(05-30-2018, 07:56 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(05-30-2018, 07:23 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: I gave an estimate. It's probably closer to 100%.  Your "reports" are clearly lying. The success of a physical barrier in Israel is proof of that.

Israel also has a disproportionately huge military presence, shoot on sight policies, a history of human rights abuses, zero civil liberties for anyone not born Israeli, and the type of ego that can only come from almost 70 years of state sponsored terrorism being sanctioned by a sympathetic West. They're a great role model if your goal is a country motivated by xenophobia and zionism with the illusion of "elections" every few years.

I agree with you that Israel's wall is a terrible metaphor.  The main reasons are that Israel controls both sides of the wall, and they intend to harm commerce between the two sides.  We would only have the military on one side of our wall, and we still intend to do a lot of trading and tourism with Mexico.

You didn't need to say more than that.  I made these arguments without needlessly criticizing Israel and needlessly starting another argument.  You could have as well.  This is a thread about walls, not Middle East peace plans.

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