When I grew up, my country was divided by a huge fence with landmines and watchtowers and by a Wall. The fence and the wall protected the eastern part of the country from the western one - at least according to the leaders in the east (and now we know there was a certain truth to that). The Israeli Wall is not called a wall or a fence. The Newspeak term is "separation barrier". It's about as ugly and it serves almost the same purpose. Instead of fencing in their own population - like the East Germans - Israel fences in the Palestinians in their own country, "protecting" Israel from terrorism - where terrorism is defined as all violent action committed by Palestinians against Israel but not vice versa, of course.
Spitting Image August 18 2003
