[LarryLied]

What is the fun of building a fence if you don't do all you can to annoy the neighbors? Of course you put it a little over the line. If you don't ask you don't get and you can always take less.

[Torie]

The beauty of the PA not liking where the fence is being built, is that they might realize that time is running out. Maybe that will help concentrate their focus in a positive direction, but I seriously doubt it. More likely it will be in a negative direction, so things might get worse before they get better. One step backward for two steps forward.

[monkeyshine]

What you are missing from the argument is leverage. Why would Israel withdraw to the pre 1967 border in exchange for nothing?

The deal has always been "land for peace". The land is the only negotiating tool Israel has. Make peace, get land. Make no peace, get no land. The fence is meant to be a prophylactic, not a border... although I admit that it will probably be a defacto border, which is probably why Israel refuses to build it on the green line. They are giving up a lot of land (defacto) in the hopes that it will end the terrorism, not create a peaceful coexistence.