Yahoo! News - Palestinians Seek Backing Against Barrier

Yahoo! News - Palestinians Seek Backing Against Barrier:

"It remains our view that this referral to the court was inappropriate and that, in fact, it could impede efforts to achieve progress toward a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.

Washington, he said, also rejects the idea there should be "further action" by the United Nations in light of the court ruling.

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This is the right position for the U.S. The wall/barrier is reducing and/or has reduced the suicide bombings by the Palestinian terrorists on the Israeli side of the wall.

I think the Israeli tactics of head-hunting the Hamas leadership and making Arafat irrelevant is a reasonable short term approach. We hear almost nothing about and from Arafat - good! The suicide bombings have been drastically curtailed - also good.

Unfortunately, a wall/fence is not a good thing long term, but it's working in the short term.

The Palestinian-pleasing 'world court' should be ignored.

Let us not forget that these 'occupied territories' result from a war against the Israelis by Arab nations which the Arabs lost. Israel has every right to protect itself from the Palestinian fanatics. The Palestinian leadership does not want peace. They want nothing less than the annihilation of Israel.

Good fences may not make good neighbors, but if it keeps Palestinian terror at a much lower level, arguments against it are weak.