{"id":179,"date":"2011-07-30T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=179"},"modified":"2011-07-30T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T12:29:49","slug":"good-fences-make-adequate-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2011\/07\/good-fences-make-adequate-neighbors.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Fences Make Adequate Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s security barrier, termed an &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; by Jimmy Carter groupies, has saved Jewish lives. Period.<\/p>\n<p>The Bible speaks of a time when Israel will be a land of unwalled villages. There is some debate about what this means, exactly. It could be that this situation doesn&#8217;t presently exist, due to the security wall, which snakes through the country and keeps out Palestinian terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Others say that, no, in ancient times the villages had barriers to prevent attacks and wild animals from harming the inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the &#8220;unwalled villages&#8221; refer to in terms of where we are in history, I applaud the presence of this security barrier. I like Jews and I like seeing them alive.<figure id=\"attachment_180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/files\/2011\/07\/wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/237\/2011\/07\/wall-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security barrier, southern Jerusalem<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s security barrier, termed an &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; by Jimmy Carter groupies, has saved Jewish lives. Period. The Bible speaks of a time when Israel will be a land of unwalled villages. There is some debate about what this means, exactly. 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