(National Post-Canada) Barry Rubin - The Palestinian leadership's main strategy is based on Israel's population being vulnerable to terrorism. Thus, Israel's most urgent strategic need today is the completion of a comprehensive security fence along the edge of the West Bank. Those opposing this project are denying Israel the most elementary right of defense for its citizens while ensuring that the current conflict will be longer and bloodier. Controversies about the precise route of the fence are a needless distraction from this urgent task. Any other country in the world faced with suicide bombers who could easily walk or be driven across what was actually an open border would build a barrier and no one would challenge that right.
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