If Shalev's words were political spin, they are still a useful reminder of that powerful and growing contingent among the Israeli political elite who support Obama's call for immediate talks to set the border of a new Palestinian state (which would also give Israel a legally declared border for the first time).
A curfew was declared and borders were closed.
He was killed in 2006, but the group expanded into Syria, and, in June this year, declared the borders of the Middle East, established after World War One, were redundant.
According to reports from Lebanon, activists there canceled plans to march to the Israeli border after the Lebanese authorities declared the border area a closed military zone.
The government has imposed martial law and declared the border closed.
He was the highest-ranking Israeli soldier to die since Israel declared the border area its "security zone" in 1985.
Obama has branded Islamic State (Isis) forces an acute threat to the west as well as the Middle East and said that key Nato allies stood ready to back Washington in action against the group, which has seized expanses of northern Iraq and eastern Syria and declared a border-blurring religious caliphate.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) has been excoriated on social media for suggesting that March 31, Cesar Chavez's birthday, be declared "National Border Control Day". .
When the Bundesbank objected, he backed down.The presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma, signed a "friendship treaty" declaring their borders "immutable" and dividing up the old Soviet Black Sea Fleet.
When I think about the arbitrary lines we have drawn declaring national borders, a mathematical scheme emerges written using far too many "lesser than" symbols than "equal to" symbols.
