Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent: Israel agrees to raze part of West Bank separation fence
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Name:Michael
City: Ra`ananaState: Israel
I for one am glad that the government changed the route. This gives one less focal point for protests that consume our military manpower for thousands of man-hours weekly and gives nothing in return, except the limitation of a settlement.
Does anyone remember how bad the roads were under the Likud, who invested every agora they could scrape from other budgets into the settlements?
Why do the settlements have to be maintained and expanded at the expense of the rest of the country`s conditions? Are we ready to let a minority dictate to the majority so easily?
IMO, the monies invested in many of the settlements would have been far better spent providing work in the peripheral development towns.