| THE WOEFUL WITLESSNESS OF A WALL Mike Leibowitz 5 July 2002 Israel now hopes a wall will solve its terrorist problem. It won't work! Firstly, anything that enjoys the enthusiastic support of Ben Eliezer, the unlikely defense minster, has to end in disaster! Secondly, The history of border walls as defensive devices shows that they have always been a severe squandering of resources to provide solace to wishful thinking! Let us look at this history: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA It was begun about 200 B.C.E. and reached its peak in the Ming dynasty about eighteen centuries later. Four thousand miles long, it makes the pyramids microscopic in comparison. Its width varies from 17 to 33 feet; and its height,from 25 to 45 feet. The North side extended over in a ledge through which "death holes" were cut in the floor. These allowed the defenders to hit attackers with arrows, spears, and boiling oil, without exposing themselves, so as to make an enemy scaling virtually impossible. However in 1215, Genghis Kahn breached the wall very easily, using the irresistable weapon of bribery. In fact, the wall would succomb to bribery on three major occassions when it was breached by Huns, Mongols and Manchus. China's Great wall epitomizes all defensive border walls in that 1) it failed; and, 2) the resources needed to breach it were microscopic in comparison to the resources needed to build it! HADRIAN'S WALL The emperor Hadrian, to protect Roman settlements in Northern Britain from the raiding Scots and Picts, built a wall from sea to sea in Scotland. It was 20 feet high and 8 feet wide, and connected Roman forts along the route. From the getgo it was a failure. How it was breached was never learned. The excuse was that the raiders just flanked it by using boats. Hadrian's successor Antoninus built a second wall the Antonine Wall from sea to sea 35 miles North of Hadrian's Wall. This additional obstacle did not diminish the raiding. The Romans made no more attempts at wall enhancement, as they continued to endure the raids until quitting England around 400 C.E. MAGINOT LINE Sensing Germany might assault them again, the French sought security behind an impregnable wall. Starting in 1929 and through the great depression, the French spent 29 Billion 1930s dollars building the Maginot Line, a 200 mile obstacle across the route the Germans had to take to enter France(if they didn't take Belgium first). It was a series of concrete tunnels going down 6 stories, topped by heavily armored gun turrets. Fighting on that Line would protect them from the horrors of trench warfare they recalled so well from the World War, and the Line was believed impregnable. Its consumption of resources left the rest of the French defense establishment the leaner. So what! It was impregnable, right! The Germans, however, did not cooperate with French hopes, and flanked the Maginot Line through Belgium, to attack it from the rear. It promptly fell. Its tactical loss was minor compared to what the suprise did to the French psyche with its "Maginot Line mentality." The non-plussed French were incapacitated. Paris fell in a few weeks, and France promptly surrendered. SIEGFRIED LINE The Siegfried Line was Germany's answer to the Maginot Line, and despite all their Germanic thoroughness, it would fare no better! In February of 1945, the advancing Allied armies would flank it too, hit it from the rear and make short work of it. It was such a minor episode that it barely made it into some history books. U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER FENCE To stem the flow of illegal Mexican migrants, especially at San Diego, California and Nogales, Arizona, the US built a fence and enlarged its Border Patrol. The fence is 14 - 15 feet high, topped with layers of barbed wire, and equipped with electronic sensors signaling patrol helicopters. The fence is patrolled by 8,500 border police plus the National Guard, using infra red detectors at night, and every other available technical aid. One Billion dollars/year is spent maintaining that border. 170,000 illegal immigrants/year get through, along with 15 tons of heroin and 400 tons of cocaine. Estimates are that the fence reduces illegal immigration by 1.2 percent. The Mexican's motivation is $60/day vs. $5/day, versus the terrorists dreams of paradise. The history of walls and fences as defensive borders has consistently shown them to be horrible investments to be defeated by a small fraction of their cost.This should be predictable to anyone realizing that you are pitting a passive device against active assailants; like pitting a tree against woodsmen with axes. We know that the Jews are the world's champs in denial, defense mechanisms, and wishful delusional thinking. It requires the application of all of those Jewish extremes to think terrorists can be contained with a fence as tho they were chickens! They might bribe their way though. (That there are Israelis who can be bought has been shown by the Knesset's passage of Oslo, and the terrorists having Israeli uniforms and guns). Some nice leftist might even let them through for free (The calamities experienced in Lebanon could not have occurred without treachery from within.) Even as you read this, Arabs are planning on raming the wall with a car of explosives, then an 100 killers will burst through to fan out in small groups to wreak havoc! If the wall should prove too much of an inconvenience to the terrorists they can always use Israeli Arabs. Israeli Arabs have not only an advantage in position, but an advantage from the wishful thinking of Israelis that their native Arabs are different. Should the wall force the terrorists to use Israeli Arabs (which I doubt it will) at least it will force the Israelis to give up on their delusional wishful thinking about Israeli Arabs. All that Israel will get from that wall is a Maginot Line mentality- temporary mood elevation from false security to be payed for by amplified malaise when it fails! The fewer Israelis who expect anything from that wall the better! Sincerely, Mike Leibowitz Brooklyn, NY |
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