According to a report by a group of Israeli ex-generals and Palestinians, Israel should remove a handful of large checkpoints around the West Bank. I find it interesting that the article, from the AP, calls the checkpoints “key”, and yet insinuates that they should be removed. If they are “key”, shouldn’t they be left where they are?
The group of six, three Israelis and three Palestinians, argues that the checkpoints are no longer needed, and that the security fence now serves the same purpose.
I would like to ask them, what is the point of a security fence if the people who want to attack you can just walk around? If there are no checkpoints, there is no reason for the fence. Yet, we have seen that the fence works. Jerusalem is the most exposed city to terrorism due to the geography, it is surrounded by “West Bank” on three sides. Before the fence went up, terrorist attacks in Jerusalem were very common. Since it has gone up, terrorist attacks in Jerusalem have virtually vanished. The only recent attack was by someone who lived on the Jerusaelm side of the fence.
So, why fix what is not broken? The fence is keeping people alive. The checkpoints are keeping people alive. We should just leave it alone.
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None of the security measures we are trying to implement will ever succeed. Building a wall does not prevent us from terrorist attacks, it simply reduces them. We are still hated and our holy city is in ruin. We avoid posting a painful question “Why” because our ego does not want to be confronted with unpleasant answers we might find within ourselves. We are victims of our egoistic nature.
Jerusalem – a center for the world, a holy place for all religions – is in chaos because our hearts are in ruin. The solution to the problem is not here in the corporeal world. We are being pushed to start climbing the spiritual ladder, but we fail to comprehend it. The holy city must be and will be restored, but not before we fulfill our obligation to achieve spirituality and lead other people and nations there… Until then we’ll experience only unrest and pressure…
Michael Laitman says it better than I do – http://www.laitman.com/2008/03/the-spiritual-jerusalem/