Since construction of the anti-terrorist fence commenced, there has been an 85% reduction in the number of terrorist attacks.
Number of terrorist attacks entering Israel
from the West Bank since 2001:
250+
Number of terrorist attacks entering Israel
from Gaza in the same period:
0
What makes the difference?
THERE IS A WALL AROUND GAZA.
ISRAEL'S SECURITY FENCE SAVES LIVES
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UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
On July 5, 2005, at its 25th biennial General Synod in Atlanta, the United Church of Christ (UCC) passed two anti-Israel resolutions. The first was a divestment resolution and the second resolution calls for Israel to tear down its security fence.
The UCC's "Tear Down the Wall" resolution tells Israel to take down the separation barrier, but it does not ask the Palestinians to stop suicide attacks against Israelis. This resolution ignores Israeli efforts to minimize the barrier's impact on farmers and to speed passage through checkpoints. Moreover, it suggests the barrier was built in a vacuum, rather than in response to the murder of more than 1,000 Israelis since September 2000 at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. For a small country like Israel, that is the equivalent of 40,000 U.S. citizens murdered by terrorists.
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DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
On July 27, 2005, the General Assembly of the Disciples of Christ passed a resolution entitled "Breaking Down the Dividing Wall," which calls on Israel to "…tear down the barrier fence." The content of the Disciples of Christ's resolution mirrors the UCC's resolution since the UCC and the Disciples of Christ share a Global Ministries Board.
Jerusalem Post reporter Susan Blatt's article on August 7, 2005, entitled "Disciples of Christ to Israel: Drop Dead," states "[a]fter reading this document it's hard not to conclude that these members have, while remaining fully in touch with their emotions, completely lost touch with 'the abstract facts' of real life. Look again at the date: 15 days after the Netanya suicide bombing. Four days after a would-be bomber was intercepted climbing the fence. If these facts do not demonstrate that completing the fence is necessary to save lives, then what would?"
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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA (ELCA)
At it's Ninth Biennial Churchwide Assembly in Orlando, Florida (August 8-14, 2005), rather than rubber-stamp an anti-Israel resolution written by the denomination's staff, ELCA's voting members amended the original language to make it less critical of Israel in general and its security fence in particular.
Although ELCA's amendments were minor, they presented a significant departure from the anti-Israel resolutions that were adopted by the overwhelming majority of participants at the UCC's and Disciples of Christ's conventions.
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