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Initially aimed at creating a security fence along the green line, the 1967 borders of Israel, it has gradually stretched across that would-be boundary, confiscating Palestinian land and amounting to a de facto annexation of a large part of the West Bank.
Loyalists will now reiterate their allegiance, while those on the fence are likely to hop on the Xi bandwagon.
Moreover, Sharon now agreed that a security fence, which historically was favored by the Israeli left, would enhance Israel’s defenses.
Recalling her East German upbringing, she said, “I lived a long time behind a fence.
They must be built with the knowledge that no fence, wall, or even an ocean or a continent can truly divide us from the problems of others.
Today’s Israeli and Palestinian leaders are far weaker than their predecessors;Hamas controls Gaza;Iran is more influential; additional settlements and a fence have been built; and the US is bogged down in Iraq and has lost standing throughout the region.
As the embassy was opened, Palestinian residents of Gaza escalated their protests demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to what is now Israel, prompting Israeli soldiers to kill at least 62 demonstrators and wound more than 1,500 others at the Gaza boundary fence.
And the “security fence,” which was to allow for unilateral separation, may hold back suicide bombers but not modern missiles of the kind currently employed by Hezbollah.
Moreover, the Hungarian-Serbian border fence and Hungary’s ever-tightening controls at its border with Romania have also contributed to European stability.
The problem is not quite as bad on my side of the fence.
Hungary opened its borders, hoping that the human tide would flow onward, but then erected a razor-wire fence when it turned out that there were too few welcoming destinations.
In this sense, nuclear weapons facilitate normal international relations, just like a good fence helps build good neighborly relations.
An estimated 30,000 migrants are now crossing the Serbian border into Hungary every month, spurring the country’s right-wing government to launch the construction of a 110-mile fence to keep them out.
But China’s $3.2 trillion problem will become a 20-trillion-renminbi problem if China cannot reduce its current-account surplus and fence off capital inflows.
Palestine romanticism glorifies the Palestinians as the victims of Israel’s rule, points to the treatment of Israeli Palestinians as at best second-class citizens, and cites the many incidents of oppression in the occupied territories, including the effects of Israel’s “security fence.”
The White House Crack-UpWASHINGTON, DC – On both sides of the White House fence, near-nervous breakdowns abound.
On the other side of the White House fence, much of Washington watches the disintegration of a presidency, and even Democrats aren’t taking much joy in it.
Third, on the other side of the fence, the Scottish National Party appears to be attracting a large number of former Labour supporters.
In May, Hungarian reformers began tearing down the fence along their border with Austria – a hole in the Iron Curtain.
About 3,000 people flee the country every day, often risking their lives when crossing the crocodile-infested Limpopo River – celebrated in Kipling’s tale of “How the Elephant Got Its Trunk” – and scaling a border fence to enter South Africa.
Hungary announced that it would build a fence on its border with Serbia to keep migrants out.
After all, a fence to protect the deer from the lions is the same as a fence to keep the lions away from the deer.
With underwriting on the trading side of the fence, the deposit bank could still supply the service to customers, but as a broker, not as a dealer.
To be sure, the success of this approach depends on the fence staying strong.
But why did Obama fence himself in with such rhetoric in the first place?
A large part of the Syrian population – the middle class in Damascus and Aleppo, the Christians, and other minorities – are passive or sitting on the fence, worried that the alternative to the status quo is chaos, civil war, and possibly a radical Islamist takeover.
Netanyahu thinks that he can build a fence and let the problem simply fester forever.
Such demands escalated dramatically after Hariri’s death, as tens of thousands of the former prime minister’s partisans, who previously sat on the fence when it came to Syria, shouted “Syria out.”
The SPD will recoil at the prospect, sit on the fence, and finally give in, because Merkel has a powerful disciplinary instrument: she could call a new election, in which the CDU would probably win an outright majority.
Clearly, Israel would simply not be able to remain on the fence if chaos in a neighboring country threatened to become a permanent menace to its security.
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