The Forum for the Protection of Likud Values, a Jewish Leadership-backed group, has begun a campaign within the Likud to sign up members of the Central Committee in favor of freezing construction on the security fence. They argue that the controversial partition, a series of walls, ditches, fences and other means that physically divides most of the Shomron from the rest of Israel, will aggravate the security situation within pre-1967 Israel. Instead of deterring terrorism, the group argues, the new "border" rewards the terrorists by giving them the physical semblance of a border with Israel. The Forum demands that Foreign Minister Netanyahu retract his statements in support of the fence.