The top civil servants in Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office and Defense Ministry are traveling to Washington to discuss the future of the security buffer between Israeli and Palestinian cities.
Israel is concerned that the Bush Administration may have bought the Palestinian claim that Israel intends the buffer to become a permanent border.
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Israeli security officials have recently changed the proposed route of the buffer, seemingly to take American sensitivities into account.
The next phase of construction was to have included Ariel and other Jewish areas in Samaria, but the new proposal brings the buffer much closer to the Green Line, that demarcates pre-1967 Israel.