Robomatic says, in response to my post: All the walls mentioned by you above are controversial and can be argued about in their local contexts. But they are not equivalent. I am saying that Israel, a democratic country with a mult-ethnic population is not equivalent to the DDR, a Communist totalitarian regime. Your argument assumes that Israel and the DDR have the same valid right to existence.

I think you failed to read to the end of my post. All those who build walls, can make valid arguments to defend their fortifications. But in building a wall to stop a few offenders, they also do great harm to many others who are innocent. This is true in Germany, in Israel - and in the already-fortified United States, whose president-elect wants to build a yet-higher wall so he can surpass both Israel and Berlin.

-Joe-

P.S. George Orwell used the animal-communism analogy long ago. Animal Farm was published in 1945.