The Palestinian Authority and their supporters in the West constantly complained about the security fence that the Israelis had put up between the West Bank and the rest of Israel after the Second Intifada. Suicide bombings that had been constant swiftly fell away to nothing. Yet almost no one who subsequently criticized this barrier, including most recently the visiting American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, made any mention of the reason why it had been erected in the first place: to stop the suicide bombings that caused the death and injury of hundreds of Israelis. If the Israelis didn’t put up
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