The BBC is reporting that Israel no longer finds it necessary to continue building the wall. The Shin Bet head honcho Yuval Diskin feels “that Israel had enough capabilities to prevent attacks from the Palestinian territory.”

Israel has always claimed that it has the capabilities to contain Palestinian terrorists and that it continuously strives to improve its defenses. Israel has pledges from the US to receive almost $30 billion dollars over the next few years. Accoring to the CRS, Israel has received almost $3 billion a year from the US [PDF]. Almost 2 billion of this is for military purposes. It is already one of the largest receipients of US aid, military and otherwise. Read on »