While it’s clearly not the same thing as the U.S. – Mexico border debate, the fact that Gazans made another border wall hole on the Gaza-Egypt border wall, is proof positive that the presence of a physical barrier is not going to stop the movement of people, especially when those people are pushed to the brink. Hundreds of thousands have surged into Egypt to buy scarce supplies caused by a recent tightening of a blockade of Gaza.

Both border tightenings are being done in the name of homeland security, to keep racialized undesirables out. Both rely on a climate of fear to succeed and earn support.

It is an international border, it needs to be protected
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Via / BBC