Without walls ? How it could happen

In the past couple of years the Israeli government has built up large walls that have prevented a significant number of terrorist attacks. There is no sign that international pressure will cause Israel to remove those walls. So when I was reading in Ezekiel 38:11 the question popped up, how the prophecy be reconciled with the harsh reality of present day Israel. Can it be that somehow Israel will gain peace with their Arab neighbors that would fit this description? In my opinion that's not likely, so what to do with that verse? Nobody around there is going to disarm anytime soon ( more than a generation if ever).

I would like to suggest that the reason the land of Israel is without wall isn't due to peace, but to numbers of people accompanied by increasing economic vitality. Immigration and settlement have been one of the prime success stories in modern day Israel. Pre 1948 settlements and economic growth allowed them to survive the onslaught of the Arab League in 1948 and in all subsequent wars. It is a large factor in modern Israel's survival as a free democratic nation.

There is Biblical warrant for this mechanism, that's in Zechariah the 2nd chapter. Verse 4 tells of the great numbers of men and livestock, just what was described above. Jews have been immigrating from the north country, see vs 6, that includes Russia and Ukraine. Since the early 90's this is exactly what's been happening as 10's of thousands of Jews make aliya. Verse might be taken 2 ways depending on the meaning applied to Babylon, is it literal Iraq or is it mystical Babylon. If the first, then that's already occured in the emmigration of all Iraqi Jews in the 1950's back to Israel. If it's mystical then there may be future waves of Jewish refugees from Christian Europe or America.

Aggressive forces are being dealt with in Zechariah 2. In vs 8 YHWH describes Zion as the apple of his eye, that's the eye pupil, a very sensitive part of human anatomy. To God that shows how intensely he will protect his people. The method of protection is described here, in verse 9, it will be the slaves of those who intend to plunder Zion that will strike their masters. It's the poor and oppressed of the peoples who rise up against their rules. In today's middle east setting it's all the poor deprived among the Muslim world and Arab peoples who are beginning to realize that their rulers are self serving and greedy.

Examples are rampant:
1.3 billion taken by the interim government of Iraq
The house of Saud in Saudi Arabia taking untold billions from oil revenues
The greed of Yasser Arafat and the present Palestinian government. Billions given to them by the EU and the USA have disappeared into private bank accounts.

This isn't anything new, during WW1 individuals Arab leaders took bundles of money in exhange for military cooperation with England against the Turks. The average person never saw any of that, only the few got fat and rich.

The times already show how many of the poor in the region are starting to get wise to their corrupt leadership. Even the Saudi's are being given notice from terrorist organizations that see their government as one cause of their problems. Anarchy is coming across the entire region, it's flaring up already. That anarchy will not be able to stand up to a developed and strong Israel.

More of the context of Ezek 38 then goes on to say who will actually pose the real threat to Israel, it won't be the locals, but outside organized forces that may already be stirring in countries like Iran and Turkey. So in the end Israel will still need the help of their savior, the Lord God almighty. He will protect them.