A new Israeli proposal on the security fence suggests an opening near Ariel, a large Jewish city in the West Bank. The Israeli prime minister’s bureau chief, Dov Weisglass, is in Washington for discussions on the fence, which Israel is building to protect itself from terrorist infiltration from the West Bank. The Bush administration wants the fence to exclude Ariel, population 13,000, because it would take the fence 12 miles into the West Bank. The revised route proposes that the section of the fence between the Jewish settlements of Elkana and Alei Zahav not be built, leaving a “break” opposite Ariel, Ha’aretz reported. Weisglass and Amos Yaron, director-general of the Defense Ministry, will meet Monday with Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s national security adviser.
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