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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0905/p01s03-wome.html
Israel's Vision: An Unbreachable Wall Against Terror
(Christian Science Monitor) Nicole Gaouette - Before his trip home to Brooklyn, young American Zvi Weiss visited the Western Wall for one last night of prayer. He remembers seeing three tired children sitting beside him on the bus, their mother squeezing her way to the back, then the light-obliterating roar. Mr. Weiss survived, but 22 men, women, and children riding the bus home did not. "Even on the [political] left, most people say give the Palestinians some territories, but we want a cordon sanitaire, a wall a mile high, a moat with sharks in it, just keep them and us separate," says Judith Baumel, a professor of modern Jewish history at Haifa University. "As long as you have a Palestinian mother who says my first son was a martyr [who died killing Israelis] and insha'llah the other nine will be too, then Israelis will feel deep anxiety," says Baumel.