SEPARARATION BARRIER

Israeli border police officers stand in a gap in a section of Israel’s separation barrier, in the west bank village of Abu Dis, in the outskirts of Jerusalem, Monday, May 22, 2006. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who is visiting the U.S. was to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday and with President George W. Bush the following day. The Israeli leader would like endorsement of his ambitious plan to draw his nation’s final borders with the Palestinians within two years by pulling tens of thousands of Israeli settlers out of large chunks of the West Bank.PHOTO BY Lior Mizrahi / BauBau