Since there are so many idiots out there who cannot tell the difference between the Berlin Wall and Israel’s security fence, here’s a handy guide to tell the difference. This post is dedicated to the anti-Semitic morons like Steve Bell, who definitely need it.
| Berlin Wall | Security Fence | |
|---|---|---|
| Built to keep people inside Communist East Germany | Built to keep terrorists outside of Israel | |
| 3.5 million Germans escaped from Communist East Germany prior to building the wall | 75% of suicide bombers came from areas that were not barricaded at all prior to building the fence | |
| 200 Germans died trying to escape over the wall | 293 Israelis died in terrorist attacks prior to building the fence | |
| Wall was torn down in 1989 as the Soviet Union was dying | Fence was erected in 2003 as Israelis were dying | |
| After the wall fell, Germany was reunified | 11 months after the fence was begun, terrorist attacks dropped by more than 90% | |
| Terrorist leaders declared that the fence made terror attacks harder to carry out | ||
| There has not been a successful suicide bombing attack carried out across the security fence |
I know it’s really difficult telling the difference between a wall that was built to prevent civilians from being murdered, and a wall that was built to keep civilians from escaping their miserable lives in Communist East Germany, but somehow, people should just slog through and figure out a way to tell the difference. Or they can just draw anti-Semitic cartoons that would be at home in the pages of Der Sturmer, which find their way now into the pages of British mainstream newspapers and magazines (among others).
Master of Juvenile Scorn indeed.
Why, thank you. [blush]
You got the numbers wrong, there were much more than 293 dead Israelis.
Click the link. It’s attacks originating from places that were unprotected by the fence. Current number of dead Israelis from the same places: Zero.