Dutch gov’t warns company to stop work on W. Bank “fence”
Written by Haitham Sabbah on 09. July 2007, 1420hrs // Part of Haitham Sabbah's adventure in Good News, Israel // Other posts by Haitham Sabbah
Via Haaretz:
The Dutch foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, recently warned a construction company from the Rotterdam area to terminate its involvement in work on the separation fence in the West Bank.
“I expect Riwal to stop providing cranes for the wall. I hope this will be the last we hear of it,” Verhagen said in a media statement late last month, adding that “the government will keep a close watch” on the company’s actions.
The Dutch foreign ministry called the company’s work on the barrier “undesirable,” citing the 2004 ruling by the Hague-based International Court of Justice that the fence was illegal.
Is it a Fence?
Israel’s Separation Barrier, dubbed the “Apartheid Wall” or “Berlin Wall” by Palestinians, has increasingly attracted international media attention, largely due to the hard-to-ignore scale of the project.
The most obvious historical parallel to the barrier is the Berlin Wall, which was 96 miles long (155 kilometers). Israel’s barrier, still under construction, is expected to reach at least 403 miles in length (650 kilometers). The average height of the Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet (3.6 metres), compared with the maximum* current height of Israel’s Wall — 25 feet (8 metres).
[*it is not clear whether the shorter fence sections, about 6 meters in height, are first or final stages in Israel's construction of the barrier.]
Israel’s barrier is therefore planned to be four times as long and in places twice as high as the Berlin Wall. More details about the Apartheid Wall here.
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July 11th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
but this is the same minister who didnt want haniyeh to come to holland, cause they call him a terrorist…he didnt want to give a Visium to Haniyeh.