The West Bank: An Open Air Prison?

What we most often hear Israeli politicians say and repeat over and over again is this: Instead of spending so much money on rockets and war material, they can invest in infrastructure. It's very easy to say that, but when it comes time and the Palestinians want to do exactly that, we will see the Israelis taking back their words. Before I write about the infrastructure issue, let me write about the possibility of a Palestinian state existing on the other side of this fence. This picture, reminds me of a concentration camp, not a "wall to ensure the safety of Israeli citizens". It's three times the height of the Berlin Wall, and so much times longer, engulfing the whole West Bank when it will be complete in 2012. The United Nations has to wake up to this nightmare and order Israel to stop building this Apartheid Wall. It is in all sense apartheid and the West Bank is now a huge prison. People living in the West bank can't go to other villages without stopping hours on end at ridiculous checkpoints, operated by obnoxious teenage boys serving their military service. They have no citizenship, and no nation, they are simply a forgotten people on this earth. No one can cross this wall and go into Israel without a special permit, a permit that is impossible to get by most occupants of this territory. Most people are poor in the West Bank because what jobs in an area that's closed off by a fence would pay a good amount of money. The Israeli's don't give them a chance to work on their side, calling them terrorists and that such. I am fully against the idea of suicide bombing against innocent civilians, and that is not what Islam orders, (anyone can interpret anything in their own way). The suicide attacks are what caused this wall to be built. I could kind of see where they're coming from, but the most they could have done is build checkpoints at some locations on the West Bank because this is just absurd. The West Bank isn't even a country to be closed off by walls like these. Anyone challenging this idea, what do you call what Israel is doing to the Palestinians; protecting their civilians?, no I do not think so at all, and this wall that was built will only increase the tension between these two peoples and will cause more violence as a result. I once compared this wall to the wall that the US wants to build on their border with Mexico. But then I remembered one key fact, Mexico is a country of its own, that is responsible for it's own trade, import and export, economy, infrastructure and a lot more. The West Bank and Gaza have nothing! Wake up everyone, and condemn this act of apartheid, of this imprisonment of the innocent people that are stuck in a poverty-filled area with barely any money, and barely any education for their kids.