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To: aladin who wrote (108915)	7/30/2003 4:48:34 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Why did Israel build the fence?> If they were building the fence along the 1967 border, then I would say the fence was a defensive measure, to separate the populations, and defend Israelis from attacks. Let's use the correct words, though. Look up the definition of "fence", and look up some pictures of what the Israelis are actually building. It's not a fence. It's a wall, and then some. More like a Maginot Line, a set of fortifications, that includes an 8-meter-high solid concrete wall. But, if the Wall leaves the Palestinians with only 42% of the Occupied Territories (which, itself, is only 22% of British Palestine), then it is something very different. It is not defensive, it is an act of aggression, an act of colonization, an "incitement to violence". So, it depends, crucially, on where the Wall is built. <What events caused them to get rid of a Palestinian workforce -that was treasured only 4 years ago?> That workforce is treasured, as long as it is a docile low-paid work-force for the Israeli economy. When that workforce demands to be treated as human beings, equal to Jews, then it is no longer treasured. Then, that workforce is imprisoned behind Walls, where they will sit in their ghettoes, till they have learned submission to their masters. At least, that's the plan. Israel "treasures" their Palestinian workers, like the Saudis "treasure" the Phillipino maids and Pakistani nurses who do all the work, and like the U.S. "treasures" the millions of wet-backs who pick our fruit and scrub our toilets.