The Psychological Implications of Israel’s Separation Wall on Palestinians

[Herschel]

The Separation Wall that the Israeli government is said to be building for security reasons stands at 8 meters (25feet) high. This wall will approximately affect 90,700 Palestinian residents of 32 villages in the Qalqilya area and will isolate and thus effectively confiscate 47,020 dunums of land (11,755 acres) and will destroy another 7,750 dunums (1,937 acres). Six of the villages, with approximately 1,000 residents, will be completely trapped between the Wall and the 1967 Green Line; isolating them from the West Bank and effectively annexing them to Israel without being granted citizenship or legal rights. Land, which is the base of the economic lifeline of this area, is being taken away as it's people watch helplessly.

In community psychology there are three main factors that constitute the highest stressors which affect people psychologically. These are:


Lack of social support systems


Limited social relations as people are confined to their homes – every town and village is cut off from the other and completely isolated. There is disintegration of family and social relationships


Unemployment and poverty

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Unfortunate. It seems the terrorists have no mind of what they do to their owwn.

[Forkboy]

1. I've been told this source isn't any good

so I'll not pay attention to this.

[Herschel]

2. Well said

I should have noted the dubious source.

[Forkboy]

3. Why did you believe it this time?

[Herschel]

4. Very well

A second source is advisable.

[Jim Sagle]

5. Perhaps because they had no incentive to lie in this case?

[Forkboy]

6. Or perhaps people believe whatever fits notions already held.

[Comadreja]

7. S. African precedents

"I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa."
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, leader of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa