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The Wall
Critics of Israel's defense fence should listen to Bing Crosby.
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br> He is all pine and I am apple orchard. br> My apple trees will never get across br> And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. br> He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors." /em> /p>The poem then goes on to explain that the poet's friend, walking beside him, said he adopted the "good fences" expression from his father.
p> em>He will not go behind his father's saying, br> And he likes having thought it so well... /em> /p>Mayor Nasser might do well to read the entire poem, since the problems Jews have with the Palestinians do not involve apples or pines nor are the Arabs good neighbors. In fact it might do many of the Palestinians a great deal of good if they spent their time reading Robert Frost, who wrote of the simple virtues and honest lives of Americans, rather than devote their reading to bomb-making manuals.
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