Another Israeli wall for the BBC to highlight

The BBC have as their second most important story Israel to constuct Egypt barrier with the lead-in of "Israel's government approves plans to build a barrier along its border with Egypt in a bid to keep out illegal migrants and militants."

There is an odd passage in the body of the story:

"In recent years, thousands of migrants have crossed into Israel via Egypt.

At least 17 migrants, mostly African, have been killed since May by Egyptian police, who say they are trying to stop people trafficking.

According to Israeli police estimates between 100-200 illegal immigrants cross into Israel from Egypt every week.

Eritrea is the most common country of origin for people trying to cross illegally from Egypt to Israel, followed by Ethiopia and Sudan. "

This is confusing, normally the BBC are so keen to tell us about the 'apartheid state' of Israel and how poorly non-Jews are treated. Yet here we have 100-200 illegal immigrants trying to get to live in Israel every week. What on earth do these people see in this most vile of countries?

The BBC then report that:

"Egyptian security sources said Israel had not informed them of its plans, but that they would not object so long as the barrier was built on Israeli soil."

Interesting...

Of course this being the BBC they have to remind us of the 'apartheid wall':

"Israel has also been building a controversial barrier in and around the occupied West Bank in recent years. It says it is needed to defend Israeli citizens from attacks by militants. Palestinians, however, consider it a land grab.

In 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague issued an advisory ruling that the barrier was illegal and should be removed."

Those evil Israelis.
Hod on what's this right at the end of the article:

"Egypt is meanwhile building an underground barrier along its border with Gaza to stem the smuggling of weapons through tunnels."

Just an underground barrier, so above ground is an open border? Of course not, the whole vorder is fenced but mentioning that might let people compare the two borders.

For details of other border walls that the BBC choose not to mention quite as often as the 'apartheid wall' you could take a look here.