The 240-kilometer-long, $370 million barrier will be part fence and part surveillance technology. The project was announced in January by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "This is a strategic decision to ensure the Jewish and democratic character of the state of Israel," he said.http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/22/israel.egypt.border.barrier/index.html?hpt=T2
It's none of my business, but the utter irony of free and democratic "ghetto-izing" must give everyone pause to wonder "What the heck...?"
From The JewishEncyclopedia.com of "ghetto":
Although the ghettos owed their origin primarily to the intolerance and tyranny of the citizens, yet the Jews themselves must have found it undesirable to live scattered among a hostile population, and must have regarded the ghetto as a place of refuge. Lippmann Heller, rabbi of the community of Vienna, claims credit for having been instrumental in organizing the ghetto of that city; it existed, however, only from 1625 to 1670. The Jews of that time found it in many cases impossible to live together with the Christians.
My point has been that we are tiptoeing into a new age of Fascism, with a renewed anti-Semitism to be the paradigm of our Racist dynamo that powers the new Fascism. In the USA, Arabs are depicted in the manner the Nazis caricatured the Jews. In Europe, all minorities are frowned upon. In Israel, the fact of life is that the Israeli government feels it must separate itself from the neighborhood.
It does not matter how Fascism starts. By reading history books, one gets the impression that the birth of Fascism is a straight-forward and logical process which progresses step by logical step to Dictatorship.
Nonsense. Fascism is born in the welter of everyday life and it morphs along until it finds its way. But its start requires Division, Distrust, and Deception to kick start its era of primitive tyrannical accumulation of evil.
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