Jonathan Tobin
Contentions/Commentary
09 December 09
In the past few years, Israel’s security fence has become a major tourist attraction for leftist protesters appalled at the Jewish state’s chutzpah in erecting an obstruction against the Palestinian suicide bombers. The fence has been a major success and an integral factor in the defeat of the Palestinian terror offensive dubbed the second intifada, which took the lives of more than 1,000 Israelis earlier in the decade.
But those who want to demonstrate against barriers to keep the Palestinians from wreaking havoc on the region need not go to Israel these days. According to Haaretz, “Egypt has begun the construction of a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip.” The wall will be 10 kilometers long and will be made of slates of steel reaching 20 to 30 meters deep.
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Too bad Israel didn't come up with a steel wall first! Steel can't be breached - you can't burn it, you can't ram it, and if you throw a grenade against it the schrapnel will riccochet. It's brilliant.
ReplyDeleteHow much steel do they have in Israel, I wonder? I do believe that separation barrier could use a little "reconstruction."