Posted on 09/08/2015 12:01:10 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
One month ahead of its scheduled start date, Israel began to build a new security security fence on its eastern border with Jordan on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced after a cabinet meeting. “Today, we are starting to build a fence on our eastern border,” Netanyahu announced. “In the first stage, we will build it from Timna to Eilat in order to protect the airport being built there.”
The 20 mile-stretch between the two cities encompasses the southernmost part of Israel, which is located just a handful of miles from the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia–two known hotbeds for jihadist terrorism. Netanyahu said that once the southeast border construction is complete, “we will continue the fence up to the Golan Heights (northeast Israel), where we have already built a strong security fence.”
The Golan Heights area is bordered by Syria and Lebanon, with militant jihadist groups in both nations (ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria; Hezbollah in Lebanon) having established bases mere miles from Israeli territory. “To the extent that it is possible we will encompass Israel’s borders with a security fence and barriers that will allow us to control our borders,” Netanyahu pledged. “We will not allow Israel to be flooded with illegal migrants and terrorists.” When Israel’s Security Cabinet announced plans for the security fence in June, many had taken to dubbing the barrier an “Anti-ISIS fence.”
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Will Israel hold out? Will they maintain their integrity in the midst of the scornful Islamic led nations? The Bible predicts that a liberal administration will come in the future that will cave under pressure. They will sign the "covenant with death" with the coming Anti-Christ bringing about "great tribulation" for the country. But whoever cries out to the "tried stone", the "precious corner stone", the "sure foundation", the Moshioch of Israel, Yeshua, will be saved...
Isaiah 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said , We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge * shall pass through , it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Israel is an ancient country, and walls are an ancient method of keeping people out, from Babylon, to Jerusalem, etc.
I’ve been to the West Bank and seen the wall that Sharon built. Walls work!
All they had to do to save a bunch of money and time was ask Homobama. He'd tell them.
Walls don't work...Geeez!
Good fences make better neighbors! I would fence the whole damn country and patrol with armed drones, which allows immediate deadly response, surveillance and a cushion of time to move ground forces towards any breach. My dream would be to build the type of wall that separates Israel from Gaza. 25 ft tall wall is quite an impediment.
Exactly! Without a secure border, there is no country...
When President Trump is in office, we will once again have Bibi and Israel’s back. Then when the Pali’s express their never ending outrage, Bibi and Trump will tell them to go screw themselves up against Israel’s new wall.
"President Trump" is already waffling about bringing Syrian refugees to the US. At the rate we're going, it will be too late to have anybody's back.
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