Israel Security Fence - The Wall of Shame

Terrorism has been defined throughout the international community as a crime against humanity. As such, the state of Israel not only had the right but also the obligation to do everything in its power to lessen the impact and scope of terrorism on the citizens of Israel.

The security fence in an operational concept conceived by the Israeli Defense Establishment in order to reduce the numbers of terrorist attacks whether in the form of explosive-rigged vehicles or in the form of suicide bombers who enter into Israel with the intention of murdering innocent babies, children, women and men.

Hypocrisy:

Morocco - Sahara:
The great wall of Morocco known as "the security belt" is a defensive wall of 2720 kms (1690 mi) long. It serves to protect Morocco from hostile intentions of Polisario.

Pakistan - Afghanistan:
Pakistan built a 2400 kms (1490 mi)barrier to separate itself from Afghanistan.

India - Pakistan:
As well India built its 3300 kms (2050 mi) wall to separate itself from neighboring Pakistan.

South Korea - North Korea:
South Korea protects itself from North Korea with a barrier of 250 kms (154 mi).

Saudi Arabia - Yemen:
Saudi Arabia built 1770 kms (1100 mi) concrete wall with sophisticated electronic monitoring devices. The wall is intended to prevent Yemenite infiltration into the country. The barrier costs over 700 million dollars. Little matters the anger of local Yemenite tribes denouncing the reduction of Yemenite territory by 7 kms (4 mi).

(and Iraq)
As well Saudi Arabia erects a 900 kms (500 mi) ultra modern barrier on its border with Iraq.

Turkey (Cyprus):
Turkey claims part of the island of Cyprus and delimits that territory by a barrier of 300 kms. (187 mi)

Thailand - Malaysia:
Since 2007, Thailand erected a 75 kms (46 mi) barrier along its most accessible border with Malaysia. According to Bangkok, its purpose is to prevent southern troubled provinces Muslim terrorists from entering the northern part of the country.

Uzbekistan - Tajikistan:
Uzbekistan erected a closure of 1283 kms (797 mi) along its border with Tajikistan.

United Arab Emirates - Oman:
United Arab Emirates are in the process of building 410 kms (255 mi) barrier on their border with Oman.

Kuwait - Iraq:
Kuwait reinforces the exiting 215 kms (134 mi) structure along its border with Iraq.

United States - Mexico:
What about United States?
What about Obama and his speech in Cairo?
What about this land of liberty and the Mexican border?
The 3360 kms (2087 mi) length wall between United states and Mexico is being erected to protect the U.S from Mexicans who try to enter illegally the country in order to escape poverty and misery.

And what about Europe?
Always so ready to condemn certain others?

Spain - Ceuta and Melilla
Spain of Javier Solana and Moratinos erected an electrified barrier of 11 kms (7 mi) guarded continuously by soldiers at Melilla, as well at its border with Ceuta, The fence's long 11 (7 mi) kms and consists of parallel 3-metre (10-foot) fences topped with barbed wire, with regular watchposts and a road running between them to accommodate police patrols or ambulance service in case of need. Underground cables connect spotlights, noise and movement sensors, and video cameras to a central control booth; dozens of Guard ships and patrol boats check the coast, while 621 Guardia Civil’s officers and 548 police officers control the shore.

It serve to protect Spain from illegal Moroccan and sub Saharan workers who try to enter its territory to escape famine.

Ireland (Belfast)
There are also the famous "walls of Ireland", length of 0.5 kms (0.310 mi), where for over thirty years, Catholic and Protestants desire to be separated from each other. For this, roads have been cut in order to end the throwing of stones, Molotov cocktails, hand grenades and various other projectiles. Entire areas of Belfast have been disfigured, homes destroyed and residents ex-pulsed in total general international indifference.

BUT THE ONLY WALL CALLED "THE WALL OF SHAME" IS THE ONE BUILT BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL!!!

For Israel however the benefit of such wall is without question:
Between 2002 and 2008, the number of victims of suicide bomb attacks on its soil has fallen from 451 to 7. This fall of 98.5% (!!!) does not of course apply at Eilat, nor Dimona, nor along the Judean desert as these areas are not yet enclosed in the security barrier.

It is more legitimate to build a wall in order to protect oneself from immigrants living in poverty and misery than to do it in order to prevent the entering of TERRORIST, SUICIDE BOMBERS?

I let you, Mr. Obama, Mr. Solana, Mr. Moratinos and all your colleagues answer this question. It is quite rhetorical, I must admit.

Here is the complete list of all the barrier walls around the world:

Name: Baghdad Wall
Country: Adhamiya, Iraq
Type: Civil pacification
Year: (Under construction)
Length: 5 kms (3 mi)

Name: Belfast Peace Lines
Country: United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
type: Civil pacification
Year: 1970s -early
Length: 0.500 kms (average) - (0.310 mi)

Name: Botswana/Zimbabwe
Country: Botswana and Zimbabwe
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2003
Length: 500 kms (310 mi)

Name: Brunei/Limbang
Country: Brunei and Limbang
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2005
Length: 20 kms (12 mi)

Name: Ceuta border fence
Country: Spain
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2001
Length: 11 kms

Name: Melilla border fence
Country: Spain
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 1998
Length: 11 kms

Name: China/Hong Kong
Country: China
Type: Internal barrier
Year: 1960s -early
Length: 32 kms (20 mi)

Name: China/Macau
Country: China
type: Internal barrier
Year: 1870
Length: 0.340 km (0.211 mi)

Name: China/North Korea
Country: China and North Korea
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: (Under construction)
Length: 1,416 kms (879 mi)

Name: Egypt-Gaza barrier
Country: Egypt
Type: Anti-terrorism and anti-illegal immigration
Year: 1979, + subterranean barrier (under construction)
Length: 3.071 kms (2 mi)

Name: Sharm el-Sheikh
Country: Egypt
type: Anti-terrorism
Year: 2005
Length: 20 kms (12 mi)

Name: Malaysia-Thailand border
Country: Thailand and Malaysia
Type: Anti-terrorism
Year: Proposed
Length: 650 kms (403 mi)

Name: Indo-Bangladeshi barrier
Country: India
Type: Anti-illegal immigration and Anti-Terrorism
Year: Under construction
Length: 3,268 kms (2041 mi)

Name: Indo-Burma barrier
Country: India
type: Anti-Drug smuggling and Anti-Terrorism
Year: Under construction
Length: 1,624 kms (1009 mi)

Name: Indian Kashmir barrier
Country: India
Type: Anti-terrorism (disputed territory)
Year: 2004
Length: 550 kms (341 mi)

Name: Iran-Pakistan barrier
Country: Iran and Pakistan
Type: Anti-drug smuggling
Year: Under construction
Length: 700 kms (434 mi)

Name: Israeli West Bank barrier
Country: Israel - West Bank
Type: Anti-terrorism (disputed territory)
Year: Under construction
Length: 650 kms (403 mi)

Name: Kazakh-Uzbekistan barrier
Country: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Type: Anti-drug smuggling
Year: 2006
Length: 45 kms (28 mi)

Name: Korean Wall
Country: North Korea and South Korea
Type: Conflict zone
Year: 1953
Length: 248 kms (154 mi)

Name: Kruger National Park
Country: South Africa and Mozambique
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 1975
Length: 120 kms (74 mi)

Name: Kuwait-Iraq barrier
Country: Kuwait and Iraq
Type: Conflict zone
Year: 1991
Length: 193 kms (120 mi)

Name: Pakistan-Afghanistan barrier
Country: Pakistan
Type: Anti-terrorism
Year: Proposed
Length: 2,400 kms (1491 mi)

Name: Russia - Chechnya barrier
Country: Chechnya (Russia)
Type: Anti-terrorism (disputed territory)
Year: Proposed
Length: 700 (435 mi)

name: Saudi-Yemen barrier
Country: Saudi Arabia and Yemen
type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2004
Length: 1770 kms (1100 mi)

Name: Turkmen - Uzbekistan barrier
Country: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2001
Length: 1,700 kms (1056 mi)

Name: United Arab Emirates-Oman barrier
Country: United Arab Emirates and Oman
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: Under construction
Length: 410 kms (254 mi)

name: United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus
Country: Cyprus and Northern Cyprus
Type: Conflict zone
Year: 1974
Length: 300 kms (186 mi)

Name: United States–Mexico barrier
Country: United States
Type: Anti-illegal immigration and drug smuggling
Year: Under construction
Length: 3,360 (2087 mi)

Name: Uzbek-Afghanistan barrier
Country: Uzbekistan and Afghanistan
Type: Anti-illegal immigration
Year: 2001
Length: 209 kms (130 mi)

Name: Uzbek - Kyrgyzstan (Tajikistan) barrier
Country: Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
Type: Conflict zone
Year: 1999
Length: 1283 kms (797 mi)

Name: Via Anelli Wall
Country: Padua, Italy
Type: Internal barrier
Year: 2006
Length: 0.085 kms (0.05 mi)

Name: Western Sahara, Berm of
Country: Morocco
Type: Conflict zone (disputed territory)
Year: 1987
Length: 2720 kms (1690 mi)





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Egypt has begun the construction of a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, in a bid to shut down smuggling tunnels into the territory. The wall will be nine to 10 kilometers long, and will go 20 to 30 meters into the ground, Egyptian sources said. It will be impossible to cut or melt.

The new plan is the latest move by Egypt to step up its counter-smuggling efforts. Although some progress had been made, the smuggling market in Gaza still flourishes.

Egyptian forces demolish tunnels or fill them with gas almost every week, often with people still inside them, and Palestinian casualties in the tunnels have been steadily rising.

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Recently, Egypt examined several possibilities of blocking the tunnels, and joint American-Egyptian patrols have been seen in Rafah attempting to detect tunnels using underground sensors.

Construction of the wall has already begun. It will be made of enormous slates of steel, reaching deep into the ground. However, it is not expected to stem smuggling completely.

Several defense sources told Haaretz they believe that once captive soldier Gilad Shalit is released, Israel will have to re-examine the benefits of closing Gaza off. The closure has been undermined by the tunnel system, which provides not only munitions but food, cars, motorcycles, drugs, medicine and fuel, much more than what Israel allows into the Strip through the official border crossing.

The tunnels also allow people to cross in and out of the Strip, including terrorists who linked up with pro-Al-Qaida groups in Gaza and tried to carry out attacks in Egypt, defense sources said.

The smuggling industry is so institutionalized that tunnel operators purchase licenses from the Rafah municipality, allowing them to connect to electricity and water. Hamas has also been ensuring no children are employed in the tunnels, and is taxing all smuggled goods.

The Egyptians often intercept munitions before they can enter the Strip and have stepped up checks at internal roadblocks and checkpoints in the Sinai. Observers say mounting American pressure is in part responsible for increasing Egyptian efforts to combat the smugglers.

Israel’s Security Fence

by Mitchell Bard

After scores of suicide bombings and daily terrorist attacks against its civilians that have killed more than 850 people and wounded thousands more since September 2000, Israel’s unity government decided to construct a security fence near the northern part of the pre-1967 “Green Line” between Israel and the West Bank to prevent Palestinian terrorists from infiltrating into Israeli population centers. The project has had the overwhelming support of the Israeli public which sees the barrier as vital to their security.

There is actually nothing new about the construction of a security fence. Many other nations have fences to protect their borders (the United States is building one now to keep out illegal Mexican immigrants). Israel has similar barriers along its borders with Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. In fact, a fence already surrounds the Gaza Strip and not a single suicide bomber has managed to get across the Gaza barrier into Israel. Ironically, after condemning Israel's barrier, the UN announced plans to build its own fence to improve security around its New York headquarters.

Israel is Forced to Act
The Palestinians committed themselves in the Oslo accords and in the road map to dismantle terrorist networks and confiscate illegal weapons. After more than 10 years of negotiations, and a mounting toll of Israeli civilian casualties, however, it became clear to the Israeli people that the Palestinian Authority (PA) made a strategic choice to use terror to achieve its aims and that something had to be done to protect the civilian population.

“It obliges us to establish a barrier wall which is the only thing that can minimize the infiltration of these male and female suicide bombers,” said Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who has emphasized that “the fence is not political, [and] is not a border.”

Some Israelis oppose the fence either because they fear it will constitute a recognition of the 1949 armistice line as a final border. Jews living in the West Bank, beyond the planned route of the fence, in particular, argue that they are now being left relatively unprotected and worry that they might be forced to relocate behind the fence if it does become a political border in the future.

Making Terrorism More Difficult
Before the construction of the fence, and in many places where it has not yet been completed, a terrorist need only walk across an invisible line to cross from the West Bank into Israel. No barriers of any kind exist, so it is easy to see how a barrier, no matter how imperfect, won't at least make the terrorists' job more difficult. Approximately 75 percent ofthe suicide bombers who attacked targets inside Israel came from across the border where the first phase of the fence was built.

During the 34 months from the beginning of the violence in September 2000 until the construction of the first continuous segment of the security fence at the end of July 2003, Samaria-based terrorists carried out 73 attacks in which 293 Israelis were killed and 1950 wounded. In the 11 months between the erection of the first segment at the beginning of August 2003 and the end of June 2004, only three attacks were successful, and all three occurred in the first half of 2003.

Since construction of the fence began, the number of attacks has declined by more than 90%. The number of Israelis murdered and wounded has decreased by more than 70% and 85%, respectively, after erection of the fence.

Even the Palestinian terrorists have addmitted the fence is a deterrent. On November 11, 2006, Islamic Jihad leader Abdallah Ramadan Shalah said on Al-Manar TV the terrorist organizations had every intention of continuing suicide bombing attacks, but that their timing and the possibility of implementing them from the West Bank depended on other factors. “For example,” he said, “there is the separation fence, which is an obstacle to the resistance, and if it were not there the situation would be entirely different.”

The success of the anti-terrorist fence in Samaria means that the launching point for terrorists has been moved to Judea, where there is not yet a continuous fence.



A High-Tech Fence
Although critics have sought to portray the security fence as a kind of "Berlin Wall," it is nothing of the sort. First, unlike the Berlin Wall, the fence does not separate one people, Germans from Germans, and deny freedom to those on one side. Israel's security fence separates two peoples, Israelis and Palestinians, and offers freedom and security for both. Second, while Israelis are fully prepared to live with Palestinians, and 20 percent of the Israeli population is already Arab, it is the Palestinians who say they do not want to live with any Jews and call for the West Bank to be judenrein. Third, the fence is not being constructed to prevent the citizens of one state from escaping; it is designed solely to keep terrorists out of Israel. Finally, only a tiny fraction of the total length of the barrier (less than 3% or about 10 miles) is actually a 30 foot high concrete wall, and that is being built in three areas where it will prevent Palestinian snipers from around the terrorist hotbeds of Kalkilya and Tul Karm from shooting at cars as they have done for the last three years along the Trans-Israel Highway, one of the country's main roads. The wall also takes up less space than the other barriers, only about seven feet, so it did not have a great impact on the area where it was built.

Most of the barrier will be a chain-link type fence similar to those used all over the United States combined with underground and long-range sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles, trenches, landmines and guard paths. Manned checkpoints will constitute the only way to travel back and forth through the fence. The barrier is altogether about 160 feet wide in most places.

The land used in building the security fence is seized for military purposes, not confiscated, and it remains the property of the owner. Legal procedures are already in place to allow every owner to file an objection to the seizure of their land. Moreover, property owners are offered compensation for the use of their land and for any damage to their trees.





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