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Jim Franklin

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Palestinians break Israel's wall - 0 views

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Israel separation wall Berlin wall

shared by Jim Franklin on 09 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • Palestinians and foreign activists have torn down segments of Israel's separation wall in a demonstration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • group of masked activists using a lorry pulled down a two-metre cement block before Israeli security forces confronted them with tear gas grenades.
  • Last Friday, Palestinian youths almost toppled a segment of wall using a hydraulic car-jack in the West Bank village of Nilin.
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  • The wall is up to 8m high in places, twice the height of the former Berlin wall. Palestinian sources anticipate that it may be more than 750km-long when construction is finished, more than four times the length of the Berlin wall.
Michael Fisher

Mubarak to build Egypt's Berlin Wall at 3arabawy - 0 views

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Gaza Egypt U.S. Army 3arabawy

shared by Michael Fisher on 10 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels
  • The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers
  • Michael Fisher on 10 Dec 09
     
    Egyptian and U.S. Army engineers are allegedly working together to build a wall separating Gaza and Egypt. TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMMENTS BELOW THE NEWS ARTICLE THIS BLOG LINKS TO.
Ed Webb

Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Israel Palestine israelpalestine borders land

shared by Ed Webb on 28 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • For those on the Palestinian side, the massive concrete wall, double the height of the Berlin Wall, symbolizes the violence of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 28 Aug 12
       
      Also of note: the barrier does not follow any legally recognized border, but arguably creates a de facto one.
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