Nadene Goldfoot
Like the poet, Robert Frost said, "Good fences make good neighbors." Israel has been in the doghouse for having built fences, however. There is an excellent reason for building them that other countries also in the act of building do not have. It's to save the lives of Israelis from the many radicals that intend to kill them. Not many countries have this reason for building their fences. The "Good Neighbor Fence" between Israel and Lebanon has been there doing it's job. I drove to it several times between 1980 and 1985. That's when Major Hadad, head of the Christian militia of Lebanon and Israel were good friends and he helped to patrol the border. His R &R time was spent in our army hospital many a time.
The United States is building fences along the border of Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants who have been taking advantage of the ease in gaining entrance. There is no other way to prevent incursions into Israel other than shooting to kill. This is a far better way. I'm sure other countries would use death, it's so much cheaper.
There are checkpoints in Israel along the fences, some of which are cement. Many explosive belts from suicide bombers were found. This has cut down the attacks and the population feels much safer. Usually schools have been a goal of these attackers. They've had no hang-ups in who they kill inside Israel.
Jews actually have bad memories of being really fenced in, which the Palestinians are not. The fences are not locking them in, just keeping the path closest to citizens blocked so it's not so easy to kill them. Back in Italy in about 1179 the Vatican issued the edict to keep Jews in ghettos, and they really were locked in at night. Thus, this turned out to be the beginning of keeping us in one place. If it wasn't for our strict kosher laws of cleanliness, we would have died out long ago. Russia had the same idea which resulted to keeping Jews in "the Pale of Settlement." We weren't allowed inside Russia proper without special conditions accompanied by special passes. We never on any occasion wanted access to the rest of the world like other people had with the idea of killing anyone. It was just normal reasons like business, touring, buying, and visiting that Jews would have liked to be able to do that was denied to them.
So don't lecture us on not treating people fairly! Our whole religion involves such things. We don't dwell on what happens to us when we are dead but when we are alive. Judaism is a religion of Life, L'Chaim! The old adage, we'll treat you fairly and you treat us fairly still exists. The one thing we won't do is get down to the level of our adversaries, though.
Resource: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4227342,00.html
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2000/issue3/jv4n3a2.html
Like the poet, Robert Frost said, "Good fences make good neighbors." Israel has been in the doghouse for having built fences, however. There is an excellent reason for building them that other countries also in the act of building do not have. It's to save the lives of Israelis from the many radicals that intend to kill them. Not many countries have this reason for building their fences. The "Good Neighbor Fence" between Israel and Lebanon has been there doing it's job. I drove to it several times between 1980 and 1985. That's when Major Hadad, head of the Christian militia of Lebanon and Israel were good friends and he helped to patrol the border. His R &R time was spent in our army hospital many a time.
There are checkpoints in Israel along the fences, some of which are cement. Many explosive belts from suicide bombers were found. This has cut down the attacks and the population feels much safer. Usually schools have been a goal of these attackers. They've had no hang-ups in who they kill inside Israel.
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| Israel border that is saving their lives; up to keep out Palestinian terrorists |
Resource: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4227342,00.html
http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2000/issue3/jv4n3a2.html
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