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Egypt’s Steel Wall: An Attempt to Placate the U.S.?

January 10, 2010 - 12:00 am - by Allison Kaplan Sommer
Professor Guvinoff
2010-01-10 23:18:54

The wall will also create some distance between the other Arabs and their mindless claims of solidarity with the Palestinians. These claims have always been bogus: Nobody wants the Palestinians in their midst, because they make trouble (it’s a rather well-paid profession, really) wherever they go. Once the wall is complete, it will no longer be possible for the Arabs to claim solidarity with the Palestinians, because evidently the closer you are to them, the more you need to protect yourself from them, and this is not just the product of some Israeli weakness of character.