*Ø* Australia, US, support Apartheid Wall

[It's not a fence, as the media insist on calling it. It is taller and thicker than the Berlin Wall and much longer by far. And it's not a security barrier. It's an old-fashioned land grab.]

"The Federal Government says Australia has good reasons for voting against a United Nations resolution demanding Israel comply with a ruling to dismantle its West Bank barrier.

"The vote was passed with the support of 150 nations but Australia was one of six countries to oppose the resolution, along with Israel and the United States."
Source: ABC (Oz) News

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The West Bank will lose an area the size of Rhode Island due to the path of the Wall.

Those 600,000 acres are equivalent to all of the crop land in Pennsylvania!
Source: American Task Force on Palestine

"The construction of the Israeli separation wall began on the 16th June 2002. For the most part the barrier, which could eventually extend over 750km, consists of a series of 25 foot high concrete walls, trenches, barbed wire and electrified fencing with numerous watch towers, electronic sensors, thermal imaging and video cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, sniper towers, and roads for patrol vehicles.

"The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign’s most recent map of the Wall’s path, finalized November 2003, reveals that if completed in its entirety, nearly 50% of the West Bank population will be affected by the Wall through loss of land, imprisonment into ghettos, or isolation into Israeli de facto annexed areas."
Palestine Monitor Fact Sheet

In total the Wall will run over 650 km (400 miles) inside the West Bank.
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