Comment by bushbaba
2 years ago
The wall wasn’t always there. Just like how the wall trump put between US and Mexico wasn’t always there. Actions have consequences and the West Bank situation regressed from continued suicide bombing and terrorist attackers.
Actions certainly do have consequences, like roughly forty years prior to the wall's construction, arbitrary "military orders" that post-occupation immediately granted the military total authority over every aspect of Palestinian life, declared all water to be the property of Israel, and that land could be seized for any reason - and more which have since made it illegal to do nearly anything without the authorization of the military, which includes everything from planting flowers to doing anything related to water to groups larger than 10 people assembling to attending school to operating a tractor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Military_Order
Afaik there was already a wall pre-Trump