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Israeli security officials seem confident, however, that the curtain will serve their purposes. "With this fence, we'll be able to stop 100% of terrorist infiltrations," asserts Brigadier General Israel Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the 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...
...Israeli homes that are close to Palestinian houses or farmland, concrete walls will block lines of fire, or else the fences will be constructed deeper inside the West Bank. One such spot is in Kokhav Yair, an Israeli town just next to the Green Line. Only yards from the seam line is the leafy home of Israel's army chief of staff, Lieut. General Shaul Mofaz. Instead of putting the fence right outside Mofaz's home, planners shifted the line 500 yds. That will force Palestinians from neighboring Falamah to cross through a checkpoint in the fence to reach their...
...burdened with the years of violence. Outside our hotel four months ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, wounding two people and sending his own body parts into guests' rooms. And even in the simplest of exchanges, people are frozen between moments of hope and intimidation. At the seam between the Jewish and Armenian quarters one morning last week, the photographer who took this picture and I got a flat tire. An Israeli Arab municipal worker stopped to help. The gentle exchange was disrupted by a raucous Jewish security guard who knew the Arab and roughhoused jokingly with...
...Prasse-Freeman finished the first half with just one assist, but that’s because his first inkling was to penetrate. Sometimes it was for the worse, resulting in a blocked shot, a charging call or—on one occasion when he stalled while waiting for a seam to open up—a five-second violation. But more often than not it was for the better, as Prasse-Freeman scored eight first-half points...
...Saddam, of course, is happy to mine this rich propaganda seam. He maximizes the suffering of his own people under sanctions by restricting the flow of food and medicines that are actually available, knowing that this simply builds pressure on Arab regimes to break with Washington on the blockade. Similarly his more aggressive air defenses - Saddam knows that by turning on his radar and firing SAMs he's going to draw the fire of U.S. and British war planes. That's exactly what he wants - at best he'll eventually hit a plane and cause a political crisis over...