sign without the approval of the other Arab states. Clinton blasted him and the big chance for peace was lost. In September 2000, everything changed as the intifada started".
The "Fence" Danny Tirza assumed the command of the fence construction unit. We walked alongside the fence. This is a wall made out of concrete, it has 45 centimeters of width and nine meters of height, on my left hand, just before passing Rachel's tomb. There are no live wires overhead but cameras and motion sensors along the whole fence, which is 726 kilometers long. Whenever someone attempts to cross it, a signal is immediately sent and the security forces rush to the point. In a distance of 5 meters, on the Israeli side a three meter high wire rail is extended, constituting an additional obstacle for anyone that could surmount the fence. Since 2007, when the fence's construction was concluded, 28 control and passing points for Palestinians willing to enter Israel were created, known as checkpoints. 120.000 Palestinians are passing every day through these points to Israel. Colonel Tirza strengthens that this fence does not bind the setting out of the borders between Israelis and Palestinians in the frame of a peace agreement. "The world has to understand that this is a fence for the protection of the Israeli citizens. From 2002 to 2007, 1562 Israeli citizens were victims of terrorist attacks. Since 2007, when the construction of the fence was concluded, till today we have had 39 victims from terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, I would like to be the first man to knock down the first wall of the fence, when the peace treaty will be signed".
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