Aaron Klein reports the EU is planning to build its own fence:
Just one month after the U.N. and EU launched a furious campaign against Israel‘s security fence, culminating in the International Court of Justice ruling that the fence is illegal, the EU announced it’s planning to build a separation fence of its own, and invited Israel to participate in the construction.
The fence is being built to separate recently added EU members Poland and Hungary from their new neighbors — Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The EU said the fence is necessary to “prevent the free movement of migrants seeking to enter” EU territory.
The fence will stretch for “hundreds of kilometers along the EU’s new eastern border.”
Its new border!? That fence snakes right through the middle of the old Soviet Union, separating comrade from comrade, people who previously lived together for more than half a century in a workers’ paradise (okay, sure, it had certain “internal contradictions,” but nothing that would merit a fence).
Is this new EU fence really justified? Doesn’t it violate the UN’s belief in “[f]acilitating the free movement of persons and capital . . . among member States”?
Perhaps the International Court of Justice should decide this too, because they have judges who are experts on where fences should be. The court recently ruled, in the case of Israel’s fence, that it was “not convinced that the specific course Israel has chosen for the wall was necessary to attain its security objectives.”
Actually, Naomi Ragen may have a better idea: “Maybe Israel should say the fence is to keep out migrant workers, not terrorists.”
(Hat tips: DB, Yael).