Aaron Cohen on Israel’s Wall: The Fact Is It Works

RUSH EXCERPT:

COHEN: “Here’s the thing, a wall it was stripped away of all the political nonsense and all of the emotion that is associated with a wall is just a divider between and bad. That’s the way we look at it in Israel. Brick and mortar designed originally after an onslaught of terrorism that Israel faced in the mid 1990s. Probably the one of the worst ways of terror in the country. Over 450 civilian casualties within a period of about a year and a half, two years. Coming out of the 190s. Israel said listen, we are fed up with this. The barriers between the west bank and between actual Israel was very loose fence and is the same thing with gaza and Israel said and the generals said look, we have had enough. Why are we basically putting a layer and remember security is layers. Why aren’t we physically putting a layer that can be patrolled, monitored by surveillance, by actual border patrol units and let’s see what happens. So they built this wall. It was a little contentious in certain parts of the west bank but ended up reducing the amount of terror attacks from 75 the prior year, by the end of 2000 to down to less than a dozen. The fact is it works for our — “