Foreign Ministry releases 'bloody' bus movie
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
Photo: MFA
Graphic pictures of the latest terror attack that killed 10 is the best way to show why Israel needs a security fence to stop bombers, said the Foreign Ministry on Thursday, as it posted a video of victims being evacuated from the bombed out bus in Jerusalem on its web site.
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"The fence is Israel's response to terror," said Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in conversations with reporters and foreign leaders.
The boundaries of the security fence, which juts beyond the Green Line, is contested world wide and is due to be examined by International Court of Justice in February. Written arguments are due Friday.
Shalom said the Palestinians should stop using the international courts as a excuse to refrain from fighting terror.
"All those who criticize Israel for building the fence should take a good look at this morning's pictures from Jerusalem," said the Foreign Ministry on its web site.
"Israelis started their morning today having to face shocking pictures of dead commuters - victims of a yet another suicide bomber. The anti-terrorist fence could have prevented this massacre.
"The sheer absurdity cannot be ignored. While Palestinian terrorists continue to murder Israelis, the pro-Arab majority at the UN is forcing Israel into the dock at the International Court of Justice over the fence. Thus, the supporters of terrorism condemn the victims of terrorism for simply trying to protect themselves," the Foreign Ministry said.
Shalom told reporters he supported the line of the fence, plotted out with security officials.
He said the route should remain the same, even though it could be adapted here and there for humanitarian reasons.
Shalom said such adaptations would not be enough to assuage world opinion which appears to only want one thing; a fence that reflects the 1967 border.
"No one in the world will never accept any boundary other than 1967," he said.
Shalom has said in the past that Israel could move the fence, if the Palestinians stop terror, but did not define what that new route would look like.
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