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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31912-2003Aug7.html
Stuck on a Barrier that's Not on the Road Map
(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - Scarring the land with any barrier is so painful to Israelis that for years they resisted the idea, until they could no longer in good conscience refrain from taking the one step that could prevent Palestinian suicide bombers from sneaking into Israel to blow up innocents. In America, we build stretches of fence along the Mexican border to prevent foreigners from coming in to take jobs. It takes a lot of audacity to demand that Israel stop building a fence whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from coming in to commit mass murder. In America, barrier walls are built along highways to keep neighbors from being inconvenienced by the noise. In Israel, barrier walls are built along highways to prevent passengers from being killed by bullets. Yet the State Department wants to punish Israel with sanctions for building a defensive barrier designed to prevent motorists from being shot while traveling inside Israel itself - although there is nothing in the road map about the fence.