MK Uri Ariel, the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu party\'s representative on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, spoke this afternoon about GSS-chief Avi Dichter\'s appearance there yesterday. Arutz-7\'s Ariel Kahane asked him, \"Did he in fact say that the GSS is in favor of a fence along the Green Line, as was reported?\" MK Ariel:
\"Not at all. Unfortunately, some MKs put their own \'spin\' on that which they leak from these meetings… What he said was that in some areas of Yesha, and not necessarily along the Green Line, there should be some barriers. This is not at all the same as [Labor MK Chaim] Ramon\'s Separation Plan, which involves a separation all along the 1967 Green Line and the dismantling of Yesha communities or putting them into settlement blocs. Dichter did not speak at all about the Green Line, but only about the necessity of barriers in certain spots, which in fact already exist in some places... but certainly not long walls along the length of entire boundaries.\" Ariel said that Dichter\'s reference to an \"effective fence in Gaza\" was an \"attempt to mislead, because the fence there runs along a boundary that is maybe 15 kilometers long, while in Yesha it would have to be about 600! ... Chaim Ramon himself knows that his separation plan is not feasible, and he\'s pushing it mainly as an elections ploy...\"
When asked about his party\'s position regarding a separation or barriers, Ariel said, \"I have always been against even the fencing-in of individual communities. We see in the Torah regarding the Ten Scouts, who were charged with finding out if the natives were in closed-in fortresses or in open camps - this was because if they closed themselves in, it meant that they were scared and vulnerable... We are not against every single physical barrier - for instance, every passing motorist can see that near Kfar Sava there\'s a fence-wall, and this is acceptable...\"
\"Not at all. Unfortunately, some MKs put their own \'spin\' on that which they leak from these meetings… What he said was that in some areas of Yesha, and not necessarily along the Green Line, there should be some barriers. This is not at all the same as [Labor MK Chaim] Ramon\'s Separation Plan, which involves a separation all along the 1967 Green Line and the dismantling of Yesha communities or putting them into settlement blocs. Dichter did not speak at all about the Green Line, but only about the necessity of barriers in certain spots, which in fact already exist in some places... but certainly not long walls along the length of entire boundaries.\" Ariel said that Dichter\'s reference to an \"effective fence in Gaza\" was an \"attempt to mislead, because the fence there runs along a boundary that is maybe 15 kilometers long, while in Yesha it would have to be about 600! ... Chaim Ramon himself knows that his separation plan is not feasible, and he\'s pushing it mainly as an elections ploy...\"
When asked about his party\'s position regarding a separation or barriers, Ariel said, \"I have always been against even the fencing-in of individual communities. We see in the Torah regarding the Ten Scouts, who were charged with finding out if the natives were in closed-in fortresses or in open camps - this was because if they closed themselves in, it meant that they were scared and vulnerable... We are not against every single physical barrier - for instance, every passing motorist can see that near Kfar Sava there\'s a fence-wall, and this is acceptable...\"