The government approved a separation wall in Sinai to stave off not “smugglers and terrorists,” as it claimed, but actually illegal African migrants. Some 40,000 of them have entered Israel already. At their current breeding rate, in ten years they will become 3% of the Israeli population.
The wall is estimated to cost about $300 million, which is nonsense. If the current cost of the separation barrier is any indicator, the actual cost will be close to $9 billion—at a time when the government can’t scramble $100 million to reinforce Sderot schools against new types of rockets. Palestinians have already learned to scale the wall, and the Africans will do likewise.
Egyptian border policemen fight illegals on the cheap by shooting them.
