The wall requires a security of its own. [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon had made the settlements be built as 'advanced security stations.' There comes a day when the Israeli Army will not be able to protect itself while trying to protect the settlers. The wall is like the idols Prophet Abraham knocked down. Anyone, who cannot protect himself, cannot protect others. Barbed wires to be built in order to protect the wall, radar controls and mine fields are more dangerous than the wall itself.
The wall is not a symbol of the final border but is an expression of not recognizing any border
If the wall turns into the final border, injustice could occur when compared to the 1967 border; however, it is a favor from the Sharonist perspective. It could open 25 percent of the West Bank to annexation; but 75 percent is better in the Sharon language. If it were a border, it would have protected both sides. It is now a border against Palestinians. From the Israeli point of view, it is an expression of not recognizing any border.
The wall separates underground as well as surface
If the 25 percent is annexed, 500,000 people living on the West Bank will be annexed as well. Israel, losing blood everyday in the demographic war, cannot carry this load. It is either no annexation -- or emigration. Regardless of emigration, the wall deprives Palestine of fertile fields that provides 80 percent of its agricultural production, and the fertile wells that provide 65 percent of its underground waters. The concern of those who drew the border, was prosperity rather than security.
The wall makes some people rich
In as much as the part taken from Palestine causes a shift in natural wealth, the wall, in which $2 million is being spent per kilometer, also makes some people rich. It is the Israeli people's problem, who the [ruling] Likud Party, which has rather turned into an alliance of contractors, makes richer. At the same time, the wall will leave economic interaction between Israel and the West Bank in the monopoly of Israelis, who will be able to have 'access through the wall.' I guess it is a detail, which cannot be a coincidence, that the Mizrahi Jews, who know Arabic, are the traditional base of Likud.
It is Wrong to Say the Wall Hinders Terrorism
I guess, the person who claims the wall hinders terrorism does not know how much of the wall has been built so far. Is the only source of terrorism the northern part of the West Bank, which is surrounded by the wall, so that there should be a link between the end of terrorism and the wall? Besides, neither has terrorism stopped nor is the wall inaccessible. A willpower that digs tunnels several kilometers long in order to smuggle weapons from Egypt, could be left out even before knocking down the wall?
The wall is bad itself
It is not enough to say, 'the wall is bad because it unilaterally determines the Palestinian border." The wall is bad because it is a wall. It is bad because it hinders interaction, communication, sharing and knowing. It is bad because it hinders free movement of property, values and opinions. It is bad because it divides the world into the inner side of the wall and the other side. It is against nature. It is ghettoist. As it physically surrounds Palestinians, it also enslaves future Israeli generations.
Palestinian cause cannot be reduced to wall cause
Despite all its malice, the wall is not the only issue facing the Palestinians. A Palestinian Authority that neglects its economic, social and security problems because it assumes that it has cornered Israel through a court ruling, is already mentally 'besieged.' As a matter of fact, terrorism is also a wall. It causes all the harm that the wall does, except separating the geography. It is a vain dream expecting Israel to destroy those [walls] without Palestine destroying its own. Even more so, it is unfair to truth itself to demand a right from anyone who accepts injustice as justice.
July 12, 2004
