Israel’s Response To Rocket Attacks: Close Boarders

by Eric on July 1, 2008

In response to yesterday’s rocket attack, the fouth such since Israel and Hamas entered into a truce, Israeli officials again closed all Gaza boarder crossings.

Sounds good to me.  But what do when do when they fire rockets and the boarders are already closed?  What do you all think.  Please let us know in the comments.

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Eric Eric is the founder and editor of IsraelSituation.com. He has been to Israel many times including a semester at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the former president of the Israel advocacy group at the University of Colorado and teaches about Israel and the Media at a local religious school.

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  • Aryeh Amihay

    I actually think that the Wall, the blockades, the checkpoints and other limits on transportation and movement play a role in increasing the violence.

    Contrast the violence that hasn’t ceased since October 2008 with the short-lived 1980′s intifada, and with the riots of Israeli Palestinians, that also dies soon enough.

    For more details, see:

    http://mostlyonisrael.blogspot.com/2008/02/tear-down-this-wall.html

    http://mostlyonisrael.blogspot.com/2008/06/with-stillborn-palestinian-state-in-its.html

    http://cafe.themarker.com/view.php?t=449621

  • Eric

    Though it would be great to have open boarders, the security fence has been fairly effective. Terrorist attacks almost vanished with the exception of rocket attacks, which come from outside of the boarder. (I know there have been exceptions, but it is too much to be a coincidence.)

  • Aryeh Amihay

    The argument that the Wall has been effective does not stand to reason.
    When there is an attack, we are told it is because there are breaches in the wall, when there is quiet we are told it is because of the wall. I hope you can see the obvious fallacy in such argumentation.

    What has diminished terrorism is the vast amount of checkpoints. However, those are simply overkill. I don’t see anyone in the US suggesting such checkpoints in Baltimore or Detroit to diminish crime, though they would be just as effective. Why should the West BAnk be any different?

  • Eric

    But crime in Detroit comes from Americans living in Detroit, not Canadians.

    They say that terrorism comes from a breach in the fence, that is because it is not a wall, which would be super expensive and looked on as inhumane (which I don’t understand the difference, but I don’t work for some anti-Semetic group like Amnesty International.

    I would rather a fence with occasional breaches than a free for all.

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