WALLS AND HUMANITY – by Steve Ramsey

I dedicate this article to those who died and got shot crossing these walls , and to those who have been shot , raped and tortured at these boarders .

So many counties in the world had a wall of some kind some of them physical wall made of bricks and mortar , some elctronic and some mental .

We live in a world of borders and walls. In the 23 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, 27 new walls and fences have gone up on political borders around the world. These walls are built by both totalitarian regimes and democracies, including India, Thailand, Israel, South Africa, and the European Union. Invariably, the barriers are justified in the language of security—the country must be protected from the terrorists, drug cartels, insurgents, or suicide bombers lurking on the other side.

Despite the external focus of these justifications, in most instances these walls and fences are actually the result of internal reasoning, from establishing sovereignty over ungoverned or unruly lands, to protecting internal wealth, to preserving cultural practices from the influence of other value systems. The decision to build the 664-mile barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, although often presented as primarily in response to drug-related violence and terrorism, is largely due to these internal factors.

1- Perhaps the most recognizable symbol of China and its long and vivid history, the Great Wall of China actually consists of numerous walls and fortifications, many running parallel to each other. Originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (c. 259-210 B.C.) in the third century B.C. as a means of preventing incursions from barbarian nomads into the Chinese Empire, the wall is one of the most extensive construction projects ever completed. The best-known and best-preserved section of the Great Wall was built in the 14th through 17th centuries A.D., during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Though the Great Wall never effectively prevented invaders from entering China, it came to function more as a psychological barrier between Chinese civilization and the world, and remains a powerful symbol of the country’s enduring strength.

When Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered construction of the Great Wall around 221 B.C., the labor force that built the wall was made up largely of soldiers and convicts. It is said that as many as 400,000 people died during the wall’s construction; many of these workers were buried within the wall itself. It must be the best hot spot for the paranormal invistegators . Many of those who died were children, women and old men who were prisoned for many different reasons mainly for stealing food .

In the mid-17th century, the Manchus from central and southern Manchuria broke through the Great Wall and encroached on Beijing, eventually forcing the fall of the Ming dynasty and beginning of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644-1912). Between the 18th and 20th centuries, the Great Wall emerged as the most common emblem of China for the Western world, and a symbol both physical–a manifestation of Chinese strength–and psychological–a representation of the barrier maintained by the Chinese state to repel foreign influences and exert control over its citizens. The wall was built in one thing in mind to keep the outsiders ,thief, killers , murderers , and other greedy kings out of China until the communists took over and building a new psychological wall of fear, control ,and total destruction of human right .

2- The Korean wall or the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ; Hangul: 한반도 비무장지대; Hanja: 韓半島非武裝地帶) is a highly militarized strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula. It was established at the end of the Korean War to serve as a buffer zone between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The DMZ is a de facto border barrier that divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half. It was created by agreement between North Korea, China and the United Nations in 1953. The DMZ is 250 kilometers (160 miles) long, and about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) wide.

Within the DMZ is a meeting-point between the two nations in the small Joint Security Area near the western end of the zone, where negotiations take place. There have been various incidents in and around the DMZ, with military and civilian casualties on both sides. Several tunnels are claimed to have been built as an invasion route for the North Koreans. So many people lost their lives crossing from North communists Korea to the south and those who got captured crossing from the north was shot on the spot, raped, tortured along with their families and friends who support them, some times given to the zoo animal alive, burned alive and buried alive by those evil communists.

3- India and Pakistan wall or so called Line of Control (LoC) refers to the military control line between the Indian and Pakistani controlled parts of the former princely state of Kashmir and Jammu—a line which, to this day, does not constitute a legally recognized international boundary but is the de facto border. Originally known as the Cease-fire Line, it was redesignated as the “Line of Control” following the Simla Agreement, which was signed on 3 July 1972. The part of the former princely state that is under Indian control is known as the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The two parts of the former princely state that are under Pakistani control are known as Gilgit–Baltistan and Azad Kashmir (AJK). Its northernmost point is known as the NJ9842. Mnay got killed and raped trying to cross for work or venture around for food .

4-The famous Berlin wall . 

On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Anti fascist ischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. 

The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. 

Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. 

To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. So many people got shot and killed by the evil russian communists those people were trying to cross to west berlin. 

I visted both sides back in 1977. A Jiwish lady told me a stroywhen she used to live in the east side , the communsit side . She was in love with a german man from the west side . She told me that her family did not aprove her relationship with this German Engneer as they blamed them for what had happened in the past. 

The man had met her while he was doing some contract work in east Berlin . Both managed to devise a plan so when they finally got to the day of crossing t. Her parents desided to go with her too as finally they accept her and her fiance .The evil Russian guards shot and killed her parents almost hundred yards from the wall , and the young Jewish girl managed to escape and taken by her man who later married her and lived in west Germany. 

TIS lady who told me the story always remember her parents , and hate the wall that was later destroyed by the help of USA and the free wold and the Russian people who rose against the communists . Ironically now usa trying to build a wall between USA and Mexico.

5-The Western Wall, Wailing Wall or Kotel in Jerusalem.

is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small segment of a far longer ancient retaining wall, known also in its entirety as the “Western Wall”.

When Rome destroyed the Second Temple in 70 C.E., only one outer wall remained standing. The Romans probably would have destroyed that wall as well, but it must have seemed too insignificant to them; it was not even part of the Temple itself, just an outer wall surrounding the Temple Mount.

For the Jews, however, this remnant of what was the most sacred building in the Jewish world quickly became the holiest spot in Jewish life. Throughout the centuries Jews from throughout the world made the difficult pilgrimage to Palestine, and immediately headed for the Kotel ha-Ma’aravi (the Western Wall) to thank God. The prayers offered at the Kotel were so heartfelt that gentiles began calling the site the “Wailing Wall.”

The Wailing Wall was subjected to far worse than semantic indignities. During the more than one thousand years Jerusalem was under Muslim rule, the Arabs often used the Wall as a garbage dump, so as to humiliate the Jews who visited it.

For nineteen years, from 1948 to 1967, the Kotel was under Jordanian rule. Although the Jordanians had signed an armistice agreement in 1949 guaranteeing Jews the right to visit the Wall, not one Israeli Jew was ever permitted to do so. One of the first to reach the Kotel in the 1967 Six-Day War was Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, who helped revive a traditional Jewish custom by inserting a written petition into its cracks. It was later revealed that Dayan’s prayer was that a lasting peace “descend upon the House of Israel.”

The custom of inserting written prayers into the Kotel’s cracks is so widespread that some American-Jewish newspapers carry advertisements for services that insert such prayers on behalf of sick Jews. The mystical qualities associated with the Kotel are underscored in a popular Israeli song, a refrain of which runs: “There are people with hearts of stone, and stones with hearts of people.” A rabbi in Jerusalem once told me that the Hebrew expression “The walls have ears” was originally said about the Western Wall.

Unfortunately, even a symbol as unifying as the Kotel can become a source of controversy in Jewish life. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have long opposed organized women’s prayer services at the Wall; prayer services they maintain, may only be conducted by males. On occasion they have violently dispersed such services, throwing chairs and other “missiles” at the praying women. Under intense public pressure however, the right of women to pray collectively at the Kotel is gradually being won.

In addition to the large crowds that come to pray at the Kotel on Friday evenings, it is also a common gathering place on all Jewish holidays, particularly on the fast of Tisha Be-Av, which commemorates the destruction of both Temples. Today the Wall is a national symbol, and the opening or closing ceremonies of many Jewish events, including secular ones, are conducted there.

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY IN ISRAEL , you can have cell phone prayers at the wall while you are in USA with a price and fees paid .

6- The Baghdad Wall is the name being given by some media outlets to a 5 km long wall being built by the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army around the predominantly Sunni district of Adhamiya in Baghdad, Iraq Shia and Sunni wall in Baghdad that was constructed by USA , USA love walls and devision to protect their interest and of course to reduce the clashes between people who have been invaded by usa and Iran in the first place .

7- Babylon wall in IRAQ. 

Babylon means “Babel” (gate of god). It is an ancient city in the plain of shinar on the Euphrates River, about 50 miles south of Modern Baghdad. Babylon was founded by Nimrod of Gen. 10, who developed the world’s first organized system of idolatry, which God condemned (Gen. 11). It later became the capital of Babylonia and the Babylonian Empire. It was of overwhelming size and appearance.

In 539 B.C. Cyrus led the Persian army into victory over Babylon by diverting the Euphrates River during a Feast. Nothing remains today of Babylon except a series of widely scattered mounds that was luted by the USA, Iranians and other people along with the Iraqi museum . 

8- The roman wall . Hadrian’s Wall, also called the Roman Wall, Picts’ Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in 122 AD in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

9- The greek wall.Although long walls were built at several locations in ancient Greece (Corinth and Megara being two of the best known examples the Long Walls (Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη) generally refers to the walls built in several phases and connecting Athens to its ports at Piraeus and Phalerum, providing a secure connection to the sea even during times of siege. These walls were of about 6 km in length, were constructed in the mid 5th century BC, destroyed by the Spartans in 403 BC after Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War and rebuilt again with Persian support during the Corinthian War. They were a key element of Athenian strategy, since they provided the city with a constant link to the sea and prevented it from being besieged by land alone.

10-Russia–Ukraine barrier – also known as Ukrainian Wall or European Wall.

 – is a fortified border barrier currently under construction by Ukraine on the Russia–Ukraine border. The aim of the project is preventing Russian military and hybrid warfare intervention in Ukraine.The former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk presented this project on 3 rd September 2014. On 12 September 2014, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated 100 million hryvnia for the construction of fortifications on the border with Russia and on the border with Crimea. On 18 March 2015, the Ukrainian government allocated 865 million hryvnia to build fortifications on the border between Ukraine and Russia.

11- France and UK wall. CALAIS, France — So far, Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the Mexican border is all talk. Last week, France and Britain actually began building one along theirs.

Construction started here on a roughly mile-long concrete barrier intended to separate a sprawling migrant camp from the tunnels that offer passage to Britain, the latest attempt in what has become a global effort to throw physical barriers in the way of historic streams of human ­migration.

12-Donald Trump and Ted Cruz wall.

As part of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump called for the construction of a much larger and fortified wall along the Mexico-United States border, and pledged to have Mexico pay for its construction. Mexican politician Luis Videgaray Caso responded: “I say it emphatically and categorically: Mexico, under no circumstance is going to pay for the wall that Mr Trump is proposing. while in the same time the president of the phillipine gave the finger to usa and asked them out of his country. Former presidential candidate Ted Cruz also called for building a border barrier, and has supported this idea since at least April 2012. The wall is to reduce boarder crossing and watch the drug dealers who are using tunnels under the USA Mexican border. 

13- The bible talk about walls.The following is an excerpt from 

The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Revelation 21.

It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (Revelation 21:12–14).

THE LORD LIFTED SOME OF HIS PROPHETS UP IN THE SPIRIT and TOOK THEM ON A GUIDED TOUR, A SPIRIT TRIP, OF THIS GREAT CITY, and they wrote in the Bible and the Quran and told us all about its size, shape, colors and even the materials that it’s made of!

LET’S READ WHAT ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE SAID ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL PLACE: “And He carried me away in the spirit and showed me that great City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of the Heavens. And its light was like a precious stone, even like a diamond, clear as crystal! And the City was pure gold that is clear as glass!” (Rev.21:2,10,11,18)

HE goes on to say that the bottom of this great city from space is a perfect square , 1500 Miles long and 1500 miles wide! Its peak is equal to its length and width, reaching 1500 miles high into the sky! Just think how beautiful it will be!–A gigantic, mountain-shaped, pyramid-shaped City of clear crystal gold, standing on the Earth 275 times taller than the World’s tallest mountain, Mt. Everest!–How Heavenly! (Rev.21:16)

“AND IT HAD A WALL GREAT and HIGH, and TWELVE GATES, and AT THE GATES TWELVE ANGELS.” (Rev.21:12)–There was an angel guarding each gate! The fact that the City has a big tall wall and gates guarded by angels shows that there will be people outside the City who will not yet be able to enter in or enjoy its wonders-

ST. JOHN SAYS THAT AN ANGEL MEASURED THE WALL WHILE HE WAS THERE, and IT WAS 216 FEET HIGH! Its twelve 18-foot-high levels are each made of a different kind of precious stone or jewels, like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, etc! (Rev.21:17-20) Because this 1500-mile-long wall runs in a square around the base of the City, its total length is 6,000 miles!–Just imagine, 6,000 miles of gigantic diamonds, 6,000 miles of emeralds, rubies etc.! Man has never seen such beauty! 

God protected his sky and universe with gates and walls against the Evil .These walls can be wall of fires, stars and electromagnetic, radio waves, heat and meteorites and many other energy sources to prevent the falling angels of breaking into the heaven .

Steve Ramsey, PhD- Calgary.