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12th February 2016, 03:54 AM
Netanyahu Wants Fence Around Israel to Keep Out ‘Wild Beasts’ Source: Andrea Germanos
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to encircle his entire country with a fence as protection against “wild beasts,” referring to those in neighboring Arab states.
He made the comments Tuesday while visiting an 18-mile stretch of fence already (http://news.yahoo.com/israel-begins-construction-jordan-border-fence-193646188.html%20) under construction on the Israel-Jordan border.
“At the end of the day, in the State of Israel as I see it, there will be a fence like this one surrounding its entirety,” he said, according to a statement on the Prime Minister’swebsite (http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Events/Pages/eventTour090216.aspx).
“They tell me: Is this what you want to do, defend the villa? The answer is yes. What, are we going to surround the entire State of Israel with a fence, a barrier? The answer is yes, unequivocally. In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts.”
He added that it would be a multi-year project, multi-million dollar project.
“Perhaps the most notorious of Israel’s walls built for ‘security purposes’ runs within the occupied West Bank,” as Al Jazeera reports. It was deemed illegal (http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?pr=71&code=mwp&p1=3&p2=4&p3=6) by the International Court of Justice in 2004.
Haaretz columnist Asher Schechter argues (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.702532) that “Israel is already not even trying to function like a democracy,” and writes that Netanyahu’s statement is “a display of everything wrong with Israel under his leadership. Israel circa 2016 is fearful, hateful, and paranoid, self-involved to a degree even Donald Trump would find distasteful, and soon it might have big walls surrounding it from every which way, quarantining it, and a political system where only Jews need apply.
On Wednesday Netanyahu also spoke to the Israeli parliament and referred (http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-situation-not-ripe-for-two-state-solution/%20http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-situation-not-ripe-for-two-state-solution/) to the existing fence along the border with Egypt, saying that it prevented Israel from being “overrun” with migrants.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to encircle his entire country with a fence as protection against “wild beasts,” referring to those in neighboring Arab states.
He made the comments Tuesday while visiting an 18-mile stretch of fence already (http://news.yahoo.com/israel-begins-construction-jordan-border-fence-193646188.html%20) under construction on the Israel-Jordan border.
“At the end of the day, in the State of Israel as I see it, there will be a fence like this one surrounding its entirety,” he said, according to a statement on the Prime Minister’swebsite (http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Events/Pages/eventTour090216.aspx).
“They tell me: Is this what you want to do, defend the villa? The answer is yes. What, are we going to surround the entire State of Israel with a fence, a barrier? The answer is yes, unequivocally. In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts.”
He added that it would be a multi-year project, multi-million dollar project.
“Perhaps the most notorious of Israel’s walls built for ‘security purposes’ runs within the occupied West Bank,” as Al Jazeera reports. It was deemed illegal (http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/index.php?pr=71&code=mwp&p1=3&p2=4&p3=6) by the International Court of Justice in 2004.
Haaretz columnist Asher Schechter argues (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.702532) that “Israel is already not even trying to function like a democracy,” and writes that Netanyahu’s statement is “a display of everything wrong with Israel under his leadership. Israel circa 2016 is fearful, hateful, and paranoid, self-involved to a degree even Donald Trump would find distasteful, and soon it might have big walls surrounding it from every which way, quarantining it, and a political system where only Jews need apply.
On Wednesday Netanyahu also spoke to the Israeli parliament and referred (http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-situation-not-ripe-for-two-state-solution/%20http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-situation-not-ripe-for-two-state-solution/) to the existing fence along the border with Egypt, saying that it prevented Israel from being “overrun” with migrants.
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