Security barrier is a cover for land-grab

THE actions of Ariel Sharon’s government in building Israel’s so-called ‘security barrier’ on the West Bank is nothing more that a cynical attempt to grab Palestinian land under the guise of Israeli national security.

The Israeli left originally proposed the concept of a security barrier along the Green Line between Israel and the Palestinian territories in the 1990s.

At the time, Ariel Sharon and the annexationists opposed the construction of a security barrier because they accepted that such a wall would mark the future border between Israel and a Palestinian state.