On a late drive home the other night I found myself listening to the “BBC World Report” on an NPR station. (Don’t look at me like that – it was a remote area and that was the only station I could get.)
There was a story about a delegation of British MP’s visiting Gaza to inspect the humanitarian crisis. The MPs were already on record as condemning Israel for the crisis and the war, so their comments were unsurprising. They called on Israel to relieve the suffering it had caused by closing off the Israeli-Gaza border crossings.
As I say, no surprises there. But then my mind drifted off to a trivia question I had heard recently. “Name three nations that each border only a single other country.” I came up with San Marino. Then I remembered Portugal.
I couldn’t get the others. But, I realized, the Terrorist Republic of Gaza (or whatever they call themselves) is not a correct answer. For Gaza has two borders – one with “The Zionist Entity”, and one with Egypt. Yet the media routinely treat Gaza as if it were as isolated as San Marino.
So why does the BBC (and NPR and NBC and NYT and…) treat the Egyptian-Gaza border as non-existent? Why don’t diplomats and traveling parliamentarians demand that Egypt open the crossing to massive shipments of humanitarian aid?
Because Egypt is not run by Jews, that’s why.
Egypt closed its Gaza border for the same reason Israel did; for security reasons, because Hamas is not a responsible political body, but a maniacal death cult masquerading as a government. Israel and Egypt and everyone else who has to deal with Hamas face-to-face all know this. But only Israel is condemned by the self-hating Western Left.
Oh, now I remember the third one: Vatican City!
Great post… I was listening to that same BBC report…..
How about Canada?
By Neddy Dingo, you’re right. I wonder if there are more?
Dominican Republic and Haiti.
South Korea or if unified one day Korea.
OK, OK. Except for Canada and Haiti and the Dominican Republic and South Korea and maybe someday a unified Korea, there are ONLY THREE countries that border only one other country. (I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition…)
Also Ireland. Of course, if the IRA has its way, Ireland may someday have no borders with any other nation – and that sounds like a good idea. Until then, Ireland (and, in a sense, Great Britain) has a single land border.