Pretty much everything the critics say about Israel’s separation barrier is true. It causes incredible hardship to the Palestinians; it has been used in many places as a means of annexing Palestinian territory to Israel; and it has caused much environmental damage.
For all that, however, it has achieved its purpose. Since construction of the barrier [...]

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Check out my article on how the planned extension of the security barrier into the Judean Desert will affect the landscape and ecology there. Here’s an issue that Gershom and I differ on and I’ll write more about the issue here later this week.

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