Wall

Whenever you have an argument about someone over the Israelis and the Palestinians you reach a point where the other side says, "But you have to compromise at somepoint--they have no choice but to live together." To which I would always answer, "Why?"

There are lots of peoples in the world that live next to each other but do not live together. The peoples of East and West Germany during the cold war, Cyprus, Pakistan and India, all live next to each other but have virtually no contact accross some border. There is no reason that the people of one state have to daily travel into the territory of another state daily just because they are next to one and other. The reason that Israel is expected to allow Palestinians to come into Israel daily is because the Palestinian state is not economically viable on its own, which is held to be the fault of Israel. But even if that were true (though why, in the absence of Israel the Palestinian state should be expected to be any more viable than any other Arab state is unclear), the world seems pervectly willing to go on subsidizing the Palestinians in exchance for terror, why not do so in exchange for actual peace?

But this is ultimately a side issue. What makes people demand that Israel take the wall down and continue to allow daily mass migration into its territory by a population committed to destroying it is that the wall proves what Palestinian supporters must know in their hearts--that the two peoples don't have to live together. They can live separated quite well thank you.

Actual demonstration of this fact terrifies the advocates of "peace". Since the wall has gone up terror attacks have dwindled to almost nothing. The media manages to keep the issue of the middle east looking important by dramtising the internal violence in the Palestinian territories but as the 'rush' to do something about Sudan has show a few thousand Arabs getting killed by other Arabs is something the world, and certainly the other Arabs, are quite willing to tolerate. As for not having the opportunity to work in Israel everyday, that is only what the other Arab states have imposed on themselves already. The Palestinian territories will settle into a comfortable routine of killing, marches and recriminations. The people of the new state will live under a brutal thugocracy that blames all of its problems on the Jews. In other words, it will become a normal Arab country.