A description of life under Israeli oppression in a region that western liberals would condemn Jews to death to deliver food and water to:

Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs and Mercedes than I've seen, for example, in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.

And perhaps most importantly of all, we had driven from Jerusalem to Nablus without going through any Israeli checkpoints. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu has removed them all since the Israeli security services (with the encouragement and support of President George W. Bush) were allowed, over recent years, to crush the intifada, restore security to the West Bank and set up the conditions for the economic boom that is now occurring. (There was one border post on the return leg of the journey, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but the young female guard just waved me and the two Palestinians I was traveling with, through.)

The shops and restaurants were also full when I visited Hebron recently, and I was surprised to see villas comparable in size to those on the Cote d'Azur or Bel Air had sprung up on the hills around the city. Life is even better in Ramallah, where it is difficult to get a table in a good restaurant. New apartment buildings, banks, brokerage firms, luxury car dealerships and health clubs are to be seen. In Qalqilya, another West Bank city that was previously a hotbed of terrorists and bomb-makers, the first ever strawberry crop is being harvested in time to cash in on the lucrative Christmas markets in Europe. Local Palestinian farmers have been trained by Israeli agriculture experts and Israel supplied them with irrigation equipment and pesticides.

A new Palestinian city, Ruwabi, is to be built soon north of Ramallah. Last month, the Jewish National Fund, an Israeli charity, helped plant 3,000 tree seedlings for a forested area the Palestinian planners say they would like to develop on the edge of the new city. Israeli experts are also helping the Palestinians plan public parks and other civic amenities.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571491401847518.html

The title of the article is "Building Peace Without Obama's Interference". Please, Obama, continue leaving them alone!

Three things:

The Arabs are building new "settlements" (called "cities" when not inhabited by Jews) but I could not find any articles condemning this settlement action in the disputed territories.

The Jewish National Fund that plants the trees for the Arabs is the organisation that bought the land Israel was founded on (the same land that liberals now claim the Jews "stole").

Anybody still wonder why "Palestine" has a higher living standard than Egypt and whether the Arab farmers who are trained and supported by Israelis are really as opposed to the Jewish presence as the western world appears to be? Seriously, what's the game here? By demanding strict segregation, are Obama and the Europeans TRYING to keep these things from happening?

And about the border fence, the most brutal crime against human rights the world has ever seen (as measured by air time on news channels):

"There was one border post on the return leg of the journey, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but the young female guard just waved me and the two Palestinians I was traveling with, through."

For someone like me, who grew up in West-Berlin, surrounded by a wall (and a mine field), and who still remembers the hour-long waiting times EVERY TIME we left the city (with cars being searched and fees charged), this crime against humanity doesn't look so bad.