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"Never" is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever. But history proves that walls work. The Roman wall – the Limus(?) – worked for hundreds of years... the GreatChineseWall worked, not forever, but for hundreds of years... the wall in Korea has been working for fity years... the wall between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus is working.... the Berlin Wall worked beautifully.... Unfortunately, the Israeli army insists against all military logic on being present on both sides of the wall. We could formally finish the problem at least in Gaza, in 48 hours, by getting out and building a proper wall. And then of course, if anybody tries to climb over the wall we kill him.
(Originally at http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s511530.htm )
I think there's something to this point, though given HamasAttackOnIsrael2023 it's more complicated.
Interesting counter-arg to the two-state solution : http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16671
See also :
- DonaldTrump famously wants to build a wall to keep out "illegal immigrants" from Mexico.
- Wall to separate Sunnis and Shi'ites in Baghdad (OnIraq): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6577529.stm
- Wall for a divorcing couple : http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/wall.html
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