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tations on the entry of Palestinians
contrary to the stiff opposition led by
into Israel. This possibility is what the
then-Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir,
Palestinians fear most.
who called for separation. In his com-
"The present economic conditions
ments three weeks ago, Barak was
in the Palestinian Authority are worse
reviving the separation proposal put
than during the Israeli occupation,
forward by then-Public Security
and most Palestinians fear that things
Minister Moshe Shahal in 1996, fol-
will get worse," Hisham Awartani,
lowing a series of devastating terror
head of the economics department at
attacks in which suicide bonibers
Najah University in Nablus, said last
killed 59 Israelis and wounded some
220 others. The Shahal proposal called week during a lecture in Jerusalem.
Awartani cautioned against taking
for erecting a fence along Israel's
the
separation idea too far. "If they
approximately 190-mile future border
want
to separate and cooperate, why
with the West Bank, similar to the
not," he said. :Tut if they mean eco-
fence along its border with the Gaza
nomic divorce, it is suicide."
Strip.
In addition to creating "economic
It also called for some 15 to 18
suicide" for Palestinians, separation
checkpoints along the border, with
would create a major security problem
similar arrangements to be made
around Jerusalem. To
avoid infiltration,
border patrol units,
thermal detection
devices and recon-
naissance planes
would be employed
to prevent any unau-
thorized crossings.
The fence would
cost a projected
$300 million.
Three years ago, a
delegation of senior
Israeli police officials
visited the border
between the United
States and Mexico to
learn from the
American experi-
ence. Despite the
difficulties that U.S.
immigration officials
Will barbed wire separate Israelis and the Palestinians?
encounter, the
Israelis came back
with the conclusion
for Israel, he warned. "You cannot
'Israel could at least equal what the
have hungry neighbors, he said. But
United States is doing along a border
some Israeli experts claim that the eco-
that is 10 times longer.
nomic argument is invalid.
The separation concept is problem-
Dan Shueftan of Haifa University
atic for Israeli supporters of a "Greater
writes
in his soon-to-be-published
would
mean
that
Israel" because it
book, The Necessity of Separation, that
Israel has accepted the 1967 borders.
any improvement in the standard of
This reason is why former Prime
living in the territories would not nec-
Minister Binya.min Netanyahu said his
essarily diminish the level of
government would not follow the sep-
Palestinian violence against Israel.
aration concept of the previous Labor
Shueftan quoted figures showing
administration.
that Palestinian violence increased
"I foresee a settlement in which
even in those .);e47s. when the
there are two living entities that are
Palestinian economy was showing a
integrated with one another," he said,
marked improvement over earlier
dismissing the separation idea.
years.
Shueftan further argued that
However, following a number of
Palestinian
radicals -lffe'riot economi-
terrorist attacks against Israel,
cally
motivated.
Because a quick solu-
Netanyahu changed his mind. He
tion of the Arab-Israeli conflict is not
instructed the defense establishment
In sight,, he concluded, Israel must
to prepare blueprints for a physical
Al'ategv. of total separation.
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sepafation
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