Doing violence to history
William Jacobson hangs up the argument that Israel's One can quibble over the best path for the barrier, and the Israelis argue among themselves over the proper path. But to compare the Israeli barrier to the Berlin wall does violence to history.Indeed. Read the whole thing.
The Israelis built a wall for protection from people who wanted to kill them. The East Germans built a wall to oppress and control their own people.
In yet another futile publicity stunt, some Palestinians tore down a piece of the wall on November 9, to gain some press coverage off of the Berlin celebrations. And the fools who cheer them on do more damage to the peace process than any wall ever could, by perpetuating the false Palestinian narrative of perpetual victimhood.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:00 AM
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Israel's fence was built to keep out homocide bombers. The East German wall was built to keep people in a country they didn't want to live in. There would be no need to separate Arabs and Jews if the Palestinians accepted Israel's existence. That day though remains far off and there in a fact a need to complete the fence and not to demolish it.
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