Word: barriere
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Though the fence isn't meant to delineate the border of a future Palestinian state, many Israelis are concerned that it might become just that. Particularly sensitive are Israeli settlers in the West Bank who will find themselves living on the wrong side of the barrier. There is also to be a fence through Jerusalem, one that some Israelis fear could set the stage for the city's partition in an eventual peace settlement. Palestinian officials don't like the wall either, because it raises the possibility that Israel could one day shut the gates and forgo peace negotiations, leaving...
...West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially, won't completely fence off the West Bank. But it will make it much harder for Palestinians to cross between the militant hotbeds in the north of the West Bank and the populous coastal region of Israel. Terrorists can't easily go around the barrier, because travel within...
Aides to Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer say he would prefer to build the fence right along the Green Line. But practical problems have pushed Israeli planners to set the obstacle inside the West Bank at several points. The entire barrier network--which includes a ditch, several roadways, concertina wire and surveillance cameras, as well as a 10-ft.-tall electric fence--will be 130 ft. wide. That means there wouldn't be enough room to lay the network along the Green Line where it divides three Arab towns. As a result, the people of Barta'a, Baka is-Sharqiyeh...
...planned barrier consists of multiple obstacles for would-be infiltrators and is similar to a network that runs along Israel's border with Jordan. Building it will cost $1.6 million per mile. The government so far has approved construction along 75 miles (120 km) of the Green Line, and the Defense Ministry hopes to fence off the entire West Bank
...starts triggering autoimmune disorders, but at least one culprit is a particular kind of immune cell called a T cell. In Type 1 diabetes (which used to be known as juvenile-onset diabetes), T cells destroy the cells of the pancreas. In multiple sclerosis, they cross the biomolecular barrier that protects the brain and attack the outer covering of nerve cells. If you could deactivate the right T cells, you might be able to slow down the degenerative process--and maybe halt it altogether...