A new IDF division was inaugurated this week: \"The Regional Command for the Seam Line.\" Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that the new command is responsible for the area adjacent to the Green Line, that which separates Judea and Samaria from the rest of Israel. The new command has already begun conducting patrols on both sides of the line.
Writing in HaTzofeh earlier this week, Huberman explained that the old-new idea of using the Green Line to separate between Jewish and Arab areas has already been tried in Gaza, but not with particularly positive results: \"Some say that the separation in Gaza is a successful implementation of this idea. But the fact is that the fence separating the sides is often breached, and Palestinians often manage to penetrate into Israel, sometimes by merely jumping over the fence. In many places, they have managed to break down portions of the fence, and the army is currently engaged - sometimes under fire - in repairing them... The fence has also become a focus of terrorist activity; about half of the 170 bombs that were placed since Rosh HaShanah explode along the border fence…\"
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is against building a fence along the Green Line. He told his Labor Party colleagues last night that such a border would, among other things, essentially forfeit the blood of the Jewish residents of Yesha who remain on the other side. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer responded that the lack of a fence would increase the casualties within pre-\'67 Israel.
Writing in HaTzofeh earlier this week, Huberman explained that the old-new idea of using the Green Line to separate between Jewish and Arab areas has already been tried in Gaza, but not with particularly positive results: \"Some say that the separation in Gaza is a successful implementation of this idea. But the fact is that the fence separating the sides is often breached, and Palestinians often manage to penetrate into Israel, sometimes by merely jumping over the fence. In many places, they have managed to break down portions of the fence, and the army is currently engaged - sometimes under fire - in repairing them... The fence has also become a focus of terrorist activity; about half of the 170 bombs that were placed since Rosh HaShanah explode along the border fence…\"
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is against building a fence along the Green Line. He told his Labor Party colleagues last night that such a border would, among other things, essentially forfeit the blood of the Jewish residents of Yesha who remain on the other side. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer responded that the lack of a fence would increase the casualties within pre-\'67 Israel.