"Indeed. If we can't get our governments to take a stand, then an international boycott is a good starting point for the rest of us."
A Meeting of trades unionists, politicians, clerics et-al has just called for such a boycott to be put in place in Irealand.
"Since Israel put theirs up to help keep suicide bombers out"
Did they - I was under the impression that they put it up to ghettoise the Palestinians and to lower their standard of life in order to starve them out. The wall conveniently cuts many of the Palastinian farms in half, thus depriving their owners of a livelihood - Emma B said all that has to be said on this red herring. Wall building is a tried and trusted technique last used to some effect by the Nazis in Warsaw. As has been more than adequately pointed out, walls don't keep out determined resistance of any form, see the Berlin Wall and, for that matter, the one around the Warsaw Ghetto.
It will be interesting to find out the truth of the claim coming from one of Israel's strongest allies (up to now) that several of the victims of Israel's act of piracy earlier this week were executed by a single bullet in the back of the head. This can only add to the Irraeli Army's growing reputation as one of the most thuggish in the world.
Jim Carroll