RAMALLAH http://www.cheapnfljerseysbears.com/Tarik-Cohen/ , Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday in a press statement that the Israeli walls and fences will not make peace with Palestinians.
""It is bridges of peace that bring security to all,"" said the statement, which also warned of the consequences and implications of the annexation and ""colonialist walls mentality"" adopted by Israeli government as a policy to anchor the occupation.
The ministry's statement came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported a plan to surround ""the entire State of Israel with a fence"" to keep out refugees, drawing the analogy that the people of neighboring countries are like ""predators.""
Speaking during a tour to a construction site of the border fence with Jordan, Netanyahu reportedly said that he wishes to surround ""the country"" with fences and barriers ""to defend ourselves against wild beasts"" that surround Israel.
The ministry described Netanyahu's statements as ""discriminatory and seeking to deepen the notion of the external enemy in the Israeli consciousness http://www.cheapnfljerseysbears.com/Adam-Shaheen/ ,"" adding that it aims to draw more Israelis towards Netanyahu's right wing ideology which are based on extremism and justifying his anti-peace positions.
The ministry accused Israel of taking advantage of the deteriorating regional circumstances to isolate the Palestinian cause and impose security solutions unilaterally.
The statement also called on the international community to undertake its responsibility and slam Israel's ""intransigence and apartheid walls.""
The Israeli public radio reported Tuesday that the Israeli prime minister is preparing a multi-year plan to surround Israel with security fences to ""protect Israel in the Middle East as it is today.""
The plan includes close breaches made in the security barrier in the West Bank.
Netanyahu made the remarks as he toured the 30 km long eastern fence, still under construction, along the borders with Jordan. The eastern fence is designed to safeguard an airport built near Eilat, south of Israel, at a cost of 288 million shekels (about 74 million U.S. dollars).
Israel began constructing the wall with concrete walls http://www.cheapnfljerseysbears.com/Connor-Barth/ , fences and barbed-wire inside the occupied West Bank in 2002, claiming that the wall was crucial for its security purposes.
In 2004, the International Criminal Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion ruling that the wall constitutes a ""de facto annexation"" of Palestinians land and that it is not justified on security grounds.
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The music industry's top night turned into the big day for 34 couples on Sunday as Madonna and other stars presided over a mass wedding in a celebration of gay marriage.
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The 34 couples -- some same-sex, some opposite-sex and diverse in race and appearance -- exchanged rings before the Grammys stage at Los Angeles' Staples Center, which was momentarily transformed into a brightly lit church with a gospel choir.
The couples' wedding serenade was "Same Love," performed by hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
The Grammy-nominated song has been embraced by marriage equality campaigners as momentum builds in a growing number of countries and US states to allow same-sex partners to tie the knot.
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Sporting a white suit and cowboy hat, Madonna sang the high-energy chorus of her 1986 song "Open Your Heart."
The marriages were made official by Queen Latifah, who is authorized to perform weddings in California.
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"As elegant and as classy as the Grammy has ever been, is the moment when we... saw all those wonderful marriages and that same love," said Paul Williams, sharing a "message from the robots" who stood next to him in costume as they accepted the award.
The New York Times, which reported on the mass wedding shortly before the ceremony, said that the Grammys' producer, Ken Ehrlich http://www.cheapnfljerseysbears.com/Kyle-Long/ , approached Macklemore and Lewis about the idea after learning that the duo's concerts have generated on-stage marriage proposals.
A casting agency recruited couples, initially telling them only that the wedding would take place on live television and insisting that they sign confidentiality agreements so that they would not even tell their families, the newspaper said.
Ehrlich was quoted as saying that the couples stayed in aisles near the audience out of concern it would be seen as "exploitive" if they went on stage.
