{"id":135,"date":"2003-05-20T19:46:05","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T03:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/20\/israelpalestine-why-the-wall-isnt-about-peace\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T03:46:05","slug":"israelpalestine-why-the-wall-isnt-about-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Israel\/Palestine: Why the Wall isn&#039;t about peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is building a Separation Wall. They bulldozed Rachel Corrie to build this wall; they&#8217;ve destroyed countless Palestinian homes to build this wall.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s okay, we&#8217;re told, because the wall will bring peace and security. The wall will keep Palestinian terrorists out of Israel; don&#8217;t Israelis have the right to be safe? As for the farms and homes destroyed (none of which belong to Israelis), ya gotta break some eggs to make an omelet.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course. And that wall sounds like a reasonable proposition. But that wall &#8211; the wall for peace, the wall that would be built along the &#8220;green line&#8221; of 1967 &#8211; that ain&#8217;t the Wall Israel is building. Instead, Israel is building a Wall that nakedly grabs more territory for Israel. Everything bad you&#8217;ve heard about the settlements? The Wall is a hundred times worse.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two maps of Palestine\" src=\"http:\/\/amptoons.poliblog.com\/blog\/images\/map_palestine_wall.gif\" width=\"303\" height=\"366\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The blue areas are Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the map on the right. If you were Palestinian, is this a deal you could agree to? If you were a Palestinian leader, could you ever face your people after agreeing to this?<\/p>\n<p>If you were a Palestinian, wondering if the Israelis are prepared to negotiate in good faith, what would the map on the right tell you about Israel&#8217;s intentions?<\/p>\n<p>If you were an Israeli, would you propose this for a second if you were serious about peace?<\/p>\n<p>But Sharon has done more than proposed it &#8211; <i>he&#8217;s already begun building it<\/i>. It&#8217;s an impediment to peace a hundred times worse than the settlements &#8211; but no one is objecting. After all, the Wall is about peace, right?<\/p>\n<p>For details &#8211; including some more detailed maps &#8211; go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gush-shalom.org\/thewall\/index.html\">Gush Shalom&#8217;s <\/a>page on the wall. (Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtull-trauring.org\/aron\/IsraelBlog\/1053225651\/index_html\">Aron&#8217;s Israel Peace Blog<\/a>.)<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=deltasone-price-safeway\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is building a Separation Wall. They bulldozed Rachel Corrie to build this wall; they&#8217;ve destroyed countless Palestinian homes to build this wall. That&#8217;s okay, we&#8217;re told, because the wall will bring peace and security. The wall will keep Palestinian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}