I don't like the wall. Walls and fences are barriers to people interacting. I would like to see people interacting peacefully. But the suicide bombers of the West Bank have made that impossible. So Israel has built a wall/fence. It is there to stop the violence and stop the killing. Apparently it is working. This has reduced the need for many of the roadblocks and checkpoints that have been so vigorously opposed by lots of local activists.
Here is the IDF report on the removal of those checkpoints. It doesn't mention the role played by Israel's security barrier and anti-sniper wall, but statistics show the barrier and the IDF policy of targeting terrorist leaders has brought about a steep decline in the number of attacks on Israelis civilians. Less attacks mean less death. That's a good thing, right?

Irish American political activist Ken O'Keefe is on hunger strike in an Israeli jail whilst fighting deportation after being arrested for attempting to enter Gaza on Thursday. Last year, the former US Marine and Gulf War veteran returned to Iraq with more than 500 Human Shields. After entering Gaza via a settlement, he was detained by 10 Israeli soldiers whilst walking along the beach into the Palestinian area.

This article, originally published in the Harvard Crimson on June 10, 2004 reports on a protest of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's inaction on the human rights catastrophe developing in Sudan. Slavery, starvation, and genocide are occurring as the Arab/totalitarian military in the north is brutally enslaving and killing the mostly Black African Christians in the south. With some estimating that without worldwide intervention, as many as 500,000 people will die in the next three months, the UN secretary-general's silence means certain death.

Though it's often thought-of differently, it's still Murder to deny an Elderly Patient Indicated and Available Substances......The Real Communist Attack Strategy......EVEN-WORSE THAN PRESIDENT REAGAN, IS...Prohibitionism......

...Bolster Bush Re-Election Bid~ Interview with Rahul Mahajan, author and commentator, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris