Comments on: Palestinian ‘car protest’ in West Bank challenges road segregation

By: Miss Costello

Miss Costello — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:21:01 +0000

Response to ‘Gill.’

‘Whataboutery’; when someone has nothing original or intelligent to say.

By: david

david — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:12:29 +0000

ayla- those signs are written in hebrew and arabic- put up by a regional council that can continue to receive encouragement for acknowledging and starting to think together. we think those signs and road safety is a positive place of co-operation…

By: AYLA

AYLA — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:13:54 +0000

to all who protested: thank you. Keep going.

By: AYLA

AYLA — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:46:01 +0000

A friend (Jewish Israeli, human rights lawyer) was driving on a West Bank road between Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva a few weeks ago, just because it’s faster, and she saw a billboard type sign for road safety–something about not talking on your cell phone when you drive, I think–that read “Everyone is Equal on the Road” and she said she nearly ran herself off the road with outrage. Everyone is NOT equal on the road.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:46:14 +0000

I have seen just a little bit of humiliation in my world. I cannot imagine how it must be to make events such as this protest a statement of what one is. Generations have lived this. I have no advice as to what they should do next. My mind cannot comprehend the landscape they live. Some days, I replay the “Media Box” on +972′s front page. At its end, with the last of that young woman’s words, I sit awed: “We teach the world life every day.” I hope so. For the world’s sake.

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Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:19:21 +0000

[...] also frequently compare Israeli soldiers to Nazis.On Tuesday, for instance, after Israeli officers blocked Palestinians from using a road reserved for settlers near the West Bank town of Jericho on Tuesday, one outraged [...]

By: Joe Laurence

Joe Laurence — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:42:27 +0000

My hard earned American tax money goes to support these fascist policies and this is what makes me ANGRY. Peaceful resistance is key I think this protest was effective.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:27:55 +0000

An effective demonstration in the spirit of Gandhi.

To succeed, they should undertake it twice weekly until it receives widespread international attention.

It should remain limited to the specific complaint (“Israeli/Jewish only”), and not get spread thin into other even related issues.

By: sh

sh — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:05:11 +0000

Israeli-only roads are no better than Jew-only roads, but they are different. But foreign number-plates from the countries with which we have those “cold peaces” seem to be allowed on them too. In effect the only people inconvenienced by this stricture are those who live in the areas they run through who are not Jewish. Such are the twisted ways of occupation.

By: harvey stein

harvey stein — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:55:52 +0000

Yitzhak – I’ve travelled with Palestinian-Israelis in the West Bank. Many times they (not me) were pulled out of lines at checkpoints, and their IDs were examined for 10-20 minutes. Only then were they finally allowed to pass. Also, I’ve been in cars with Palestinian bedouins – we were (of course) refused entrance into settlements, for example, into Maale Adumim. The Palestinian bedouins east of Jerusalem, live in encampments which are regarded as totally illegal by Israel. Often their tents or shacks are demolished because of this. Meanwhile, nearby Maale Adumim is of course zoned for legal residences (but Palestinian bedouins can’t live in them). There’s a problem here – how do you think we should solve it???