The Wall between two countries...

Sir Banagor has an interesting entry regarding the decision by one nation to build a wall to bar individuals from another nation entry. Quick heads up here -- the situation in Israel is not what I am talking about, there _is_ no nation of Palestine. This wall is in Europe. Here is the original story here bq. Just one month after the U.N. and EU launched a furious campaign against Israel's security fence, culminating in the International Court of Justice ruling that the fence is illegal, the EU announced it's planning to build a separation fence of its own, and invited Israel to participate in the construction. bq. The fence is being built to separate recently added EU members Poland and Hungary from their new neighbors � Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The EU said the fence is necessary to "prevent the free movement of migrants seeking to enter" EU territory. bq. Israeli companies that specialize in the construction of fences and security systems will participate in tenders to build hundreds of miles of fences along the EU's new eastern border. bq. "It's incredible the EU has no problem building a fence just to keep illegal immigrants out, but when the Jewish State builds a security fence as a last resort for the purpose of keeping terrorists out and saving Israeli lives, we are blasted by them and the U.N.," a spokesman for Ariel Sharon told WorldNetDaily. "Makes you think, doesn't it?" Here are three paragraphs from Sir Banagor's commentary (click the link to read the entire article) bq. One doesn�t really have to wonder how deep the Eurabians are into appeasement with Arabs to see the hypocrisy in this stance. It isn�t that Europe really cares if Israel builds a fence to save themselves or not, as some would suspect; it all has to do with pleasing the Arab and Islamic world. Naturally, saving Jewish lives isn�t on their agenda � but then again neither is saving any lives after their own skin. Sometimes, observing the actions of Europeans, one could easily be led to believe that they hate Jews. I have written this on so many occasions and I still firmly believe that this is so. But it would appear that their hatred of Jews is no less than their apathy for everyone else in the world, else they would actually take decisive actions to stop the looting, burning, rape, massacres and pillaging in a dozen former Eurabian colonies. bq. Robert Kagan was so eminently correct when he described the Eurabian �Utopian� problems in confrontation with the real world when he pointed out that Europe no longer has the will, nor the power, to stand up on it�s own. Had it been able to, it may still never have intervened in the Bosnian war or in Kosovo without the United States pushing for military action after so many years. I still maintain that Europe has become the quintessential wimp of �multiculturalism� which has invaded every branch of Leftist thinking over the last few decades. But then, when threatened, they act only in their self interest and without ever backing anyone up with similar problems and solutions � especially when others are getting blown up. They would prefer to sell Israel to the dogs of war than to say that they are correct for choosing the security barrier, even though they themselves choose the same solution to their less pressing problems and needs. bq. Europe, naturally, expresses that they are not opposed to the barrier as such, but to the chosen route � conveniently forgetting that they don�t exactly have to defend any of their placid borders from raging madmen with body-bombs and hair-trigger fingers walking through their midst. Were they to experience such a feat of destruction as suicide bombers for Allah in their own towns and cities, one could only imagine the response they would scream for � paid by the United States taxpayer and the blood of American soldiers. It will be interesting to see what happens in Europe in the next ten years or so. Their economy is having problems and their nice cozy socialist program of comfy pensions, short weeks and long vacations is causing further economic hemorrhage as there are fewer and fewer young workers entering the system to pay for this Ponzi Scam. (birth rate is down). To aggravate this, they have been spending very little on their own defense, relying instead on the U.S.A. to provide the bulk of the shield. The fact that we are leaving in the next few years will be a double-hit against their economy -- lost jobs and increased defense spending. And these are intellectual and nuanced people... That'll learn 'em...