[ScaniaBoy]

Oh yes, I remember the UN and the EU gettng very upset about the walls/fences around those enclaves....silly me, I was thinking of that other fence.

Surrounded by parallel twenty-foot fences topped with barbed wire, Ceuta looks more like a jail than a city. "Every day, dozens of Guard ships and patrol boats check the coast, while 621 Guardia Civil’s officers and 548 police officers control the shore," explains the spokesperson of the Delegation of the Spanish Government in Ceuta. On September 29, 2005, the border-fence was assaulted by hundreds of migrants simultaneously, grabbing international media attention. Sprayed by Spanish and Moroccan gunfire, eighteen died and more than fifty were injured. Since then, migrants have been continuing to die in Ceuta, even if there are no international reports about it.

I am thinking of a word.....hmmm...yes,....hypocrisy, that's the one.

[ScaniaBoy]

Ping to my post above this!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ScaniaBoy. Seems like Israel should be organizing a blockade-busting armada -- to take humanitarian supplies to the Moroccan jackoffs who are carrying out this siege.

It was the images of empty food markets on the news, and reporters' overblown warnings of possible shortages, that told Spaniards on Thursday that their nation's five-century dispute with Morocco over the sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla, two enclaves on the Mediterranean coast, had reignited... Moroccan activists were blocking food imports into one of the enclaves and promising more action to come... For many in Spain, the snub was yet another in a series of signs that the nation doesn't demand the respect it once did -- and that its status as a global player is crumbling... a month ago, when Morocco's foreign affairs ministry released a statement accusing Spanish authorities of beating five Moroccans who were trying to legally cross Europe's southernmost border through what Rabat calls the "occupied" enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla... unsatisfied with the response... put out four more accusatory statements, including one calling Spanish police "racist."