Officials from the Jewish Home party declared that they intend to fight the initiative of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to establish a barrier fence between Yatir and Arad in the southern Hevron region.

The officials said that such a fence whould remove Gush Etzion and the Judean Desert from Jewish hands and transfer them to Palestinian hands.

"Everyone knows that a fence creates a political and diplomatic reality," said the officials