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‘Walls divide and segregate’ — New Marine video might apply to Israel

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Screenshot: United States Marine Corps recruitment video: Wall

Below is a new recruitment video from the U.S. Marine Corps called “Wall”, published on the Marines’ official YouTube around 3 weeks ago on March 17 and appearing regularly on CBS and TBS during the NCAA basketball tournament.

Walls are barriers. They divide, separate, and segregate. We’ve seen walls before, and they’ve always fallen.

Hmmm. I find it auspicious. The Marines probably are not referencing the Great Wall of China. And Berlin’s fell in ’89. Indeed, there’s only a couple of walls I can think of that have garnered international attention lately, and it’s reasonable to assume this video is not talking about the one we’re building between ourselves and Mexico nor the miles and miles of Bremer walls we built all over Iraq and Afghanistan (which have gotten very little press here in the U.S.).

So with that in mind, check out the video:

Does it have a biblical reference? Or is this a veiled threat to Israel?

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I agree. Its certainly up to an individuals interpretation what this commercial spot is about. Walls? Yes. But its a curious spot. Appealing to future marines on at least 2 levels maybe even 3. A) serving the US and b)blowing stuff up. I can’t deny that those who are focused on Israel would naturally think of the security barrier though I don’t see why the US/Mexican wall wouldn’t be what a Mexican/Hispanic living in the US with a family in Mexico/CA/SA would be thinking about.
Still, all in all, its an odd spot and maybe the person who created it was thinking of Israel. Who knows.

*walls in Belfast , Saudi A., Korea as well.

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The sound of goat decidedly makes it Middle East.

For me the crux of the image is the desolate area in the compound (?) ghetto (?) and green and pleasant land on the other side? Water apartheid, anyone?

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On the other hand, it has a quality of video game, so it may be reference to game i’m not familiar with. If it will be removed quickly, after a howl of protests, we will know it had dissident undercurrent

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RE: “Walls are barriers. They divide, separate, and segregate. We’ve seen walls before, and they’ve always fallen.” ~ Marines’ recruitment ad

MY QUESTION: Might that ad be a wee bit beyond the pale? Enquiring minds mimes want to know!™

SEE “BEYOND THE PALE”, phrases.org.uk:

[EXCERPT] . . . This ‘pale’ is the noun meaning ‘a stake or pointed piece of wood’. That meaning is virtually obsolete now except as used in this phrase, but is still in use in the associated words ‘paling’ (as in paling fence) and ‘impale’ (as in Dracula movies).
The paling fence is significant as the term pale became to mean the area enclosed by such a fence and later just the figurative meaning of ‘the area that is enclosed and safe’. So, to be ‘beyond the pale’ was to be outside the area accepted as ‘home’.
Catherine the Great created the Pale of Settlement in Russia in 1791. This was the name given to the western border region of the country, in which Jews were allowed to live. The motivation behind this was to restrict trade between Jews and native Russians. Some Jews were allowed to live, as a concession, ‘beyond the pale’.
Pales were enforced in various other European countries for similar political reasons, notably in Ireland (the Pale of Dublin) and France (the Pale of Calais, which was formed as early as 1360). . .

SOURCE – http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html

• JPEG IMAGE OF A PALE / PALING FENCE (a screen capture from the film Arn: The Knight Templar, 2007)

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No way to find out who made the video, and for whom? Then ask appropriate person(s)?

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