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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (115204)9/19/2003 5:21:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
GST, fences can be to fence things out, or in. In the case of the Great Wall of China and the Great Fence of Israel, they are to keep people out. As were most walls around castles, towns and across countries.

<They are educated as they watch themselves being fenced in, as the Jews themselves were once so horribly fenced into the Warsaw ghetto. >

Those two fences are totally different. One is to keep people in. One to keep them out. They couldn't be more different.

I suppose we could argue that the Dachau-style fences were to keep people out [of the surrounding society]. But that's stretching the use of language since there was no externality for those so imprisoned [or kept out]. Palestinians, kept out of Israel, still have the whole world as an externality with which they can associate, trade or move to.

Not all fences and walls are equivalent.

Mqurice
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