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The last two of eight prototypes for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall took shape Thursday at a construction site in San Diego.
The prototypes, including one built by Israeli defense firm Elta, form a tightly packed row of imposing concrete and metal panels, including one with sharp metal edges on top.
[...] The models, which cost the government up to $500,000 each, were spaced 30 feet (9.1 meters) apart. Slopes, thickness and curves vary. One has two shades of blue with white trim. The others are gray, tan or brown — in sync with the desert.
Bidding guidelines call for the prototypes to stand between 18 and 30 feet (5.5 and 9.1 meters) high and be able to withstand at least an hour of punishment from a sledgehammer, pickaxe, torch, chisel or battery-operated tools.
Features also should prevent the use of climbing aids such as grappling hooks, and the segments must be "aesthetically pleasing" when viewed from the US side.
(Score: 4, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday October 21 2017, @05:35PM (6 children)
this was 'insightful' ??
you actually compare the relationship between israelis (or jews) and arabs - vs americans and mexicans?
seriously?
there must be a form of godwin that relates to this kind of fallacy.
last I checked, there was not hundreds of years of 'I want to wipe you off the earth!' feelings between americans and mexicans like there are from the arabs to the world's population of jews.
I'm beyond words, on this one. speechless that you'd think that a small country in the middle of hostility (middle east) - that is simply trying to survive the constant threat of being attacked (with intent to remove all jews from the planet) - is acting the same as a SMALL portion of the US that resents 'brown people'?
the way some people's minds work - wow, just wow. ;(
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @06:14PM (1 child)
There aren't hundreds of years of animosity between jews and arabs either - that's a relatively new phenomon that coincides with the Zionist movement and the rise of Wahabbism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 22 2017, @01:13AM
Yeah. The "history" related by TheGratefulNet is pretty weak.
The Battle of the Alamo (Republic of Texas): 1836
The Mexican-American War: 1846 - 1848
The Balfour Declaration which established British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine: 1917
The State of Israel founded: 1948
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @10:12PM (2 children)
The Israelis come from Khazaria. They are not Jews. They mass-adopted the Jewish religion (which cannot be done) otherwise their throats would have been cut long ago.
The Israelis are Zionists, not Jews. Many Christians are also Zionists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @11:18PM (1 child)
It can't be done, but they did it? Huh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @11:23PM
Jews are a race. Judaism is not a religion like other religions. Adopting Judaism does not make one a Jew. You have to be born to real Jews to be a Jew. The Israelis are not Jews.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Sunday October 22 2017, @02:39PM
There must also be another form of godwin for a person who swallows propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
Assertion #1: There are "hundreds of years of 'I want to wipe you off the earth!'" feelings between arabs and the world's population of Jews. In fact, the Palestinians were the only ones who took in Jews fleeing the holocaust after Britain, America, and all other countries turned them down. As thanks, the Zionists then turned around and dispossessed the Palestinians. That's pretty much ground zero for the hostility that exists now between the two parties.
Assertion #2: "a small country in the middle of hostility (middle east) - that is simply trying to survive the constant threat of being attacked." You mean the small country in the middle east that is the only one with nuclear weapons and which invades its neighbors at will, without international retaliation a la the Gulf War? The small country that is running a slo-mo ethnic cleansing campaign of the West Bank? Yeah, poor, poor, poor Israel!
"I'm beyond words, on this one. speechless"
That does rather happen when one is confronted with incontrovertible facts.
"the way some people's minds work - wow, just wow."
I'm more frequently dismayed at how some people's minds don't work. They don't receive information critically, accept any warm, fuzzy cognitive blanket they're given without question.
As for walls, the comparison I draw between Israel's and Trump's is that they are a physical manifestation of bigotry. The walls, and the bigotry, must be torn down.
Washington DC delenda est.