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September 17, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/340958.html

Sharon Delays Decision on Security Fence

(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn and Nathan Guttman - The threatened reduction in guarantees is likely to come out of future installments, since the first installment, $1.6 billion, was used to back a bond issue Tuesday in New York. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, a proponent of the fence encompassing the Ariel settlement bloc, agreed to a compromise, a three-kilometer "hole" that would be filled with troops to prevent terrorist infiltration while the fence continues to Jerusalem. Coalition whip Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar said Tuesday that if the fence goes up on the "green line" as the Americans insist, it would be "the biggest prize of all to Yasser Arafat."

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