Who Knew? Israeli Security Fence Part of Region-Wide Trend
The map of security fences shown above is a slightly modified version of what appeared in an article published by Bloomberg News.
Israel has been vilified for building a security barrier (mostly fence, with walls in urban areas) to keep terrorists emanating from Palestinian enclaves in the West Bank and Gaza from infiltrating into Israeli communities to carry out attacks.
Anti-Israel activists on university campuses, in church conclaves and in the media refer to Israel’s barrier as the “apartheid wall” pretending that its main purpose is to keep Palestinians penned in to so-called “bantustans”, when in reality it was a last-choice solution to stem escalating terrorism against Israeli civilians.
Well, it turns out that while Israel’s barrier may be an unforgivable offense to those whose vantage point is hundreds or thousands of miles away from the danger, in the region itself, security fences have become commonplace, stretching thousands of miles along insecure borders.
An article appearing on Bloomberg News Web site, provides maps and a chronology of fence building in the region. It turns out that the first and still longest security fence was built by Morocco. After 9-11-2001, Saudi Arabia and others followed suit. Even terrorist-flagship Iran has built a fence to keep out unwanted visitors from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
At the UN and among activists in the West, only Israel’s fence is seen as a problem though. For the others, protecting oneself from terrorist infiltration is ample justification.
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