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Source: http://nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/babbin/babbin200401190807.asp
The "Green Line" Has No Legal Standing
(National Review) Jed Babbin - The Israeli antiterror "fence" is an ugly necessity, meant to stop people from entering Israel to murder its citizens. The UN General Assembly - which resembles the Mad Hatter's tea party more than a serious international organization working for peace - has asked the International Court of Justice for an "advisory opinion" on the legality of the fence. The question will revolve around the issue of the "green line" - the ceasefire line from the previous Arab-Israeli wars that has no legal standing whatever. It's not a border, not a division of land by treaty or otherwise. But the Palestinians - and their supporters in the UN - want it to be one. The ICJ action will try to establish it as a legal border, although both sides - Israelis and Palestinians alike - have never agreed it to be one.