Friday, December 11, 2009 at 12:58PM Egypt Builds 6-Mile Wall Along Rafah Border
Egypt / Rafah border
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With American encouragement and financial support (to the tune of $23 million) and with the technical input of the US Corps of Engineers, Egypt has begun building a 6-mile long Wall along its border with Gaza.
According to news agency reports, this Wall will have a steel section, which would be impossible to penetrate, and will be sunk 20-30 meters below ground. The intention is to block all tunneling activities by Gazans aimed at creating links between Gaza and Egypt for the passage of their much needed daily food supplies. These underground links are considered a lifeline for the Gazans in the face of Israel's inhumane and illegal blockade of the Strip.
The Wall will reportedly take 18 months to build thus sealing the Gaza Strip completely. This shameful project must be condemned by the international community especially as the one-year anniversary of the criminal Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip approaches (27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009).
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So now we know why the US military engineers are there! At the time of the American Viva Palestina convoy, their presence was noted and people speculated on why they were there.
Now we know they are there to enable Israel to starve the Gazans into submission before ethnic cleansing them and then forcing them out of their own land. Israelis are already spewing out the odious fiction that Palestinians belong in Jordan.
At the Nakbah Palestians were told by the Zionists that the road to Jericho was open. Now Israel has stolen half the West Bank, they are encouraged to go to Jordan.
Remember that Jordan is regarded by Israel as being part of a future greater Israel, they call it Gilead. Will they never stop?
Viva Palestina!