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06/17/2004:
"Israel Launches Gaza Moat Plan"
Reuters storyJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel set in motion a plan Thursday to dig a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border, inviting contractor bids for the project meant to prevent arms reaching Palestinian militants through tunnels.
The Defense Ministry published the bid notice 11 days after the cabinet approved in principle a Gaza withdrawal plan, under which Israel would keep a narrow corridor on the Egyptian frontier pending possible security arrangements with Cairo.
Inviting bids by July 12, the ministry said the southern Gaza Strip ``canal'' would be 50 feet to 80 feet deep and stretch 2.5 miles.
``This is the beginning of turning the Gaza Strip into a big prison,'' Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said, comparing the trench to the barrier Israel is constructing in the West Bank with the declared aim of stopping suicide bombers.
The notice, in Israeli newspapers, did not give the width of the canal -- a figure crucial to determining whether any Palestinian homes along the ``Philadelphi Corridor'' buffer zone adjacent to Rafah refugee camp would need to be demolished.
It was not clear whether the moat would be filled with water, as Israeli military sources had suggested last month, or would be dry...
Well I suggest filling it with crocodiles. It is uncanny how Israel reconstitutes the Jews' own history of persecution in its aggression against Palestine. First the fence, conjuring up the Warsaw Ghetto, and now the Medieval moat, hearkening back to feudal times or even earlier to the Crusades, when whole Jewish populations were wiped out. Now apparently they are the feudal lords.
