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Touring the Barrier


March 12th, 2008 · Israel and the Middle East, Law and Legal Affairs, Religion, World Affairs

JERUSALEM — Slate’s Nathan Hodge and Sharon Wein­berger tour the sep­a­ra­tion bar­rier between Israel and the West Bank here (see part three specif­i­cally). The edi­fice has reduced sui­cide bomb­ings by ninety per­cent, but it has also enraged many Pales­tini­ans by mak­ing their daily lives more difficult.

My analy­sis is here.