About a tenth of it, so far, consists of an eight-metre-high concrete wall which in some places divides Palestinian communities, bars children from their former schools and cuts off farmers from their land, which continues to be confiscated for security and settlement-expansion.

ECONOMIST: Palestine

The British government of Tony Blair has signed up for the ban, but reserves the right to deploy land mines if it is essential for the security of Britain's armed forces--perfect common sense, I think.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Political Minefield

Then too, the fact that the PA's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat published an article in The Guardian two weeks ago in which he implicitly called for Israel's destruction, one could be forgiven for thinking Ma'ariv's former opinion editor Ben Dror Yemini and Shaul Arieli from the EU-funded Council for Peace and Security might have attenuated their support for Israeli land giveaways.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Israeli Left's loser message

Mr Netanyahu had explicitly rejected the land-for-peace principle that drove the process: his achievement, he claimed, would be to give Israel security without divesting it of land.

ECONOMIST: Step back from Har Homa

The Center for Security Policy urges that the Kyl-Pressler amendment swiftly be made the law of the land.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy