World War Two had many Maginot lines...

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Post WW Two has walls as well... Israel has these Barriers which are walls to protect who from what and why? Israel has made a wall too... Their version of the Berlin Wall keeping people bottled up and on a grander scale...


The Israeli West Bank barrier (also known as the Israeli West Bank wall or Israeli West Bank fence) is a separation barrier in the West Bank or along the Green Line. The barrier is a contentious element of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel describes the wall as a necessary security barrier against terrorism; Palestinians call it a racial segregation or apartheid wall.[1][2][3] At a total length of 708 kilometres (440 mi) upon completion, the route traced by the barrier is more than double the length of the Green Line, with 15% of the barrier's length running along the Green Line or inside Israel, while the remaining 85% is inside the West Bank going up to 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the West Bank border, isolating about 9% of the land and 25,000 Palestinians from the rest of West Bank.
You seem to forget in the early 2000s Israel was inadaded with Palestian suicide bombers. That has pretty much come to an end since the wall was built. That's called sucess.
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You seem to forget in the early 2000s Israel was inadaded with Palestian suicide bombers. That has pretty much come to an end since the wall was built. That's called sucess.
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A bomb from a sky or a bomb strapped to your body for some reason people feel the suicide bomber is worst than a bomb dropped from a plane or a rocket or a missile... Now the cycle begins if Israel would build settlements or build walls to divide the Palestinians into Bantustans, than your argument holds water. If they had built the wall along the 1968 border you have an argument as well... You must have missed my post on Marches of Intimidation...

 

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A bomb from a sky or a bomb strapped to your body for some reason people feel the suicide bomber is worst than a bomb dropped from a plane or a rocket or a missile... Now the cycle begins if Israel would build settlements or build walls to divide the Palestinians into Bantustans, than your argument holds water. If they had built the wall along the 1968 border you have an argument as well... You must have missed my post on Marches of Intimidation...

I am not arguing morality but effectiveness. Unlike the US and West European's the Israeli goverment actually at least makes an effort to protect their citizenry.
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^is your job by any chance guarding a gated community nowadays?
 

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Here I learned of another Maginot line but this time it was in Greece the Metaxas Line of the 1930s. The defensive line was protecting Bulgaria from invading Greece. It was not completed and outflanked by the Germans in WW2. The German General was magnanimous to the Greek defenders...

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German General Wilhelm List, who led the attack against the Metaxas Line, admired the bravery and courage of these soldiers. He refrained from taking the Greek soldiers prisoner and declared that the army was free to leave with their war flags, on condition that they surrender their arms and supplies. He also ordered his soldiers and officers to salute the Greek soldiers (Beevor 2005, p. 20). There were few troops to defend the line as most of the Greek Army was fighting against the Italians on the Albanian front.
 

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Here is a recap of the Battle of the Metaxas Line...


The origins of the battle lie in the Italian invasion of Greece, which took place on 28 October 1940. The failure of the Italian Army to bring a favourable end to this Greek-Italian war forced the Germans to intervene, with an operation they dubbed Operation Marita.

The Battle of the Metaxas Line (German: Kampf um die Metaxas-Linie), also known in Greece as the Battle of the Forts (Greek: Μάχη των Οχυρών), was the first battle during the German invasion of Greece in World War II. The Germans succeeded in capturing several individual forts but failed to breach the fortified Metaxas Line in general. The 2nd Panzer division (XVIII Mountain Corps) with an enveloping move crossed the Yugoslavian borders, overcame Yugoslav and Greek resistance and captured Thessaloniki on the 9th of April. The capture of Thessaloniki forced the Greek East Macedonia Army Section to surrender on the 10th of April and the Metaxas Line battle was over.
 
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