(05-30-2018, 09:56 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(05-30-2018, 07:56 PM)TJBender Wrote: 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'd expect an armed presence to enforce the wall, but not a shoot on sight policy (and I don't believe Israel has that either). 

When we discuss large numbers of people illegally crossing the Mexican border we're essentially talking about a foreign invasion force. Don't you think we should defend our country?

The overwhelming majority of Palestinians trying to get into Israel are not looking for a job.

The overwhelming majority of Mexicans trying to get into the US are not trying to blow up Phoenix.

You're taking two very different groups of people, job-seeking immigrants and virgin-seeking jihadists, and applying the same label to them. Israel has a right to defend its borders however it sees fit. Their method of doing so should not be held up as an example to the US, because we don't have neighbors that would really like "their" country back. Generally speaking, Israeli methods of ensuring national security have no place in a modern society outside of Israel.

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