Israel is planning on erecting a fence along parts of the 266-kilometer border with Egypt - from the port city of Eylat on the Red Sea to the Gaza strip. Egypt has reacted with remarkable indifference. "It is an Israeli affair," foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki has said.
Senior foreign affairs correspondent Bernard Hammelburg explains the reasoning behind the building of this fence and what it means for the thousands of Sudanese asylum-seekers who enter Israel via Egypt every year in an attempt to flee the Darfur region.
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All in all, you are just a brick in the wall... Here we see the ghetto mentality of the Jewish State. Understandable after thousands of years being hated in all countries around the world they were mostly walled in to protect them from worse. This must have led to a mentality that only walls can bring them security. Calling Israel a democracy is a bad joke. Arab Israelis are discriminated against, as well as dark skinned Jews from Africa. How can a country be based upon a religion being democratic? People of other religions can have little or no say. The systematic extermination of the Gaza people, who were or are all original inhabitants of the land does not show much of a democratic ideology.
Every word is a preconceived judgment.
Thijs Westerbeek van Eerten, is more concerned about the wall than the Israelis and Egyption governments. He seems to be disappointed that their is no public outcry against Israel!! Thijs Westerbeek van Eerten, it is easy as a journalist to criticise governing bodies. What would you do as the Prime Minister of Israel, to check infiltration of drugs, fake currency, weapons and refugees?
Westerbeek is writing his opinion and not newsworthy news. He stated "Egypt has reacted with remarkable indifference." His statement is not a quote from somone else but his alone. But, for some unknown reason, I believe his statement about Egypt was meant to show a 180 degree turn from Egypt's previous stance against Israel's past responses against Hamas; therefore, showing a remarkable indifference to Israel to Israel's newest stance. { RNW's reporters (not all) are not objective ("expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations") in their reporting of newsworthy events. Their writing style is a hybrid style of journalism called " a Dutch-European perspective" that allows the truth to be slightly twisted in order to appease the powers to be. Westerbeek, you might want to emulate Rob's style of journalism and forget about appeasing those with whom you work closely by not writing opinions about Israel. Jewish people really aren't bad folks!
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