(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - Two substantial messages have been sent by the ruling of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The first is that Israel has no right to determine how it should defend itself against terror. The second is that Israelis are never seen as victims. To a great extent, the decision grants a kind of indirect support for the suicide bombers. There are dozens of fences in areas of conflict the world over, but only the Israeli fence, which was built as a desperate response to the terrorism of the suicide bombers, interests the ICJ.
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