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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/opinion/07FRIE.html?8hpib
The Wailing Wall?
(New York Times) Thomas L. Friedman - If you want to understand why Israel is building a wall and fence around the West Bank to defend against suicide bombers, just hop on any bus in Jerusalem. You can't wait to get off. Israelis admit it. Suicide bombing of buses and cafes has made them crazy, and the wall-fence they are building is a concrete expression of all those primordial fears. "No one in Israel actually wanted the wall - the government didn't want it, the army didn't want it, the right didn't want it. It was imposed on the establishment by popular sentiment," says Ha'aretz writer Ari Shavit.