Barrier in West Bank threatens residents' health care, says report

Joy Wolfe has pointed out many facts in a response that should be
mandatory reading for all those who read Deborah Cohen's article.

The security barrier has one purpose only: to save the lives of
Israeli citizens (Jews, Muslims and Christians). For 95% of its route, it
is a fence. Where the fence has been built, the number of attacks by
suicide (or should that be homicide) bombers has plummeted. The 5% of the
barrier that is a wall is to prevent any more shooting of Israelis by
Palestinian terrorists there. When the terrorism stops, the barrier can
and will be be dismantled.

As for hardship, the intifada has caused severe poverty and hunger
for large proportions of the residents of Gaza and the West Bank, Israel
and Jordan. No-one wins through the use of violence, except perhaps the
rulers of other Arab countries who, with shades of Orwell, fund both
education demonising Jews and terrorism to provide an external enemy to
distract their own citizens' attention from their lack of democracy and
other human rights.

Competing interests:
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