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It didn't used to be this way.
Then Arafat rejected a pretty generous two-state solution, with massive international support from both the Clinton administration and many Arab countries. This then triggered mass rioting, gunfighting, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks, which lasted for years.
This is the point where Israel built the West Bank barrier.
Associating the barrier with "racism" in the sense of "I hate them and don't want them here because they're foreign" and not "We don't want them here because some portion of them blow up busses" is a pretty false dichotomy.