JERUSALEM-
Vice Premier Ehud Olmert said.
Israel says the wall is needed to keep suicide bombers out of the country. The Palestinians say Israel is using the barrier as a pretext to take Palestinian land.
In Jerusalem, Israel- we didn- Hanegbi told Israel Radio.
The General Assembly-
Olmert said.
In return for EU support, the Palestinians and their supporters agreed to drop a second resolution that would have asked the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands, for an advisory opinion on the legality of the barrier.
The backers of the resolution also agreed to add a condemnation of Palestinian suicide bombings, Israel's targeted killings of Palestinian militants and the Oct. 16 bomb attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip that killed three American security guards.
Asked if Israel would stop building the barrier, Olmert laughed and said, You have a sense of humor.
We have to worry about Israel-
automatic majority... who has always acted against Israel
Olmert said.
If the whole world is on one side
and America and Israel on the other side
I-
he added.
Israel began building the barrier last year after waves of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed hundreds of people in Israel. Attackers had infiltrated easily across the unmarked and almost undefended border.
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