Unintended Consequences

This is amazing.

You remember at time as a kid when a thermometer broke and you would play with the mercury? The mercury would slide around, break into pieces and then reform again. No matter what you did, it always found a way to maintain it's integrity. Sounds to me like the Israeli's need to play with some mercury a bit:

The LAT off-leads with the second part of a three-part series on Jerusalem, this installment on the unintended consequences of the wall Israel is building. Described as a "security fence," the wall threatens to cut Palestinians off from Jerusalem and disrupt economic activity. So for both financial and nationalistic reasons, thousands of Palestinians are moving into Jerusalem instead of staying put, as they likely would have done were the wall never built. It is expected to be complete early next year.

Americans would do well to pay attention to this little lesson in the Middle East and Mexico as well. People are passionate, ingenious and dauntless. Walls are stupid and simply do not work. If mountains, rivers and oceans haven't been able to stop migration, what makes anyone think a little bit of concrete will do anything.