I am writing in reply to Dec. 24 letter to the editor, “Wall helps protect residents from violent attacks.”

Everyone, whether they are Israeli or Palestinian, deserves to live in peace and security and Israel certainly has a right to build a fence on its border.

However, the route of the wall shows that it was built for reasons other than security. For example, 90 percent of the wall was built on Palestinian land often several miles beyond the internationally recognized border. The wall expropriates large areas of Palestinian agricultural land separating Palestinians from their fields and orchards and Palestinians from Palestinians.

During its construction, Israel uprooted thousands of ancient olive groves in the wall’s path. Bethlehem is nearly two miles from Israel and yet the wall comes within a few feet of the city and even snakes inside the city to annex Rachel’s Tomb to Israel. The fence was also routed to gain control of the precious aquifers in Palestine for Israel’s benefit. Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank are allocated four times as much water as the Palestinians living there.

I am sorry that Ms. Kipersztok missed the film at the Redmond Library. Had she attended she would have learned the above and more. If she is interested in pursuing the subject further I would be more than happy to arrange another showing.

David Schach, Redmond