text: Israel News: "Apartheid" walls are everywhere.
  http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2007/02/apartheid-walls-are-everywhere.html
  For better or worse, these walls are going up everywhere, but Israel is the only country that is getting flak for a security fence.
  Gwynne Dyer, Arab News Tuesday, 13, February, 2007
  www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=92084&d=13&m=2&y=2007
  The latest country to start building a wall - sorry, a "security fence" - is Thailand, which has just announced plans to build a physical barrier along the most inaccessible 75 km. (50 miles) of its frontier with Malaysia. The goal, says Bangkok, is to stop "terrorists" from crossing into Thailand's restive Muslim-majority southern provinces from northern Malaysia, whose people share the same language and religion. If experience elsewhere is any guide, the whole border will be walled sooner or later.
  The reason that the United States is incapable of controlling its Mexican border is political, not financial or technological: Powerful domestic lobbies work to ensure a steady supply of "undocumented" Mexican workers who will accept very low wages because they are in the United States illegally.
  President Bush has now been authorized by Congress to build a fence along about 1,125 km (700 miles) of the Mexican border, but he will stall as long as he can while experimenting with a so-called "virtual fence."
  - Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist.
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