More profoundly, they fear that the fence, by its massive presence and permanence, will inexorably dig itself into the national consciousness as the new-old border between Israel and Palestine the border that they have laboured for decades to erase from the public mind.
Among the settlers and their political hinterland, the fear is that the fence, by its massive presence and permanence, will dig itself into the national consciousness as the new-old border between Israel and Palestine the border that they have laboured for decades to erase from the public mind.