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"As NGO Monitor’s recent in-depth report about the lawfare campaign to use the language of law to criminalize Israel shows, B’Tselem was the first NGO to launch a campaign against the security fence. It coined the draconian term, “The Wall” to define the barrier, which is in most places nothing more than a wire fence. NGO Monitor recalls that in 2002 and 2003 B’Tselem “issued two lengthy position papers, which became accepted as the definitive analyses of ‘the Wall’ and were widely adopted.” B’Tselem’s campaign against the security fence was quickly joined by other NGOs, the UN and the EU. Its allegations formed the basis of the international campaign to delegitimize Israel’s right to build the barrier. That campaign reached a high point in 2004 with the publication of International Court of Justice’s opinion on the matter. The ICJ’s opinion parroted B’Tselem’s charge that Israel has no right to defend itself from Palestinian aggression. So, too, the “evidence” against Israel’s right to defend itself submitted by the PLO was based largely on the two B’Tselem reports. If B’Tselem hadn’t launched the campaign against the fence, it is possible that Israel’s decision to built it might have been greeted with the same indifference as the security fences erected by the likes of India, Spain and numerous other countries in disputed territories. That is, it might have been seen as the legitimate act of selfdefense it is. The central role that B’Tselem and its anti-Zionist comrades in the Israeli NGO community play in the international political war being waged against Israel’s right to exist first came under significant public scrutiny following the publication of the UN Human Rights Council’s Goldstone Report on Operation Cast Lead in 2009."