[peyton randolph]

"Whether it's a fence or a wall, I don't care as long as it works," said Ofer Shtayer, whose son and in-laws were murdered in a terrorist bombing in the city of Haifa in 2003.

Words to literally live by.

[Pro-Bush]

Good pictures, click on the link.

[dennisw]

Altered lives
A Palestinian walks through an unfinished portion of the wall at Abu Dis. The barricade being built along Israel’s border with the West Bank is changing the way of life for people on both sides of the fence.

Vigil
Palestinians gather outside the Church of the Nativity in Ramallah to protest Israel’s holding of prisoners and its expansion of the wall.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mik

 

 

Resentment
Omar Elbaz farms okra next to a 20-foot wall in Qalqilya. The wall has cut his farmland in half. “America is behind all this,” he says. “They give Israel the money, the guns, the tanks to steal our land.”
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

 

Trilingual alert
The sign in Hebrew, English and Arabic warns of “mortal dangers” along the barrier outside the Har Homa settlement in East Jerusalem.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

 

 

Dividing line
The barricade next to Palestinian homes in Abu Dis resembles a wall. In less-populated areas, it’s a fence.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

 

 

Border police
A Palestinian woman halts her progress along the wall at Abu Dis to allow an Israeli patrol to pass.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

 

Defaced
Palestinian women walk past the burned and paint-splattered watch tower near the Qalandia checkpoint in Ramallah.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

 

[Mo1]

The wall project has drawn criticism from European leaders,

If they are so damn concerned about the wall .. then do something about the suicide bombers and stop blaming and attacking Israel for it

[dennisw]

 Fenced in
Complex geography and politics have left Palestinian Hani Amer and his children — May, 7, Shadad, 5, and Isaac, 12 — encircled by Israel’s security barrier.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

Jan. 10, 2005

Sad separation
Ted Plavin, an Orthodox Jew, once shared electricity, a phone line and afternoon tea with his Palestinian neighbor, Hani Amer. Now he can only stare at Amer’s home, which is encircled by three fences, barbed wire and a 20-foot wall. “I can only shout through the fence,” says Plavin, an American-born banker who has lived in Israel since 1973.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

Worried
Hani Amer and his daughter, May, are frustrated at the odd circumstances that have left their house surrounded by the security barrier. He calls it a “cage,” and worries that one of his sons, who tries to climb the fence, might be shot by Israeli soldiers.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

Jan. 10, 2005

Hardly pastoral
In stead of traversing olive groves and open spaces that once surrounded the family home, Isaac Amer and his donkey are hemmed in by fences and security patrols.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

Jan. 10, 2005

Young artist’s view
Hani Amer’s son Isaac, 12, painted this picture of the family’s home, including the barbed wire that makes up part of the barrier surrounding their property.
(Sun-Sentinel/Mike Stocker)

Jan. 10, 2005

 

 

 

[Dallas59]

Boo Hoo...I'm all torn up about it. Poor Pals...can't seem to get a break.
(Sarcasm off)

[PJBlogger]

Benjamin Netanyahu, in a very good interview yesterday with Bill O'Reilly,said that since the fence wall went up,terrorist incidents are down 90%. He expects they will be down 98% when the wall is finished.

The French, and other "enlightened" Europeans had a hissy fot over the wall, and roundly condemned Israel, and of course, the US for supporting it.

[Harpo Speaks]

The pictures in this article are deceptive.

90% of the "wall" will not be a wall at all when it is completed...it will be a fence, just like the fence that separates the U.S. from Mexico. The 10% of the barrier that is made of concrete had to be that way because that's the places where snipers were picking off people and an open fence would not prevent that.

What percentage of pictures in this article show "fence" as opposed to "wall?" The article makes it looks likes 90% wall and 10% fence...the exact opposite of what it will be in reality.

[West Coast Conservative]

[Critical Bill]

I wonder why they built a wall?

[Rebelbase]

Stupid question: If Israel can do this with its Palestinian border, why can't we do this with the Mexican border?

[Red6]

Let's call it the "Friendship Wall". :)

All negotiations have failed. It’s the Palestinians who had SEVERAL opportunities to make peace and had a very lucrative compromise offered to them. But who can’t remember Arafat saying “NO” to an offer which was so sweet that the Israeli PM was killed because of it? They had 99.99% of what they (Palestinians) wanted and they said “NO”.

It IS clear which side is responsible here. The Palestinians can’t hold to their word even when they do agree to something. They are unwilling to make any compromises. It’s not the Israelis who “target” civilian populace in train stations, busses, schools, markets or airplanes.

After decades of promises, negotiations that have failed and outside mediators, observers, peacekeepers there has been NO resolution to this issue. The Israelis have given up hope to a solution. While they still pursue a solution politically, they MUST resort to such measures as this wall for the protection of their population. Comparing this to the Berlin wall is just another cheap ignorant out of context association intended to create a negative perception.

This wall is needed.

Red6

[JustDoItAlways]

The wall won't stop grenades, mortars, rockets, missiles, sniper bullets from hill-tops so in the long-run, the wall will only stop suicide bombers.

The Palestinians will just find another way to kill.

They will forever be lobbing grenades over the wall against each other.

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[rang1995]

a wall is not nice,it sucks, but killing is worse--attacks down 90% since wall---wall is nice,it's great..ball in the pals court!

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[lobo59]

It's the usual propaganda. Pictures of so called occupation, when it is the arabs who are illegaly squatting and occupying Israel's land in the west bank and Gaza. What is the truth? One picture purports to show so called palestinians out side the church of the Nativity (in Ramallah?). Maybe I missed something. The liars need to do better research, or learn that all Americans are not as stupid as moslems.