Posted on 08/17/2004 4:21:46 PM PDT by me_newswire
EU to build wall after blasting Israel's
WorldNetDaily.com-- (08/17/04)
'European hypocrisy is as rank as it is blatant'
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.
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.
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.
"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?"
Israel's publicly traded Magal Security Systems, which participated in the construction of the West Bank security fence, is expected to sign a cooperation agreement for building the new EU fence and its attendant command-and-control systems.
The ultimate contract is estimated to be worth several hundred million dollars. Each kilometer of Israel's fence cost $1 million to build. Bases, sophisticated transit points, and observation and command-and-control systems cost $2 million per kilometer.
In July, the U.N.'s high court ruled Israel's security fence, which is credited with keeping suicide bombers out, violates international law and must be dismantled.
The court, which Israel maintains has no jurisdiction over Israeli matters, ruled "[it] is not convinced that the specific course Israel has chosen for the wall was necessary to attain its security objectives."
A week later, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding that Israel comply with the world court decision and tear down the security fence. Most European countries voted against Israel.
"European hypocrisy is as rank as it is blatant," Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, told WorldNetDaily. "And the EU wall is not even for security reasons, just economic ones."
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'European hypocrisy is as rank as it is blatant'
Just like the anti gun celebrities......who have their own armed security detachment.
This is a spoof, right?
So it's ok if they are just migrants but not if they are wearing bombs? Hey we could do something the EU approves of by building one on our southern boarder.
From yer pal, the non-Dispensationalist "Christian Zionist" (albeit always in that order -- I'm not above criticizing Israeli discrimination against "Jews for Jesus", etc., either), OP
Hypocrites.
This is a joke, right?
wow...do you remember hadrian's wall and the great wall of china...
You are correct: rank hypocrisy....but...I am convinced that in the EU/Israel debate it is anti-Semitism masked as anti-Zionism
Doubt it. He was still pretty young, then, y'know.
Exactly what I thought. But then, it does appear to be on the WND web site. Unless they were spoofed and did not check out the source.
Agreed. Protection of Private Property is one of the Government's only legitimate functions. Illegal immigrants (whether potential terrorists or, as is far more likely, not) are by definition Trespassers.
There's only some 5,000 miles of Border, no? Assuming a million dollars a mile ($200 per foot!! Which seems to me ample for some electrified fence, motion sensors, and some Nat'l Reserve guys in a pre-fab with coffee, jeeps and rifles every few miles), it'd be a bargain at $5 billion out of a $2 Trillion dollar budget.
Being a Government project, I suppose that the costs would inevitably overrun -- but still not enough for a Federal Budgeteer to even sneeze at.
You are correct: rank hypocrisy....but...I am convinced that in the EU/Israel debate it is anti-Semitism masked as anti-Zionism
Quite possibly. And possibly a "guilt complex", too (i.e., "Israel's existence reminds us of how we laid down for the Nazis to do as they wished, and makes us feel bad..."). Maybe a little of both.
Well those Europeans sure know how to build walls, after all they built a wall around the Warsaw Ghetto.
$5 billion is a small price to pay for initial construction. Costs of Border Patrol following that initial construction will probably be more than the fence, but it should be DEFENSE money. The BP should be under the DoD.
However, the BP should not take its manning from the regular, HEAVY war-fighting army. I might see my way to allowing light, and spec ops to practice skills in tracking, apprehension, detection, etc., via brief unit/cohort assignments to the BP.
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This is the result of European countries allowing millions of Islamic Middle Eastern people settle in their countries unchecked. When they turned out en masse in every European capitol two years ago the continent crapped its collective pants and waved a figurative white flag. Now the Arabs aren't isolated in their ongoing war against Israel-they now intimidate Europe (and by extension the EU and Europe's UN faction) to go along or look the other way when it pleases them.
Mr. Sharon, keep building that wall!
How unPC. Don't tell me that the E.U. is afraid of terrorists? Economic reasons my foot.
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Telegraph UK ^ | Jul 26, 2004 | Inigo Gilmore
Posted on 07/27/2004 11:00:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Agreed. What is the first duty of a nation's Army, if not preserving that nation's "Border Integrity"?
However, the BP should not take its manning from the regular, HEAVY war-fighting army. I might see my way to allowing light, and spec ops to practice skills in tracking, apprehension, detection, etc., via brief unit/cohort assignments to the BP.
I'm not sure why National Guard units (on rotation) should not provide the majority of the gross manpower... but that's ultimately academic. The first order of business is getting SOMEONE in Congress to see the virtue of spending a measely 0.5 (zero-point-five!) percent of the Federal Budget on something the Federal Government actually SHOULD be doing (i.e., Border Integrity).
It's a long-term matter, but it will require every congressional candidate to declare himself/herself in favor of a fence and a redesigned DOD with the BP coming under the DOD.
It needs to be spelled out, and it needs doing now.
The Homeland Security Office SHOULD BE that new office that the 9/11 Commission wanted to pull together the intelligence data of the CIA (international), FBI (national), and DIA (Defense Real-time Intel).
President Bush should make the point that he has already done that through the Homeland Security Office. They should relinquish the BP and the Coast Guard to DOD and be a pure information/intelligence clearing house.
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