Israel 'will build a new wall'

Israel will determine its border with the West Bank in the absence of negotiations with the Palestinians – and then it will build a wall and move all settlers to the Israeli side, acting prime minister Ehud Olmert said today.

Mr Olmert said that if the Palestinians “prefer to be dragged into the axis of evil of Iran”, then Israel will change the path of its separation barrier in the West Bank according to national consensus and “Israelis will not live on the other side of the barrier”.