July 7th 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague the Israeli Security Wall Illegal. Since the beginning of its construction in 2002, the wall has continued to isolate large tracts of Palestinian land and create disconnected and walled-in Palestinian cantons. In mid-April, 2004, U.S. President George Bush gave Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon the green light to confiscate sections of the West Bank shaved off by the wall and by Jewish settlements.

The wall, a massive concrete and wire construction, twists away from the green line and meanders through the private property of Palestinian...