اسحاق رابین، نخستوزیر اسرائیل از ۱۹۹۲ تا ۱۹۹۵، اولین کسی بود که از ایجاد یک مانع فیزیکی بین اسرائیلیها و فلسطینیها دفاع کرد. پس از بمبگذاری انتحاری بیت لید در سال ۱۹۹۵ که منجر به کشته شدن ۲۲ اسرائیلی شد، رابین گفت جدایی برای محافظت از اکثر یهودیان اسرائیل در برابر تروریسم فلسطینی ضروری است.[۱۴]ایهود باراک، نخستوزیر از سال ۱۹۹۹ تا ۲۰۰۱، اظهار داشت که «حصارهای خوب همسایگان خوبی از آب درمیآورند.» این مفهومِ تبدیل شده به سیاست یا پارادایم از اولین باری که طرح شده بر گفتمان و بحث سیاسی و فرهنگی اسرائیل تسلط داشتهاست.[۳][۱۵]
منتقدان سیاست هفردا را به آپارتاید مرتبط میدانند، و دیگران استدلال میکنند که کلمه "هفرادا" "شباهت قابل توجهی" با استفاده از این اصطلاح در آفریقای جنوبی دارد.[۱۷]
↑According to the Milon and Masada dictionaries, hafrada translates into English as "separation", "division", "disengagement", "severance", "disassociation" or "divorce". Milon: English Hebrew Dictionary
↑Smith & Cordell 2013, p. 25: "The Hebrew term Hafrada is the official descriptor of the policy of the Israeli Government to separate the Palestinian population in the territories occupied by Israel from the Israeli population, by means such as the West Bank barrier and the unilateral disengagement from those territories. The barrier is thus sometimes called gader ha'hafrada (separation fence) in Hebrew. The term Hafrada has striking similarities with the term apanheid, as this term mean 'apartness' in Afrikaans and Hafrada is the closest Hebrew equivalent."
↑Undoing and Redoing Corpus Planning, Michael G. Clyne, p.403, "In the Language of "us" and "them" we could have expected an undoing when an integrative policy of the two communities was introduced. Obviously the [Peace] Process moves in the opposite direction: separation. Actually, one of the most popular arguments use by the government to justify its policy is the "danger" ("the demographic bomb", "the Arab womb") of a "bi-national state" if no separation is made: the Process is thus a measure taken to secure the Jewish majority. The term ‘separation’ ‘’hafrada’’ has become extremely popular during the Process referring to fences built around Palestinian autonomous enclaves, to roads pave in the Territories exclusively for Israelis to the decrease of the number of Palestinians employed in Israel or allowed to enter into it altogether. The stereotypes of the Palestinian society as backward" have not changed either."