Post's Toles Tantrum Tickles the Terrorists

Friend of the blog Leo sent another great letter to the Post

Subject: The Berlin War and Israel's Security Fence


To the Editor:

Cartoonist Tom Toles has his facts upside-down and inside-out when he likens Israel's security fence to the Berlin Wall. Unlike the East German regime which cut Berlin in two to prevent its own people from fleeing Communist rule, Israel is not building its barrier because Israelis are gung-ho to leave Israel and settle in Nablus or Ramallah. The Israeli fence is designed to keep Palestinian terrorists out. Even before its completion, it has saved many lives.

Slamming Ariel Sharon with patent falsehoods should be beneath the Post. Would Toles draw a similar cartoon about a U.S. president and the American fence at the Mexican border, designed to cut down the flow of illegal immigrants? Mexico is not even exporting terrorism but I don't see Toles or the Post demonizing George W. Bush or his predecessors for erecting our do-not-trespass fence.

Fences may not always make good neighbors, but they often make better neighbors -- especially when the alternative is to allow free rein to the slaughter of innocents.