A leader of Germany’s Green Party compared Israel’s West Bank security fence to the Berlin Wall. Parliament member Ludger Volmer criticized what he called a policy of “strict separation” between Israelis and Palestinians in the form of “this monstrous barrier that is being built there and that bears a fatal resemblance to the Berlin Wall.”
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