Thursday, April 3, 2008 [Until Israelis are murdered]IDF says removed 10 West Bank roadblocks

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Israel Radio reports this evening that security
officials say the roadblocks will be returned if and when the Palestinians
manage to murder some Israelis thanks to the removed roadblocks.

Cynics say that if the Olmert team has apparently decided to let some
Israelis be murdered to please Secretary of State Rice, then it is hoped
that the attack takes place on a slow news day in the U.S. so that it gets
coverage.]

IDF says removed 10 West Bank roadblocks
Roadblocks near Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqiliya removed as gesture to Abbas.
'Removal of roadblocks will make it easier on terrorists to carry out
attacks,' says Israeli security official. Palestinians: Not one roadblock
removed
Efrat Weiss YNET and AP Published: 04.03.08, 21:57 / Israel News
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3527437,00.html

The IDF said in a statement Thursday that it took down 10 manned roadblocks
near the West Bank towns of Nablus, Tulkarem and Qalqiliya to ease
restrictions on the movement of Palestinians, in keeping with the
commitments Israel made to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her
visit to the region earlier this week. However, none of the points are major
crossings.

Israel promised Rice it would remove 50 roadblocks to ease restrictions on
Palestinians. Israel says the obstacles are needed to keep Palestinian
assailants out, but the Jewish state also wants to boost moderate
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by easing restrictions on his people, as
peace negotiations proceed.

"There is no doubt that the removal of the roadblocks will make it easier on
terrorists to carry out attacks and then escape back to the territories, but
the decision was made at government level," an Israeli security official
told Ynet.

Jericho checkpoints also removed

A Palestinian security official refuted the report, saying "not one
roadblock has been removed. Maybe the IDF removed roadblocks in its own
bases, but not in the Palestinian Authority and certainly not in the West
Bank."

On Monday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Israel removed two
checkpoints in Jericho in addition to evacuating the Rimonim checkpoint near
Ramallah. Yesha leaders claimed that the IDF's plan to remove the Modiin
roadblock in the Binyamin area, which is in the vicinity of Jerusalem, was
canceled after settlers said they would man the roadblock themselves if
needed.

The settlers said the Modiin roadblock was crucial, adding that in the past
an Israeli woman was killed because it had been removed.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said recently that Israel was not
living up to its commitment to freeze settlement construction and ease
Palestinian movement in the West Bank.

A report published last year by Peace Now stated that there are 93 manned
checkpoints throughout the West Bank, in addition to 467 roadblocks, such as
gates, ditches and sand mounds.

The question is do we as Jews deserve to have our own country if we are not willing to fight for it against the evil that is the Palestinians?