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Is it a wall or a fence? Proponents of the wall like to call it a fence. William Safire recently referred to it as a "defence fence." If it is a fence, it is no fence that your local farmer would recognize. Wall or fence, one fact is clear: it is being built on Palestinian land and separates Palestinians from their land, water, work, hospitals, and each other.
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A boy looks over the new fence system which separates him from the land of his people. The fields and orchards are no longer part of his youth . . . |
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Whatever you want to call it, the fence is a system of barbed wire, ditches, electronics, and patrol roads. It takes a wide swath of land and appropriates Palestinian land without compensation or legal recourse. Many Palestinians find themselves, their homes, towns, farms, orchards, or their water on the wrong side of the fence. |
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Sometimes, though, the fence is actually a wall . . . Here the entire Palestinian city of Qalqiliya is surrounded by a concrete wall. |
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Israeli's patrol the wall regularly. |
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The wall also consists of guard towers that look down upon the Palestinians. |
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Construction is ongoing, 24 hours a day . . . |
Two views of a wall: |
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On the Israeli side of their various walls, they are often painted to look like a pleasant and nice thing (while the Palestinians just on the other side live in occupation and poverty). |
| On the other side, graffiti marks the Palestinian's pain. |
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