Nothing, including US cuts in loan guarantees, will stop Israel from completing a controversial barrier around the West Bank, the head of Israel's delegation to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Dubai told AFP Tuesday.
"We have the intention to build the fence as fast as possible to protect ourselves, and I hope that the United States would not punish us for that," said Meir Sheetrit, minister without portfolio at the finance ministry, who arrived in Dubai on Monday with a 40-member delegation.
US national security adviser Condeleezza Rice said Monday after meeting Israeli officials in Washington that the barrier -- which US President George W. Bush has described as "a problem" -- was not "consistent" with the United States' view of the Middle East.
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