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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-apartheid-wall-that-isnt/
The "Apartheid" Wall that Isn't
(JNS) Stephen M. Flatow - "Israel Opens 'Apartheid Road'" in West Bank, Al Jazeera headlined this week. The latest "Israeli racism" allegation is a highway called Route 4370, northeast of Jerusalem. There is a physical barrier down the middle of the highway. Israeli traffic goes on one side, Palestinian Arab traffic on the other. Is that apartheid? Of course not. On the Israeli side, Israeli Jews, Muslims and Christians are all permitted to drive. There is a good reason for the separation because on Israeli roads in the West Bank, there have been numerous drive-by shootings or stonings from passing cars by Palestinian Arabs. The Palestinian Authority has, for the past 25 years, fed its citizens a daily diet of anti-Jewish hatred and glorification of anti-Jewish violence, producing hostile and violent people. Why in the world would Israel expose its citizens to such dangers on its roads? The fact that Israel spends millions of shekels building roads for Palestinian Arabs is a remarkable act of unreciprocated generosity. The international community should be heaping praise on the Israelis for kindness, not harassing the Jewish state with lies about "apartheid."