Together Against the Walls of
Annexation and Expropriation
Joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration
:: Saturday, April 26th 2003 ::
Quickly
and invisibly, a system of fences is being erected:
"The Wall of Separation", which has risen far and deep east of the
Green Line. The outline of this wall/fence was decided according to the
demands of the settlers. It constitutes an organized land robbery on a
grand scale, effectively annexing thousands of dunams of land from the
West Bank into Israel.
Around and inside Jerusalem a system of walls and fences are rising,
turning thousands of Palestinians to prisoners in their own homeland.
The region of Kalkilya is already walled in from all sides, and has
turned into an enclosed enclave. Around Tul-Karm an additional fence is
rising, caging thousands of Palestinians into inhabitants of a giant
enclosures, subject to the mercy of the occupation authorities.
These days work has started to mark the outline of a new fence, which
will annex to Israel the settlements of Ariel and Immanuel, and which
will turn thousands of Palestinians in the region of Salfit into
inhabitants of fenced enclaves.
While exploiting the anxieties and promising false promises of
security, the program of annexation and expropriation is moving ahead.
Should we accept it now, it will bring an end to the possibility of the
foundation of an independent Palestinian State alongside the State of
Israel. If we do not oppose it now, the West Bank will become a series
of isolated Palestinian enclaves, ruled by settlers and under military
control.
This is the future that Sharon is preparing for us: Apartheid.
True security should not be based upon expropriation and annexation,
upon starvation and imprisonment; rather, it should be based on peace
between equals. For there is no peace without justice. The barbed wires
are a death trap to us all, to the Palestinians and the Israelis.
On Saturday, April 26th
2003 we held a joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration
near the fence in Tul Karm area
Against the walls of annexation and
expropriation
For a life of peace and justice in this country!
