re: #670 drcordell

Actually, I can think of just a country.

Israel.

Israel was completely walled off from its neighbors because those neighbors sought nothing but war. Lebanon and Syria are still technically at war with Israel and do not have an armistice with Israel. Jordan and Egypt signed peace treaties, but even now Israel and Egypt’s common border is armed because of ongoing threats posed by Gazans who first enter Egypt’s Sinai to then cross into Israel via Egypt.

But for the Palestinian terrorism, Israel would not be responding against the terrorism. Period. Israel has shown far more restraint against such acts than any other nation on the planet.

Would Russia or the US tolerate thousands of rockets fired against their territory by a terror regime as Hamas did in 2006-2007-and even into 2009 after Cast Lead?

I think not. But for the terrorism, Israel would not have needed the checkpoints. In fact, the checkpoints became commonplace after the first Intifada when suicide bombings and attacks became commonplace.

Those kinds of attacks are now rare - precisely because of the success of those measures.