Some call it a "security wall" meant to keep terrorists out of Israel.
Others call it an "apartheid wall" and a "land grab" meant to maintain a Jewish majority population in Israel, squeezing non-Jews into ever smaller, less sustainable bits of land. These critics observe that the wall is not built along the West Bank border, but cuts into the West Bank.
Catholic spokesman Cardinal John Patrick Foley gives Israel the benefit of the doubt, assuming that the wall really is about security. Even so, he calls for its end:
The martyr’s wife
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[image: Palestinians grieve loved ones killed by Israeli attacks at the
al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on December 19, 2024. (Photo: Hadi
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