(February 13, 2019 at 6:20 pm)Lek Wrote: Border enforcement officials support a wall. It's worked very for Israel. It's much easier and efficient to stop them at the border. It's also more humane than chasing people around and deporting them; especially those with families.
Yikes! Dude, you really misunderstand how Jews feel about those walls in Israel. Walls violate our sense of self. Jews spent centuries living in walled off communities. The Zionist dream was to be able to live without walls. The wall between Israel proper and the West Bank was built during a period of war when Israel was subjected to several dozen suicide bombers. The border between Israel and Lebanon/Syria is fenced off because Israel is at war with those countries. The walls in Israel are seen as basically being necessary, but never wanted. Walls exacerbate differences.
Show me the suicide bombers that are coming across the border from Mexico. Otherwise, a wall on our southern border is nothing like the walls in Israel. Why would we want to exacerbate our differences with Mexico? Because that is all that a wall will really do. It will just make our differences with our southern neighbor greater, and the last time that I checked, they were our friends.
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