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The East is knocking, and everyone knows that if no answer comes, they will jump the fence.
The world's high- and middle-income countries should not imagine that the relatively rich can fence themselves off indefinitely from poverty and misery in the poorest countries.
Why not?"Because there is a fence."
If an electric fence was built around the West Bank territory, he continued, two problems could be solved at once.
Such a fence would probably include settlements close to, but inside the 1967 line.
So far as separateness is concerned, it should not be explicitly promoted unless a fence seems to be the only hope of peace.
Tom Sawyer pulled off that business strategy when he persuaded his friends to pay him for the privilege of taking over his hated chore, painting the picket fence.
In 1988, conservationists decided to finance and build an electrified fence to protect an area of the Aberdare National Park bordering smallholder farms.
The fence was designed to prevent intrusion from the human population and degradation of the park’s habitat.
Local farmers welcomed the initiative, which influenced the decision to expand the fence to surround the perimeter of the entire Aberdare range.
For 21 years, the fence around the Aberdares was painstakingly built, supported mainly by Kenya’s corporate sector, individual donors, and innovative fundraising exercises such as the Rhino Charge, an off-road motor event that has captured the Kenyan public’s imagination and annually raises more than $1 million.
But, by the time the fully electrified fence was completed, in 2009, the government, under then-President Mwai Kibaki, had become an essential partner, with the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) deeply involved in the project.
The 45-kilometer Mount Eburu fence was completed last year.
The Mount Kenya fence, at 450 kilometers, will be longer than the Aberdares’ project and is now making rapid progress, with 80 kilometers completed.
Of course, building a fence is just the beginning.
Fences must be managed and maintained (some of the original fence posts in the Aberdares, for example, have had to be replaced), wildlife corridors must be developed, and local communities require support.
All areas are kept under surveillance by air and foot patrols along the fence line – a constant monitoring process with considerable cost implications.
Local communities are involved in all areas of fence and forest maintenance.
The region’s hard-working farmers can now see added value in co-existing with the fence.
Since the completion of the Aberdares fence, the value of local farmers’ land has quadrupled.
If pushed to the wall, Israel might try to extricate itself from an internationally untenable position by unilaterally disengaging from the West Bank up to its “security fence.”
A capacity to fence off a part of one’s life, and to remain sovereign and self-driven within those boundaries, was paramount to the liberal conception of the free agent and his or her relationship with the public sphere.
Israel will complete its defensive security fence and strike back against terrorists and those who fire missiles at Israeli civilian targets.
If the fence followed the 1967 boundary there would be few objections.
The argument against the fence on the West Bank assumes that the settlers are there illegally and therefore are not entitled to the protection of a defensive barrier.
Although it imposes hardships on others, the fence is a plausible means of protection against suicide bombers.
The best argument that the Palestinians could make against the fence is to make it unnecessary by suppressing suicide bombings.
When they do, there will be a very good legal and moral case for the fence to come down.
The legal case for the fence is solid but regrettable.
The fence is not only a physical reminder of the divide between the area's peoples, but also a cause of suffering for innocent Palestinians who are cut off from their fields, their jobs, and their families.
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