Odd Comparison

Here's Dan Bilefsky's description of "a 500-foot-long, 7-foot-high concrete wall that separates a Roma ghetto from the neatly manicured homes of gadzos, or white people, on the other side" in Slovakia:

The gray barrier evokes the West Bank or cold war Berlin

Is there terror there?

If not, why should that barrier "evoke" a comparison with our security barrier?