The Road Less Travelled
- - - - by Yoel.Ben-Avraham
The "upside" of the news item describing the IDF's decision to forbid Jewish traffic on major highways in Judea & samaria is that all those Palestinian loving Jews on the radical Left will now feel better about all the money Israel invested in "by-pass" roads during the Oslo period.
The roads in question were originally created to make it possible for Israeli traffic to travel through the non-Palestinian controlled areas safely, while permitting a withdrawal of Israel security forces from Palestinian controlled areas. From time to time I would read of the "hundreds of millions" spent on roads intended for "settlers Only" as I would stand on the side of these roads watching Arab traffic pass by, waiting for the occasional Jew to offer me a lift.Now these roads will become forbidden to Jewish traffic, and THAT will be a reason to rejoice!
The roads in question were originally created to make it possible for Israeli traffic to travel through the non-Palestinian controlled areas safely, while permitting a withdrawal of Israel security forces from Palestinian controlled areas. From time to time I would read of the "hundreds of millions" spent on roads intended for "settlers Only" as I would stand on the side of these roads watching Arab traffic pass by, waiting for the occasional Jew to offer me a lift.Now these roads will become forbidden to Jewish traffic, and THAT will be a reason to rejoice!