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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,1137685,00.html
A Fence Built for Peace
(Guardian-UK) Silvan Shalom - The International Court of Justice must reject this attempt to exploit its mandate for political objectives and instead protect the legitimacy and propriety of the institution and the goals of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The request violated the UN's own rules of procedure and separation of responsibilities. The risk, beyond considerable damage to the peace process, is that "success" will lead to other dangerous political questions being posed to the court - on Iraq, Kashmir, or Chechnya, for example. Silvan Shalom is Israel's foreign minister and deputy prime minister.