Isabel
Kershner, writing in The New York Times, claims the “aboveground fences
and sections of concrete wall [that] run along and through parts of the
West Bank” are “a legacy of Palestinian
suicide bombings during the second intifada.” But she fails to note
many observers’ contention that due to the fact 85 percent of the
barrier runs inside the occupied West Bank, Israel’s construction of it
appears to be far more of a land grab than anything to do with security.
Young Palestinians use a ladder to climb over the Israeli apartheid wall
on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, on the first
Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Al-Ram, north of
Jerusalem, Friday, June 19, 2015. Israeli authorities only allow men
over the age of 40 to visit Jerusalem during Ramadan without a permit.
