Jul 9 saw the International Court of Justice ruled in Hague that the separation wall put up by Israel on the western bank of the Jordan River went against the international law and violated the rights of the Palestine people. It requests that the Israeli authority has to demolish it while providing the Palestinians with economic compensation for the losses incurred during the putting up of the wall.

In regard of the verdict the two sides concerned have a total different reaction. The Israeli side refused to accept it while the Palestine expressed its welcome. What is worth our attention is that Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister turning a deaf ear to the verdict of the International Court of Justice, still gave the order to the military side, on Jul 11, to carry on the construction of the wall. He demanded that the US put a stop to the passing of a suchlike resolution at the UN Security Council.

It can be ascertained that even when the international community works out a final conclusion as to whether the separation wall put up by Israel is legitimate or not the dispute will come to continue.

The separation wall running a total of 700 kilometers in length and 100 meters in width built by Israel along the western bank of the Jordan River, was in name put up along the borderline before the Arab-Israeli War in 1967, but actually it has occupied a large piece of land from the Palestine. Especially, it has encircled in a great part of the land in Jerusalem, the Palestine Capital, separating forcibly a greater part of the land and hundreds of thousands Palestinians out from the Palestine area.

The project of the separation wall set off in June 2002 met with a popular reproach from the Palestine, other Arab states and the international community. However, it has got the "understanding" of the USA.

On Oct. 21 of last year, a resolution was passed at the UN special urgent meeting, demanding that Israel put a stop to the construction of the wall on the occupied Palestine territory. On Nov. 28, in the UN report on the Middle East Issues submitted by Anan, the UN secretary-general, he criticized that the putting up of the separation wall by Israel went against the relevant resolution of the UN conference. And in accordance with this the UN Conference as requested by the Palestine asked on Dec.8 the International Court of Justice in Hague to rule on the matter.

As the Sharon government explained, to build the separation wall is to "protect the Israeli people from the terrorist attack". Furthermore, according to the Israeli supposition about the Palestine State in future the severed and broken neighboring state "must neither has its own army nor own any heavy armament". And plus the blessing of the separation wall the safety of Israel can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

However, the international relations have to be governed by the law. The security of a country should not be made riding roughshod over the other, nor should that be done in a way in which the weak is bullied by the strong, taking the advantage to occupy the land of the Palestine and damage the rights of its people. In another point of view a gigantic building of several hundred kilometers long installed with electronic monitoring equipment and garrisoned by soldiers, though of some protective functions, is a token of using a neighbor's field for an outlet of its own overflow or rather a symbol of racial discrimination.

As told the historical lessons, anything for showing off a strong power will eventually be domed to ruin and extinction and only justice and the generally acknowledged truth can last for a long time to come. The review of the history shows that both the Jewish people and the Palestine people have ever suffered a great deal in the past. But today in which peace and development has become the main trend the parties concerned should take history as a mirror, not to fall again into the rut of incurring wars and riots.

If the parties engaged in the Middle East peace talks really want to realize the goal for their own safety and security the fundamental solution can only be achieved by way of peace talks. Why the peace process in the Middle East was led up a garden path lies in the breach of a cardinal principle of "using land to make an exchange for peace". Instead it has replaced the principle of "using land to make an exchange for peace" by pursuing for a partial benefit of "seeking security in exchange for peace".

In recent few years Israel, in the name of anti-terrorism has set on its "fixed point clearing away" on the one hand and on the other carried on its frequent suppression and wiping out. However, this hasn't brought any peace to Israel yet there sees no stopping to assaults and attacks at Israel. Along with the widening of hatred between the Palestine and Israel the cycling of resistance and suppression has become even more serious.

Facts tell us no high-handed measure and suppression will be able to bring about any peace, and only peace talks and amity with neighbors are the fundamental way out. Should Israel do not evacuate its troops out from the occupied land of the Palestine and of the Arab states as soon as possible but lay emphasis only on its own safety and security the ultimate outcome can only be otherwise than what it wishes for.

Article carried on People's Daily of July 13 and translated by People's Daily Online