By now you must have seen the size
of this gader hafradeh ("separation fence"). According to Nigel Parry on The Electronic Intifada: "Israel's Separation Barrier,
dubbed the "Apartheid Wall" or "Berlin Wall" by Palestinians, has increasingly
attracted international media attention, largely due to the hard-to-ignore scale
of the project. The most obvious historical parallel to the barrier is the
Berlin Wall, which was 96 miles long (155 kilometers). Israel's barrier, still
under construction, is expected to reach at least 403 miles in length (650
kilometers). The average height of the Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet (3.6 metres),
compared with the maximum* current height of Israel's Wall -- 25 feet (8
metres)."
Read the entire essay from the Global Gulag archives
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