[IMC-Editorial] Letter on Bush's Reaction to Israel's Security Fence

[The Ayn Rand Institute]

Dear Editor:

While President Bush was right to criticize the Palestinian Authority for not acting 
against terrorism directed at Israel, he should be ashamed of criticizing Israel for 
building a security fence.

Note the absurdity of the criticism's moral equivalence: while the Palestinian Authority 
does absolutely nothing to stop terrorists from organizing, training and slipping into 
Israel to murder and maim, Israel is criticized for building a fence to protect itself 
from such attacks!

Such criticism is no different, in principle, than criticism directed against a man who 
builds a fence to protect his family from criminal neighbors. 

President Bush's misguided criticism implies a moral equivalence between those who act 
in self-defense and the terrorists who initiate violence against them, and it can have 
only one result: to facilitate the terrorists' attacks while undermining their victims' 
ability to defend themselves.

Sincerely,

David Holcberg
Ayn Rand Institute

Irvine, CA  92606
United States
949-222-6550 ext. 226
davidh at aynrand.org

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