Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Wall

No, this isn’t about the Floyd-album, but about real walls. Wasn’t it only last year that we commemorated the fall of the Berlin Wall? Every person that’s a little older than 18 years will forever remember the pictures of that concrete structure with all the graffiti on it, either from seeing it in real life or from pictures and TV. It was generally assumed that walls like that are history now, belonging to other times where we tried to separate people by artificial structures like the Berlin Wall. But have a look at this picture:

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This isn’t an historical picture, people are still building this wall in Israel. This is the wall that is being built all around the Westbank to ‘protect’ Israel from terrorist attacks. Israel has been condemned for building this wall by the International Court of Justice. But this doesn’t have ANY effect on the attitude of Israel towards the surrounding countries: they want ANOTHER WALL now, across the border with Egypt. Reason: they want to stop the influx of immigrants, mainly christian immigrants.

So after keeping out the Palestinians, they’ll concentrate on christians now. Kinda strange, no? After all, Israel does only exist because of all the jewish immigrants who arrived illegally over there and started to settle in Palestine. To not mention the boundaries of their territorry they established illegally in 1968. Curious how the US will react this time, they are kinda christian.