{"id":223528,"date":"2016-02-10T20:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=223528"},"modified":"2016-02-10T20:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:46:56","slug":"netanyahu-wants-fence-around-israel-keep-wild-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-wants-fence-around-israel-keep-wild-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Wants Fence Around Israel to Keep Out ‘Wild Beasts’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts,’ Prime Minister says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Andrea Germanos<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to encircle his entire country with a fence as protection against “wild beasts,” referring to those in neighboring Arab states.<\/p>\n

He made the comments Tuesday while visiting an 18-mile stretch of fence already<\/a> under construction on the Israel-Jordan border.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, in the State of Israel as I see it, there will be a fence like this one surrounding its entirety,” he said, according to a statement on the Prime Minister’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“They tell me: Is this what you want to do, defend the villa? The answer is yes. What, are we going to surround the entire State of Israel with a fence, a barrier? The answer is yes, unequivocally. In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts.”<\/p>\n

He added that it would be a multi-year project, multi-million dollar project.<\/p>\n

“Perhaps the most notorious of Israel’s walls built for ‘security purposes’ runs within the occupied West Bank,” as Al Jazeera<\/em> reports. It was deemed illegal<\/a> by the International Court of Justice in 2004.<\/p>\n

Haaretz<\/em> columnist Asher Schechter argues<\/a> that “Israel is already not even trying to function like a democracy,” and writes that\u00a0Netanyahu’s statement is “a display of everything wrong with Israel under his leadership. Israel circa 2016 is fearful, hateful, and paranoid, self-involved to a degree even Donald Trump would find distasteful, and soon it might have big walls surrounding it from every which way, quarantining it, and a political system where only Jews need apply.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday Netanyahu also spoke to the Israeli parliament and referred<\/a> to the existing fence along the border with Egypt, saying that it prevented Israel from being “overrun” with migrants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via Common Dreams<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘In the environment in which we live we must defend ourselves from the wild beasts,’ Prime Minister says. Andrea Germanos Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a plan to encircle his entire country with a fence as protection against “wild beasts,” referring to those in neighboring Arab states. He made the comments Tuesday while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}