Israel to build surveillance fence along Egyptian border?!!

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Permalink Reply by Harry Naio on January 11, 2010 at 23:39

I take the view that walls and barricades to keep people out is a medieval approach that worked at Krak De Chevaliers but has been proven to be out dated by similar plans by the US along their border with Mexico, potential illegal immigrants have nothing to loose and will no doubt resort to increasingly novel ways of getting in to their destination.

Israel is wrong to take this action, they have a habit of just building large walls when faced with a problem that a massive military over-reaction can't solve. It is Israel's duty to accommodate political refugees at least temporarily as they are a developed nation. That said Israel doesn't often stick with such trivialities as international laws and agreements.

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Permalink Reply by Mya Goschalk on January 25, 2010 at 20:50

Speaking as a British Jew with much of my family living in Israel it is perhaps easier for me to empathise with the Israelis. With a history of anti-semitism stretching back hundreds of years, terrorist organisations striking from almost every front, and extreme anti-zionist religious Jews occupying and causing more and more trouble in Jerusalem, it is difficult not to feel protectionist.

However this obviously does not justify some of Israel's decisions, and in saying this, it potentially makes it even more essential that the Israelis accept asylum seekers into Israel. Furthermore, building barricades and walls in the archaeic manner that Harry describes will definitely cause more sceptism and mistrust towards Israel than already exists, and MUST be avoided in order to help accelerate towards peace in the Middle East. But that, my friends, is a whole other issue...

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Permalink Reply by Edward Sainsbury on February 2, 2010 at 17:25

'where there is a will, there's a way...' - if the migrants want to get into Israel enough they'll find a way - what have they got to lose?????

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Permalink Reply by Branden Walmsley on February 2, 2010 at 18:22

I think that Israil is right to put it up because they cant keep up with the number of people crossing the borders

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Permalink Reply by Harry Naio on February 2, 2010 at 22:20

That still doesn't justify the construction of a border fence, there are more intelligent ways to deal with immigration, such as helping to improve prospects in the nations from which the immigrants arrive or preventing maltreatment and despotism to curb push factors

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Permalink Reply by Mya Goschalk on February 3, 2010 at 18:22

Although Israel can and should help asylum seekers conditions once they reach Israel, it definitely is not Israel's responsibility to 'curb push factors'. Israel along with other countries should try to help those mistreated in their home countries but they cannot stop it completely from happening and therefore it is extremely difficult to deal with immigration in this way.

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Permalink Reply by Harry Naio on February 3, 2010 at 18:26

every country has the responsibility to curb push factors, not just Israel, and definitely not unilaterally, it needs to be a joint effort by the UN or EU

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