Wednesday, October 11, 2006

I-15 Israels hidden agenda ...... ethnic cleansing



U.N. notes increase in Israel roadblocks http://www.examiner.com/a-337990~U_N__Notes_Increase_in_Israel_Roadblocks.html

... JERUSALEM -
Israel's network of military checkpoints and road barriers in the West Bank has grown by 40 percent in the past year, from 376 in August 2005 to 528 in September of this year. It's part of an increasingly sophisticated system of controls that disrupts all aspects of Palestinian life, a U.N. agency said Wednesday...... "It cannot continue like it is now without a social explosion that will hurt everybody, including Israeli security," said Jan Egeland, the U.N. humanitarian chief.......

Israel is also pushing ahead with the construction of its separation barrier along, and in many areas inside the West Bank. The barrier eventually will run for 437 miles; 252 miles have been completed, including 27 miles in the past five months, Shearer said.......

Some 50,000 Palestinians have found themselves on the wrong side of the barrier, meaning they are separated from the rest of the West Bank, Shearer said....."We are seeing a continuing closing down, locking down of Palestinian areas," he said....

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