Wailing walls

 

No, not the Kotel, but the walls between the US and Mexico and between Gaza and Egypt, and the fence between Israel and Occupied Israel.

Why is it that the United States can build a wall along its mostly peaceful border with Mexico and most of the world yawns, but when Israel builds a fence to slow down terrorists' entry into Israel to slaughter its citizens, the world suddenly takes umbrage - how dare Israel prevent terrorists from entering the county to kill and main on a whim?

Egypt builds a wall to keep the Gazans - fellow Arabs - inside Gaza; Egyptian soldiers shot and kill people crossing in either direction. (They also shoot and kill Sudanese trying to escape to Israel for sanctuary.)

Where is the world's condemnation of Egypt?

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The US has hundreds of armed troops stationed along the wall. That's OK with most of the world. The soldiers and Border patrol personnel are there to turn back or apprehend would be illegals and to try to reduce the flow of illicit drugs from Mexico into the US. No question, if there was no market for the illegals and no market for the drugs, there would be no over/around/under the fence excursions from the south.

There is a difference between trying to secure a border because of illegals (usually non-violent peons trying to improve economically) or because drugs are being brought over by "mules" working for a cartel - or to keep gun runners from the States on the north side of the border and trying to secure a border to prevent people sworn to kill your citizens from crossing with bombs and guns.

Unfortunately, the world turns a blind eye to America's wall and an eye filled with hatred for Israel's fence.

The Arabs in Occupied Israel complain that they are inconvenienced by the fence; made to feel inferior by the fence.

They apparently refuse to recognize, to admit, that the fence is there because of their collective actions against Jews and fellow Arabs in Israel. Taking responsibility for their own actions seems to be "anti-Arab" or "anti-Islam."

At the same time that the world condemns the fence, it also condemns Israel's blockade of Gaza and its limitation of good into Gaza from Israel. Yet, it is silent about Egypt doing the same thing.

Indeed, more aid enters Gaza via Israel - actually much supplied by Israel - than via any other entry point.

But the world is blind to this.

Yohanon Glenn
Yohanon.Glenn at gmail dot com