This article from the Sacramento Bee by Ron Unz maintains that a simple fence would have stopped many of the suicide attacks. He charges that Sharons government, because of their adherence to the idea of a Greater Israel will not build a security barrier on the frontier, because that would imply that Israel has no claim to ancient Judea and Sumeria (the West Bank).
"By all accounts, the Palestinians of Gaza are considerably more militant in their anti-Israel Islamic fervor than those of the West Bank, yet Gaza's simple existing fence has prevented the infiltration of even a single suicide-bomber and also kept ordinary terrorist attacks to a negligible level. If a border fence has worked so well in Gaza, why have the Sharonists not considered one for the West Bank as well?"
Does anyone here have specific knowlege of the area in question?
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinio...-2860142c.html