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Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-makovsky24feb24,1,4491312.story
A Fence That Makes Sense
(Los Angeles Times) David Makovsky - Israel has approximately 170,000 people living in the 14.5% of the West Bank between the fence and the Green Line. In contrast, there are just 11,000 West Bank Palestinians in this area who will not have direct access to other parts of the West Bank. Are there hardships for those Palestinians? Yes, but they can be minimized by an array of actions now being undertaken, like Israel busing Palestinian kids to school or building new roads. And we shouldn't forget that the 170,000 Israelis living there also face a hardship: the prospect of being blown up. The writer is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.