The judges at The Hague will begin today hearing the case being brought against Israel for its security fence. It’s the only security-fence case the International Court has seen fit to hear. But it turns out an entire site has been put up on the World Wide Web animated by the discovery of its authors that, as they put it, there exist some fences in the world outside of Israel.

Take-a-Pen.org/english/Fences, the Web site, suggests a letter-writing campaign with respect to all the other fences. These include, above, the fence between Catholic and Protestant districts in Belfast, Northern Ireland; another along the harbor of Hoek, in Holland; another between the West Bank village of Sawakre and Jerusalem; still another between North and South Korea; a fence dividing the capital city of Nicosia, Cyprus; another between Amritsar, India and Pakistan, and another between Spanish territory and Morocco, designed, the site says,”to keep illegal workers (without bombs) out of Spain.”

No doubt the list put up on the Web by Take-a-Pen.org is far from complete. It may well be that in trouble spots, fences are the norm rather than the exception. What turns out to be unusual is the hubbub against the fence being erected to protect Israel. Some will argue that it’s not the fence but the route of the fence that’s the issue, but no border has so far been acceptable to the bombers behind the wave of killings, the latest of which took place yesterday in the Israeli capital, where a suicide bomber killed eight on a bus.

The chief of police was quoted as saying that the bombers’ success in repeatedly penetrating Jerusalem was the result of “dozens of kilometers” where the security fence being built around Jerusalem has not been completed. Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York, who was near the blast, said,”The various hypocrites arguing in The Hague against the building of the security fence are similar to those who condemned the Czechs 65 years ago for getting in Hitler’s way.”