The situation on the Libya-Tunisia border is "reaching crisis point," as tens of thousands are fleeing violence in Libya.
No decision on the German-Polish border was reached at Yalta.
And for good measure, the garden's long and showy perennial border was reaching the end of its natural life and in need of wholesale replanting.
Last month, Mr. McAleenan was the public face of new government data showing that unauthorized entries at the southwestern border were reaching record-breaking numbers; more than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, an 11-year high.
It could proclaim it was acting merely to enforce the U.N. Middle East resolution and that once Israel's 1967 Sinai borders were reached, fighting would halt.
However, Netanyahu would have to promise that if no border agreement is reached within three months, there would be a total freeze of all settlement construction until a border agreement is achieved.
Trump emerged from his meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol and declared that the party is "totally unified" on keeping the government partially shuttered until a deal on a border wall is reached.
The standoff may also damage his reëlection prospects, especially if no border agreement is reached and the government shuts down again, as it is scheduled to do in that case, on February 15th.
Thus, the upper border of the instability is reached in the area of the stations 103 and 104.
Even if Israel freezes settlement building, the Palestinians come to the negotiating table and an agreement is reached about borders, refugees and Jerusalem, there will still be no real peace in the Middle East -- if Iran continues on its determined path toward developing deliverable nuclear weapons.
