Palestinians decry the Israelis’ security barrier, erected in the face of withering terror attacks. I am greatly disturbed by the condemnation of the barrier by Western Christians, who increasingly affirm the Palestinian narrative.

Bottom line: the security barrier (called an Apartheid Wall by Palestinian supporters) has…SAVED LIVES. Terrorist are no longer able to murder Jews via homicide bombers, especially in the capitol city of Jerusalem.

During one visit at the height of the Second Intifada, I opened the paper one morning to be greeted by the faces of murdered Israelis, on the front page of the paper. I asked several people at my hotel, in east Jerusalem, what they thought about the attack in Hebron. They just shrugged their shoulders.

Will anyone among the Palestinians’ supporters simply condemn the use of violence against Jews, and not tack on “but the ‘Wall’…” at the end of their sentence?

The world loudly decries the deaths of Arabs in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but is usually pointedly silent about Jewish deaths.

What a horrible and unacceptable response.

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