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November 6, 2013

Israel: Separation Wall the Border of Future Palestinian State 
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Israel has reportedly told the Palestinian Authority the separation wall
cutting through the occupied West Bank will serve as the border of their
future state. Palestinian officials have long sought a state within the
1967 borders, before Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza and East
Jerusalem. The International Court of Justice has previously declared
the route of the separation wall illegal for going beyond the 1967
borders to incorporate major Israeli settlement blocs. The Israeli
declaration of the separation wall as the future border comes just as
Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Israel to encourage ongoing
U.S.-brokered talks. Kerry spoke after visiting a memorial for Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Secretary of State John Kerry: "I come here without any illusions about
the difficulties. But I come here determined to work with leaders, with
the prime minister, with the president of the Palestinian Authority, to
try to find a way forward, so that Israel can live the dream that
President Peres and Prime Minister Rabin expressed so eloquently and
beautifully in the tragedy of that day here and in many days before
that. We will continue to work, and I can promise Israelis that America
will stand by the side of Israel every step of the way."

 

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