Professors for a Strong Israel
Statement to the Press - 1 October 2003
Re: Back to the corridor, Arik?
Building the fence along the Green Line instead of around the terrorist centers makes it a political fence, rather than an instrument of security. But the idea of leaving Route 443 outside the fence is truly absurd. The Modi'in-Jerusalem road is the indispensable alternate to Route 1, the old main road that is both congested and dangerous. And Route 443 is also the planned route of the new high-speed rail connection between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It is inconceivable that Israel’s two main cities will once again be connected by a single road through a narrow corridor.
At Professors for a Strong Israel we ask the Prime Minister:
How long, Arik? How long will you continue this mad rush to shrink Israel and confine her to the "Auschwitz borders" of the Green Line, to the Procrustean bed of the Jerusalem corridor? Will you go back to the geographic nightmare of pre-1967, to the now-forgotten mentality of the city at the end of the road?
Back to the corridor, Arik?
Dr. Ron Breiman, Chairman of PSI
Tel: 050-518 940