(Ha'aretz) Meron Rapoport and Yuval Yoaz - The IDF began issuing land expropriation orders this weekend for construction of the separation fence around Ma'ale Adumim, a city east of Jerusalem with a population of 30,000. The U.S. argues that a fence around the city would impede territorial contiguity between the southern and northern West Bank. However, Minister Haim Ramon (Labor) said this issue could be resolved if Israel simply built a new road connecting Bethlehem to Ramallah, thereby ensuring that the West Bank would not be cut in two.
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