Posted on 06/23/2002 6:17:15 AM PDT by Israel Insider
In its most recent impotent attempt to put an end to the suicidal butchery arriving from the Palestinian territories, the Israeli government has proposed a fence that would run from the Salem checkpoint in the north to Kafr Qasem in the south, while another stretch of fence would run through the Jerusalem area. The planned length of the entire fence is around 115 kilometers, and it will cost around $1 million per kilometer. There has already been impassioned disagreement over how advantageous such a fence would be, considering it seemingly abandons Jews on the wrong side of the Green Line, but psychologically it unmistakably demonstrates what Israelis urgently desire and deserve: absolute separation from Arabs.
The poet Robert Frost once said that good fences make good neighbors. But please forgive Israelis if their attention isn't fixated on neighborly pursuits anymore. Rummaging through debris to recover the limbs and charred bodies of their slaughtered children, the latest victims of two suicide attacks in Jerusalem this past week, Israelis have a feeling of helplessness and anger.
How about the Jordan River?
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