To understand why, this Toronto Star article explains a lot why the Internationalists don't like the Israeli West Bank fence.
... Palestinians of Gaza can daily compare their pitiable conditions with those of normal people by staring through the barbed wire at the lush fields of the Jewish settlers who, even though there are only 7,000 of them, occupy one-quarter of Gaza's land and consume one-third of its water.And
Perhaps the most telling illustration of this attitude was a poll reported last month by the well-respected Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah. It found a widespread demand for democracy. More revealing, the kind of democracy that people of Gaza most want to copy, according to the survey, is that of the Israelis. In this sense, they admire their enemies more than their own leader.The fantasy of a Palestinian state is only a reality in the minds of the self-deluding Left but it is increasingly hard for them to pretend that Arafat is anything but a criminal boss presiding over a criminal enterprise, helpfully funded by $10 million a month from the EU. When you come down to it, maybe that is exactly what the U.N. and the EU have in common with Arafat.
There was a period in history when even the Soviet Union could no longer maintain as credible fiction some of their most outlandish lies. As far back as Kruschev, de-Stalinization admitted the horrendous crimes of Stalin, something not even the New York Times will admit even today. Duranty's Pulitzer still hangs with pride at the New York Times. With only a tiny "you caught us" disclaimer.
