Israeli officials have long argued that they need to keep some occupied land for security reasons.
The British government of Tony Blair has signed up for the ban, but reserves the right to deploy land mines if it is essential for the security of Britain's armed forces--perfect common sense, I think.
Then too, the fact that the PA's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat published an article in The Guardian two weeks ago in which he implicitly called for Israel's destruction, one could be forgiven for thinking Ma'ariv's former opinion editor Ben Dror Yemini and Shaul Arieli from the EU-funded Council for Peace and Security might have attenuated their support for Israeli land giveaways.
About a tenth of it, so far, consists of an eight-metre-high concrete wall which in some places divides Palestinian communities, bars children from their former schools and cuts off farmers from their land, which continues to be confiscated for security and settlement-expansion.
In many places the barrier that Israel is building through the West Bank for security purposes (though in Palestinian eyes to grab more land) is monitored with all the care of an international border, while around Jerusalem the army turns a blind eye to hundreds of people who slip through cracks in the wall as part of their daily commute.
Netanyahu has made enforceable security guarantees the prerequisite for transferring an additional 13 percent of land in the West Bank to Palestinian control.
Though initially these occurrences may appear to be unimportant developments in a far off land, the outcome of this struggle for power in Pakistan will have direct implications on the national security of the United States.
Time and again Arabs point to UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 which call for Israel to withdraw from conquered Arab land.
Sarkozy himself all but accused Obama of living in Fantasy Land at the UN Security Council meeting four months ago, in light of Obama's support for global nuclear disarmament and his cavalier attitude towards Iran's nuclear program.
We also intend to mitigate the impact of binational disasters on communities by establishing procedures to manage land and maritime traffic in the event of a border area emergency, and enhance our collective preparedness for security threats of all types -- health, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive.
The Center for Security Policy urges that the Kyl-Pressler amendment swiftly be made the law of the land.
"Syria holds Israel and those who are protecting it at the Security Council responsible for the results of the attack and confirms its right to defend its land and sovereignty, " Syria said in a letter to the UN, reported by state media.
Moreover, Obama explained that Israel can no longer expect US support for its security if it doesn't bow to his demand that it surrender all of the land it has controlled since 1967.
Mr Netanyahu had explicitly rejected the land-for-peace principle that drove the process: his achievement, he claimed, would be to give Israel security without divesting it of land.
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