Before the fence was built, premeditated acts of horror were perpetrated within Israel regularly. In 2002 alone, some 189 Israelis were massacred in 53 terror attacks. As the fence kept expanding, hostilities declined, until in 2009 they stood at zero. So these are the numbers. My conclusions, which are only premised on the data presented above, are simple: With a fence in place, there are no massacres. Without a fence, hundreds of civilians are massacred.Allow me to be generous and assume you are not a troll, but rather, ignorant of the facts.
The Wall that you defend represents a massive theft of Palestinian farmlands (some of the best), and more importantly, the majority of water resources in a desert land. It is group punishment and continuous torture of the Palestinians trapped in this arid detention camp.
To call it apartheid actually minimizes its horror, as no Bantustan was so sterile and unforgiving.
OK, so based on your response, the assertion in the article ( btw the quote that you attribute to me is actually a quote from the article) that the wall was constructed to protect Isarelis from terrorist attacks is not worth addressing. Maybe it's made-up or propaganda. Maybe the Wall hasn't reduced attacks. I don't know. Just askin. Seemed to me Smithee didn't want to address the point in the article and went off in a tangential rant instead