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Israel to build surveillance fence along Egyptian border?!!

So I found this story in the Guardian today, what do you guys think about this?Is this wrong?

"Israel is to build a fence equipped with advanced surveillance tools along part of its border with Egypt to keep out African migrants and illegal workers.

The two-year project will cost around 1bn shekels (£170m) and is intended to challenge the increasing number of migrants trying to cross into Israel from Egypt's Sinai desert. Israeli police say between 100 and 200 African migrants arrive every week. Some come for work, others to escape political persecution. Some are jailed, many are simply turned back."

Guardian 11/01/10

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/11/israel-fence-egypt

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