Chaim Amalek writes: “NO! This is not the way to go! And they are cheating their own people out of the diversity of experience that enriches us all.
“This is terrible. How will I be able to show my face in liberal New York if I support this?”
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli police on Sunday began erecting a wall in east Jerusalem to protect a Jewish neighbourhood subject to firebomb and stone attacks launched from an adjacent Palestinian village.
The wall would effectively divide Palestinian Jabel Mukaber and Jewish Armon Hanatziv, raising criticism among the government’s opposition, which considered the move a de facto division of Jerusalem.
As of Sunday, police had placed six slabs below Jabel Mukaber, each about 2.5 metres (yards) high and two metres long. Black lettering in Hebrew at the bottom of the slabs read “temporary mobile police barrier”.
The municipality said the wall would eventually cover a 300-metre strip, stressing it would not be peripheral and it was being placed where “there is a history of stone and firebomb throwing at Jewish homes and cars”.
Jabel Mukaber has been a hotspot in the recent wave of violence in which 42 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been killed, raising fears of a full-blown Palestinian uprising grew.
Three residents of the village had killed three Israelis in two separate attacks in Jerusalem on Tuesday before being killed by security forces.
Are white people in America allowed to put up walls to protect themselves from blacks and latinos?
