| Construction will continue in West Bank
JERUSALEM Israel said Wednesday that it would not stop building a security barrier in the West Bank despite a United Nations resolution demanding that the fence be torn down.
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A day after the resolution's approval, Israel's deputy prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said that the construction would continue. He told Israel Radio, "We have to worry about Israel's security, and it is clear that we will not act according to the instructions of a hostile, automatic majority" that "has always acted against Israel."
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The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, called the nonbinding UN resolution a victory for peace.
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"The world has just sent a powerful message that the shortest way to peace is not through settlements and walls, but rather through a meaningful peace process that will end the Israeli occupation that began in 1967," Erekat said.
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