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Chief Justice: Separation fence "political purpose" irrelevant
By: israelinsider staff and partners   
Published: June 21, 2005   
 
The State Prosecution argued for the first time on Tuesday that the Jerusalem area separation fence serves political, as well as security purposes.

Chief justice Aharon Barak said that the state had the right to erect a security fence along Jerusalem's municipal border, and the question whether its construction in the capital is security or politically motivated was therefore irrelevant.

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State: J'lem security fence also politically motivated  - (Haaretz)  06.21.2005
 
 

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