Although some claim Israel has scored diplomatic points with the disengagement, it doesn't seem to have made much impression on John Dugard, the UN's "special rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967."

In a new report that the Jerusalem Post calls "a damning indictment of Israel's policies in the territories," Dugard declares that: "The construction of the wall, the expansion of settlements and the de-Palestinization of Jerusalem are incompatible with the two-state solution."

The only option left, he writes, is to do away with Israel: "Interlocutors within both Israel and the West Bank warned the special rapporteur that with the two-state solution becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, consideration should be given to the establishment of a binational Palestinian state. The demography of the region increasingly points to such an outcome."...

...in "Tear Down Israel's Wall"-an article Dugard published in the International Herald Tribune on August 2, 2003, that was appreciatively posted by Al-Jazeera-he asserted that "the wall or fence being built to separate Israel and Palestine is fast becoming the principal obstacle in the way of peace in the Middle East." He further claimed that "what we are presently witnessing in the West Bank is a visible and clear act of territorial annexation under the guise of security"-still unconvinced, by August 2003, that there was anything genuine about Israel's security concerns.

On October 7, 2003, the South African Muslim site mediareviewnet.com-which openly glorifies Palestinian terrorism-honored the rapporteur with a piece called "SA Academic Dugard Slams Israel." The author approvingly cites Dugard's view that the "massive Wall, ostensibly built as a security measure, will fail to deter 'suicide bombers' because most suicide and car bombs pass into Israel through shoddy checkpoints"-even though the fence has proved highly effective against the bombers, who are very real despite the scare quotes...