update Ampersand's site is back up. He responds to criticism at the bottom of his post. I disagree with his presentation and some details; not the fundamental premise: this wall is an impediment to peace.

I'm not in favor of this action, but I wanted to respond to the inaccurate depiction on Amp's site. (He's having a hosting problem, and I'm banned from the site anyway.)
Politics aside, I don't even see how it makes sense on a tactical level. Palestinian terrorists already use rockets as a means of attack (e.g. the incidents preceding this protest in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip) — can't they just shoot them over such a wall?
Some salient points, in the order of what I have to say about them:

• Rachel Corrie was killed in Gaza, not the West Bank.
• That particular home was bulldozed in the course of looking for smuggling tunnels, used by terrorists and smugglers, not because it stood in the way of some new line on a map.
• Neither article he linked to says anything about whether the wall is built around cities or through them, much less knocking down houses for that purpose. Perhaps it is; I'm just saying that's not a reasonable conclusion based on the sources you cite.
• The maps omitted the Gaza Strip entirely. That would have shown a lot more blue.
• He omitted the cities, which would show that every single major Palestinian city would be under their sovereignty, save two: Jerusalem (because it's primarily Jewish and is the capital of Israel) and Jericho (which is very close to the Jordanian border). That doesn't justify it, but it does contradict the conspiracy theory du jour that Ariel Sharon's plan is the forced mass relocation of Palestinians. If anything, this is the exact opposite or those claims — Sharon seeks to keep them in place, not move them en masse.

Sure, a picture's worth a thousand words, but let's make sure it's an accurate one.

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