High Court: State must explain why it won't move fence in Bil'in

[Tom Joad]

Comment:The placement of the wall has been the focus of a massive protests by Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals. This is because it will destroy this village (many think that is the reason for the placement of the fence at that location, to destroy yet another Palestinian village). It should be emphasized that this placement of the "Annexation Wall", deep inside Palestinian West Bank, takes more than abstact "real estate property", but actual income and livelihoods are lost.

Most of these protests have been nonviolent, while the military response has not been.
See http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en & http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/

It is the continuing policies of seperating Palestinians like this that make the results of last weeks elections in Palestine unsurprising. Fateh was unable to do anything to stop such blatant land theft, and the total dispossession of homes and crops, while at the same time talking of some kind of "peace" with Israel. The vast gulf between the talk and the reality on the ground led to massive discontent, and toward a new direction.

What must be done first and foremost is to end US military aid to Israel.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/678112.html

High Court: State must explain why it won't move separation fence in Bil'in

The High Court of Justice on Thursday ordered the state prosecutor to explain why Israel won't alter the route of the separation fence where it passes over land belonging to the West Bank Palestinian village of Bil'in.

The state was given three weeks to explain why the fence can't be moved west, toward the Upper Modi'in settlement, so that it won't pass over Bil'in agricultural lands.

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The fence separates the village of Bil'in from a large portion of its agricultural lands.