Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that are easily persuaded by Palestinians guilt trips in the world. A large part of the Palestinian claim to Israel being an Apartheid State is the West Bank barrier; a wall built along the border of Israel and the regions of Judea and Samaria in the West Bank. This claim is extremely prominent on twitter, with countless tweets and pictures describing or depicting the lines of Palestinians going through checkpoints along this wall in order to enter Israel. Those living on the wrong side of the fence and their very narrow minded supporters around the world would have you believe that the reason for this concrete monstrosity, and there is no doubting the ugliness of the wall, is to cage them up like dogs or to dehumanize. There are a couple of things you should really think about here before you believe this simple-minded approach.
The wall is the same from both sides, as much as the Palestinians love to complain about how depressing the site is and draw pretty pictures as if it were the Berlin Wall of the Middle East, the same view bothers Israelis on the other side of the block. Just because they don't complain to worldwide media does not mean that they don't go through the same heartache when they see it.
Despite the aesthetic appeal (or rather, lack of it), Israeli's view the barrier with clear minds as they know it was built for one purpose, and it has been extremely successful in carrying out the task. It was built to stop terrorists. In 2002, the year before the wall's construction began, 457 Israelis were killed by terrorists in the West Bank. In 2009, that number fell to 8. Say what you want about the way it looks, but when your enemy is willing to carry out suicide missions to kill innocent civilians in your country,why should you not have the right to make it harder for these terrorists to come in?
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