In the last 33 months more than 250 suicide bombers have entered Israel from the West Bank, while none have entered from Gaza. Why? Because the Gaza Strip is surrounded by a security fence.

But Condoleezza Rice is pressuring Israel to stop building a similar fence to contain the Arab murderers of the West Bank—apparently because she was swayed by the sustained whining of the Holocaust denier, Abu Mazen: Israel-US rift emerges over security fence. Must be Mazen’s grandfatherly Jew-hating charm.

Rice, during a meeting with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the inner cabinet, expressed US concern that the fence was creating facts on the ground that would prejudge a final settlement, and indicated the US would like to see construction stopped as a confidence building measure.

Sharon, however, replied that if the choice was between having a disagreement with the US over the fence, or burying Israeli victims of suicide bombers, it is clear what choice Israel would make. …

Rice responded by saying that even though Israel claims the fence is not a political border, the fence creates facts on the ground and is seen in the eyes of the Palestinians as a political boundary and may create problems in the future.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas reportedly spent a lot of time in his meeting Saturday night with Rice complaining that the fence is usurping Palestinian land and creating a border that will severely limit a Palestinian state.