Fifth day of rockets. Not a big deal, but not terribly nice. Ezi explained to me how to make a kassam and it is terribly easy. You take a stop sign and take off the sign. Then you file it down and add little metal wings to make it airworthy and then you add the nails and explosives (a little fertilizer will do) in the end. He taught me how to make the launcher when he was planning his cremebo launcher long ago. A cinch.
“Good fences make good neighbors,” said Ehud Barak today as they announced the border to be built between Israel and Egypt. At the moment you can just step across, almost everywhere. But the quote is out of context. It’s what the old fogey neighbor says and the speaker in the poem continues:
“Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was wallin in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
We’ve got good reason to wall out, but in our case, I think this is a mutually agreeable wall to regulate terrorists, smugglers and illegal aliens. So I don’t see it as a wall to keep Egypt out, but to help both countries control the chaos that is now Sinai.
Still, it would be nice if Barak knew the whole poem and the name of the poet. And if he understood and explained the complexity of the situation.
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