Israel unveil details of border fence with Egypt

Israeli officials gave details yesterday of the fence they are planning to build along the Egyptian border to thwart migrants and arms smugglers.

The Defence Ministry said two fences would seal about 70 km of Israel’s 270km southern border, with one surrounding the south western border with Gaza, and another protecting the southern town of Eilat. The fences will include radar equipment that will alert the military of intruders. Radar devices and barbed wire will be placed along the rest of the border, though defence experts said the rough desert terrain was unlikely to be used by infiltrators.

“I took the decision to close Israel’s southern border to infiltrators and terrorists. This is a strategic decision to secure Israel’s Jewish and democratic character,” Binyamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister, said. The system is expected to cost about £250 million.

Israel has already built fences around the Gaza Strip, and across its eastern border with Jordan and northern border with Syria and Lebanon. Its most contentious structure has been the separation barrier that intersperses massive concrete walls with a fence encircling Palestinian territories on the West Bank.“Defence against terror activity clearly requires a fence. Good fences make good neighbours,” Israel Defence Minister Ehud Barak said. He noted that only Israel’s western border, along the Mediterranean Sea, did not need to be blocked off.

In meetings last month, defence officials reiterated concern to Mr Barak that al-Qaeda operatives in the Sinai Peninsula were passing intelligence and weapons to Gaza. Israel fears that the terror network will try to infiltrate Israel.

Egypt has also recently started building an underground barrier, aimed at stopping smugglers passing through tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said that his government had no objection to Israel securing its side of the border, as long as the fence was constructed on Israeli territory.

“This is a matter which concerns Israel. This is something which Israel is building inside its territories, so let it be,” he said.

So, firstly, to me, this seems just another way to barricade the Palestinian people inside their little space of area, until Israel is ready to start with another massacre. And now that the U.S has announced they will be storing $800 million in Israel's Military Gear(which you can read about in the next post), this may be sooner than expected.

And Secondly, what happened to Egypt. They used to be Arabs. What, arent they as brave as Iran? Dont they have the freedom of Lebanon? The LionHearts of Palestine? Day By day, they are moving closer and closer to the U.S and Israeli side. Will they be the another zionist in the coming years?