Recently the world court based in The Hague has ruled against Israel’s security fence that attempts to separate the Israelis from the Palestinians. I suppose we need to forget about the world court’s ludicrous rulings in the past (Telling America the Death Penalty isn’t right) to focus correctly on this ruling which is just as ludicrous.
First, what is the purpose of a wall? Is it to divide peoples? Consider Robert Frost’s Poem “Mending Wall”. In this poem the narrator thinks that walls are not natural because nature destroys them and therefore they shouldn’t be there. However the man’s neighbor thinks that, “Good fences make good neighbors.” The narrator thinks that walls are a barrier to friendship. Well, if they are a barrier to friendship aren’t they a barrier for enemies too?