... any idea of the repercussions its construction would have. Harms and Ferry state that the "Security Fence" is a manifestation of Israel's basic commitment to defend its citizen, and once completed, it will improve the ability of the Israel Defense Forces to prevent the infiltration of terrorist and criminal elements into Israel for the purpose of carrying out terrorist attacks ... Palestinian farmers and traders are cut off from their land and means of economic survival meanwhile Israel's Government argues that the fence is purely a security obstacle, definitely not a part of a future b...

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... Israelites by god as their Holy Land (a significant proportion of the Israeli population are termed by historian Thomas Friedman to be Religious Zionists, who feel that the Messiah will come once the Jewish people have earned the Holy Land back). The second is the sheer lack of land inside of the accepted borders of Israel. The third cause of the settler ... , making 'land for peace' impossible, such as the West Bank, that neither Israel nor Jordan truly wish to deal with (however, the exclusion of occupied territories does not negate any future peace as proven in the 1994 Israeli-Jordan...

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