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Judging Israel

[Chicago Tribune] William Choslovsky - What kind of country would construct high walls, ditches, blockades and checkpoints and use sophisticated surveillance and armed border patrols to keep two people divided? The U.S. is building a 2,000-mile fortress with Mexico. Israel's still incomplete 300-mile divide between itself and its Palestinian "neighbors" is puny in comparison. Both work. As the U.S. Department of Justice reported, after we increased border security, alien arrests fell to 25-year lows near San Diego. Crime rates fell more than 40% in border towns like Nogales, Ariz. Our enhanced, beefed-up divide was originally a Clinton administration initiative. Imagine what we would build - or do - if instead of trying to take a job, those on the other side were trying to take our lives. Imagine what we would do if people 10 miles away lobbed rockets each day at our children and "taught" their children with textbooks that have maps that omit our country. Imagine what we would do if instead of suffering one terrorist attack since 2001, almost 20,000 were attempted against our people. Viewed in this light, I ask, what took Israel so long?
2009-10-02 08:00:00
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