WATCH: Protesters breach West Bank separation barrier

So if you say you're going to build a wall in the middle of your neighbors' backyard, and they ask you not to, and then you do it there anyway, and then they start to pull it down, this gives YOU the right to shoot THEM? Wo unto those who call light dark and darkness light.

now or after the wall will be down and they will get freedom

The government of Israel is crazy for tolerating this type of attack on its sovereignty. A few well placed bullets would end this nonsense once and forever.

"Palestinians want to be free from walls. It`s not that complicated, really." - hf They can emigrate, but who will take them all?

The Guardian, 9.April.2006 "Yihiyeh Musa, a Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said Hamas had moved into a 'new era' which did not require suicide attacks. 'The suicide bombings happened in an exceptional period and they have now stopped,' he said. 'They came to an end as a change of belief.'"

For sure the wall is a physical impediment, but there are still long stretches, where there is no separation fence or wall at all and a determined attacker will have no major difficulty getting through. I think that much more important than any kind of physical obstruction, has been the Palestinian strategic decision to cease suicide attacks, because they were harming the Palestinian cause. Also many suicide attacks were in response to an outrage from the Israeli side. In fact the first ever suicide attack against Israeli civilians on 7 April 1994 was expressly in retaliation for the 25 February 1994 massacre of 35 Palestinian worshippers at the al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron by Israeli American colonist Baruch Goldstein.

The Israeli Walls, fences (and check points, etc) are meant to prevent West Bank and Gaza people MOVING OUT of their reduced territories, which equal keeping them IMPRISONED IN. BTW how can any human being call 4.000.000 people "terrorists"?

Lunatics are already in! they have been ruling us for 61 years now!

KEEP THE LUNATICS FROM ENTERING ISRAEL.

No hasbarah my dear. Just the true. Berlin wall was conceived to keep people in. The West Bank wall is to keep terrorism and Hammas out. Together with check points, and permanent presence of soldiers and settlers the wall helped to keep terrorism and Hammas out of the west bank. The total opposite view unfolded in Gaza. "We waited for 3,000 years, no? The Palestinians have only just begun, quite admirable by our own standards." No problem and quite admirable indeed. We can give them a better deal. Not 3000 years. Just 500 years. In the meantime, Israel should keep the territorial status quo and keep settling. Why not? Have you any problem with it? At least H. Clinton does not have any problem with it. Obama doesn't have any problem with it either. Or at least does not show any objection.

Fine. Build a wall as high as you wish...on Israeli land or the green line. You make for a terrible neighbor. Also..when and why would Jews, of all people, be in favor of collective punishment? When the wall cuts in into Palestine it takes valuable aquifers, farm land, trees...hmm..yes..security. I have never seen a society as blind to the obvious, or maybe we have in the past- the Germans perhaps?

and this one has done nothing more than others to protect citizens against suicide bombers. So why aren't you bleeding hearts condemning those other walls? What's the problem? I'll tell you what the problem is: You aren't allowed to enter those countries and hold protests, are you? Ask your little pea brains why that is.

Perhaps you are using the Israeli version of Google which precludes it's citizens access to the truth, go to www.un.org for the ICJ ruling, and if you want an insight into the legitimacy of settlements in occupied territory then go to www.icrc.org and read article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention, especially paragraph six!

Madrassa brains reign supreme....

I followed your advice, this is what I found: "Since Israel seized the West Bank from the Kingdom of Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War, this territory has been essentially disputed land with the claimants being Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians. Its ultimate status and boundaries will require negotiation between the parties, according to UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.

Just google ICJ and illegal barriers

Mark, how right you are! Not only are there narrow openings here and there, (valves to prevent the pressure reaching boiling point?) but in fact the wall itself barely covers 50% of the divide between the West Bank and Israel. If there was to be another serious intifada, the Wall will present no obstacle at all. Is it not better to remove this ugly, crazy, object of constant irritation, and ensure that the people on either side of it can come together and work out a modus vivendi before there is more slaughter on both sides.

one million Yaakov Teitel's around the world too long have we been peace loving death before dishonour .

Even if everything you say is true, when the next intifada comes, it will slow them down.

the wall is illegal, there is no legal implications for those who cross it. the wall will come down, just a matter of time.

Clearly the wall is of a fundamentally unsound design. What clown is responsible?

"They could certainly leave that area .." They don't want to leave that area, they want Palestinian territory back. "Like how you Omit that other Arab countries refuse to nationalize Palestinian refugee`s " They don't want to live elsewhere, they want to live in Palestine, they're Palestinians. The Arab states don't offer citizenship because the Palestinians don't want citizenship in other Arab states. They will not go away, they will not give up. We waited for 3,000 years, no? The Palestinians have only just begun, quite admirable by our own standards.

Palestinians want to be free from walls. It's not that complicated, really.

None of the respondents who claim that the "wall has kept the suicide bombers out" could ever have travelled the length of this ignoble barrier. If they had, they would have seen how many tiny but navigable gaps there are. They would have seen elderly women carrying heavy loads, scrambling up the steep inclines to pass through these gaps; the students who daily risk imprisonment if caught but are determined to further their education, and the young female doctors who undertake the arduous daily travel to the hospitals where they are specialising and who have to suffer the humiliation of creeping through these gaps in the early morning and late night darkness. If one is determined one can pass through, albeit at great risk. The Wall only serves to keep the populations separate from one another, to make life difficult for the Palestinian people on both sides,and no doubt to profit the contractors who built it.

The Palestinians only wish their cause was as noble as that of East Germans breaking free of Communism. I don't remember hearing of any Germans blowing themselves up in public buses, restaurants and discotheques. The Soviets built the wall to forcibly keep their citizens within the Communist fold. Israel built a security barrier to keep murderers out. If the Palestinians invested as much time and effort for a real push for peace as they do for poor and meaningless photo ops, they'd live normal lives much sooner.

Sani Meo is so right. The atrocity of this ghastly structure must be demolished ASAP. Artificially separating populations, enclosing them in ghettoes and preventing interaction, only perpetuates conflict.

It's true that Israeli courts have sometimes ruled in favor of the Palestinians and ordered the wall removed or re-located. The IDF has ignored all these court decisions, as in Bil'in. Ich bin ein Bil'iner

I suspect the wall be righted by morning.

30 years after Berlin, Palestinians commemorate the fall of one of the most hideous signs of oppression in History, with this action against the new sign of oppression of our days. If only this wall had fell...

THIS WILL BE ONE OF THOSE ICONIC PICTURES LIKE THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL OR THE CHINESE YOUTH STANDING BEFORE A TANK AT TIANANMEN SQUARE. DAVID

Sadly I fear for the life expectancy of the protestors. Similar perhaps to the Tianamen Square protesters. Since then the Chinese authorities have progressed dramatically; the Israeli ones regressed to the Middle Ages.

Look at the map. It is close enough. Mapping out where the fighting stopped was pretty inexact back then. Plus, the challenging topography of the land makes following an imaginary line impractical if not impossible. What makes you think that all disputes must be resolved in favor of the suicide bombers? If your clients had leadership, the wall would disappear.

Please spare us your patronizing attitude. Palestine has things to offer, no other places in the world can match, starting with the birthplace of Jesus! This is home after all!

The answer is very simple. The wall is not essentially for protection but to take more land. It is not just a wall. It has cordons in front of it and has neccesitated the cutting down of trees, destruction of agriculaturql lands and has therefore allowed Israel to lay claim tomore land which will be annexed to their colonies on their side of the wall.

The security barrier is one of the most intelligent things Israel has ever done. It has saved countless innocent lives from Palestinian murderers.

It runs through Palestinian land. Why didn't they build it on the border? Anyone care to explain

The supreme court might have ruled in favor of them, but that does not mean that the wall has actually been moved. In the case of Bi'lin and Na'lin the wall was ordered to be moved. However, two years later it remains in the same place. Would you not protest the lack of rule of law? The expropriation of your land to favor another ethnic group? If the wall was truly to protect Israel, it should have been drawn along the green line. That would have saved a lot of headache, and a lot of money instead of letting it go in the loops it goes through today.

...Sustainability. For Example, imagine we have two countries, country A who has 2.1 kids per marriage and dedicts itself to wealth and production, and country B that has 5+ kids per marriage and dedicates itself to culture of religion. Now let's say country B always has monsoons, such that the majority of its land is unworkable for much of the year, and as a coupled with high birth rates has famines should country A help. I'd say yes, However, what if 10 years later the same issue happens, should country A help? I'd say yes, but based on conditions that force change of culture, you can keep religion but must change creed to be sustainable, otherwise, country A is subsidizing life for peoples of country B and that means that country A's culture of production and wealth is considered less valuable than Country B's culture of religion. and this is not fair to country A. This is what we have here, and it shouldn't be incumbent on Israel to help an unsustainable culture.

Conviently Omit. They could certainly leave that area if other Arab and Muslim Nations, i.e. their Brothers and Sisters, let them in, so to say they are stuck there becuase of Israel misses well, the WHOLE MIDDLE EAST That Borders that part of the world. Like how you Omit that other Arab countries refuse to nationalize Palestinian refugee's living in their lands, contrary of course to EVERY OTHER REFUGEE IN THE WORLD. Wait for it once more. CONTRARY TO EVERY OTHER REFUGEE IN THE WORLD. But no Palestinians are the by book case of international law, not a series of special treatment since their inception in the modern world as "Palestinians" Great Work you do CJ keep it up

I only wish protests like these were done on a larger scale. If i could I'd give every Palestinian in the West Bank a sledge hammer and some dynamite to take that thing down right.

It separates Palestinians from Palestinians.

That wall is there to keep them out. It's a breach of national security to try to tear it down. The wall is there to keep them out of Israel, not to keep them in Na'alin.

Can you blame these poor unfortunates for wanting to get into the land of milk and honey? If you were them, would you want to live in a repressive, corrupt, Islamic country or territory? I can't imagine it. These guys are just like those poor, desgraciado Mexicans who are always trying to cross over into the U.S. to get away from the terrible reality they live every day because of the culture and society they are from.

It may not always be positioned in the fairest of ways, though the Israeli Supreme Court has often ruled in favour of Palestinians when a section of the wall's placement was challenged. But its intent to keep out suicide bombers, has been hugely successful. Were the risk of tearing down the wall not more death and destruction within the borders of Israel then most people even within Israel would be all for removing it. However having experienced life without the wall we prefer the security it brings. The Palestinians brought the wall and checkpoint upon themselves. Israelis cannot live in fear of suicide bombers. The helps prevent them.

Let me tell you what the wall is keeping in. Its keeping in the people responsible for the deaths of nearly 150 children under the age of 12 who were blown to bits by suicide bombers. Its keeping in the people who slaughtered mothers and children eating pizza and riding on buses. Its keeping in people who blew up the cafetaria in a unversity killing innocent students. Its keeping people in who sent a suicide bomber into a hotel to blow up roomfull of elderly sitting down to celebrate a religius holiday and finally CJ its keeping in the animals who killed and maimed hundreds of other innocents eating in restaurants and waiting in line to go dancing. How come CJ you do not understand the concept of cause and effect. Why was there no walls, no checkpoints and no suicide bombers from 1967 until Yassir Arafat came back in 1994. Why is there only one side of the story for terrorist suporters like you. Why CJ why. None so blind as those who do not want to see.

Depends on which side of the wall you are sitting. From your side is against terror from the other side its a land grab. Its easy to solve this confusion, just put the wall on the 67 line and make it as high as you want, then I'll be more than to support your argument.

something is "achieved"! Better educate oneself instead. That provides better chances, understanding and value when it is time for the serious talk.

It was the choice of the Palestinians to have Israel build the Separation Barrier. They had the option of statehood, soveriegnty and prosperity but preferred killing Jews and Intidada instead. Older Palestinians have explained that, to them, '67-'93 was their "Golden Age". They could easily travel and work in Israel, Israelis could tour and shop, they received exposure to Western ideas, Israel built infra-structure, hospitals, universities for them etc. All that stopped with Oslo and the Intifada that resulted from Oslo. Choices have consequences, even for Palestinians.

the west bank is disputed property. Israel has claims that go back thousands of years...The palestinians arabs are recent arrivals from egypt and jordan. Not one moment in 62 years have the palestinian arabs taken a step forward toward peaceful coexistence with jews and with israel

Israel has every right to build a wall- ON ITS OWN LAND! Stop all the 'security' crap (#1) about the wall- you can build your wall on the Israeli side of the green line AND NO ONE WILL COMPLAIN! It is an issue about stealing land and livelihoods, which Israel has done with the wall and the settlements. Stop violating international law, and get your wall and settlers on Israel's side of the green line, and stop pretending that this is only about suicide bombings.

I think people do not understand the design of these types of fences. If you look behind the concrete barrier, you can see there are infact two electronic fences behind the concrete wall, although one is barley visable as it is back a distance. The reason for the concrete wall is to block gunfire directed at urban areas from multiple unidentifiable sources. Even if a the concrete barrier is breached in a few sections, a defending army has identifiable targets to fire at. The part of the fence designed to deal with people is the two rows of electronic fences. If someone breaches the first electronic fence, the army computers know exactly where they are. The fences are then designed to the responding army has enough time to intercept the target long before the reach the second electronic fence. Also, between the two fences and the patrol road is light stand that shows the tracks of anyone who has tried to cross. The system worked exactly as it was designed to.

We need the separation barrier to keep suicide bombers out. I know it's silly of us to object to suicide bombers invading bar mitzvahs so that they can blow up guests and how heroic they are when attacking weddings, but we really would rather they didn't so that. It's odd how Australia won't let innocent refugees in, preferring to house them in prisons on Christmas Island, but some Austrialians are offended that we don't want to let suicide bombers in.

"... who would not protest such a monstrosity as the concrete separaion wall in the midle of ones own property...?!" Someone who's family members were massacred by a suicide bomber while they enjoyed lunch in a cafe. Do you think a barrier on one's property is more important than lives?

And the wall will come down. Keep making Jihad and war against you will escalate everywhere.

They dress up as terrorists, they act as terrorists... and when they get shot as terrorists, they cry like babies to the international community, which doesn't care a single bit about them.

"different kinds of walls" indeed - the Berlin wall was built on East German territory, not beyond.

A steel band along the top edge should do it. Better to find these things now than during the next intifada.

If the wall was built to keep terrorists out why does it cross in to Palestinian territory? Once it begins to be used to grab land it loses all legitimacy. Israel must act to secure its own security but it has no right to continue to steal Palestinian land. Free Palestine!

They should of shot him down. Willthe Pals pay for the destruction of Israeli property.

I wonder when the world will protestthe wall between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or China and Tibet,or the US and Mexico, or the dozen or so other walls separting countries.

Hasbara brains reign supreme....

... revealed in this photo...even if it is only temporary... ... who would not protest such a monstrosity as the concrete separaion wall in the midle of ones own property...?!

Whether by a hydraulic car-jack or by trumpets, this wall will fall. This is what history has taught us!

When the wall will follow the historic example of another seperation wall in Berlin. Colonialism, though holding a great degree of punitive power, is destined to collapse. It cannot sustain itself. Israel has no options but follow the example of France.

The Berlin Wall was meant to keep a people IN...the West Bank barrier is meant to keep terrorists OUT....completely different situations.

"Israeli leaders say the barrier is a temporary obstacle that could be removed once a peace agreement with the Palestinians is signed." And they are doing all they can to prevent signing a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Meanwhile, settlements go on and land theft continues and the Palestiniains are to blame, as usual!!!

because it has successfully stopped them from their murderous intent against Israeli citizens. Terror attacks on Israeli citizens have basically stopped since the wall went up.