The danger for the Palestinians is that the Gaza pull-out and the vague talk of a land swap turn out to be a cover for Mr Sharon to concentrate on what they suspect is his longer-term strategy: to use the barrier wall to incorporate big chunks of the West Bank into a Greater Israel.
But there's a big barrier, a Berlin Wall barrier, between 59 and 60.
Travelling around the holy sites of Bethlehem is made difficult by the West Bank Barrier, a security wall built by the Israeli army to seal off the West Bank from the rest of Israel.
There is also evidence, discovered from the air, that throws into doubt the accepted belief that the wall was a barrier between the empire and the barbarian north.
They have made comparisons to the Berlin Wall, to the wall, the security barrier that the Israelis have built around the West Bank.
It coined the draconian term, "The Wall" to define the barrier which is in most places nothing more than a wire fence.
One of the byelaws prohibits "people climbing on any wall, fence, tree, barrier, railing or structure without a reasonable excuse".
The Berlin Wall once stood as a painful barrier between family and friends, a dark symbol of oppression and stifled liberties.
Language was the only barrier, but a friendly smile bulldozed that wall.
The ugly barrier, reminiscent in places of the Berlin Wall (about 7% of it so far consists of nine-metre high concrete slabs), has attracted international condemnation.
To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.
Sebastian Saavedra hit a tire barrier on lap 33 after Andretti ran him into a wall.
The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.
He remarked that "one of the saddest sights for me during my visit to these lands was the wall" -- a reference to the 20-foot concrete barrier he saw in Bethlehem during his visit to a Palestinian refugee camp.
Israel says the barrier is temporary and reversible (it is 95% fence, 5% concrete wall), conceived at the height of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, that started in 2000, and says it has plainly succeeded in stopping suicide-bombers crossing into Israel proper.
The owner, Veolia Environnement, one of the giants of the industry, has built an underground wall of similarly waterproof clay around the site which extends deep enough to reach the natural barrier below.
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