"Gaza is our model"
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"Since it is fenced, not even one suicide attack originated from Gaza"
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If anything, Gaza is a warning of what will happen if the Wall is built.
Gaza is the most violent area of friction and conflict.
Gaza is a huge prison, containing 1.2 Million desperate people.
One of the most densely populated areas in the world, Gaza is boiling with frustration and
anger.
But Gaza is our model. Since it is fenced, not even one suicide attack originated from Gaza.
t before addressing the issue of Gaza as a security model, it is important to point out
several major physical differences
between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank:
- The fence around Gaza is 50 Km long. The fence planned for the West Bank will be 950 Km long. Nearly 20 times longer. If, as an example, 5000 soldiers are required to guard the prison called Gaza, guarding the West Bank prison will require 100,000. An unbearable burden. The same calculation applies for all other resources required for maintaining the Wall.
- The fence around Gaza is built on flat terrain. Terrain in the West Bank is much more difficult.
- While the Israeli army needs to defend only 6000 settlers in 15 settlements in Gaza, The exact number of settlers who will remain behind the fence is as yet unknown, all depending on the success of Sharon's plan of "Unilateral Separation".
If Gaza is considered such an example of success, how can we explain the Israeli army having to perform daily incursions into Gaza? How can we explain the demolishing of entire neighborhoods
(over 2000 houses have been demolished in the Gaza Strip in the past 3 years),
the numerous assassinations using helicopter gunships,
the constant shelling of cities and widescale erasing of fields and orchards?
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