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Sharon Defiant as Criticism of Security Barrier Increases
(Los Angeles Times) - The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacted defiantly to a UN General Assembly vote Monday asking the International Court of Justice to rule on the legality of a barrier that Israel is building around the West Bank. Uzi Dayan, the head of an Israeli governmental body overseeing construction of the barrier, defended it as a "necessary project in order to give security against terror." "It isn't a wall which separates two peoples who want democracy; it's a wall which separates terrorists from the people they want to murder," he said. "It's a classic piece of moral relativism," said Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN who is now a senior advisor to Sharon. "What the UN did was condemn Israel without even a nod toward the need to fight the terror that has killed so many Israeli civilians."