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Israel’s transportation ministry introduced Monday what it billed as improved service for nearly 30,000 Palestinians who live under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and commute to work daily in Israel: two new bus lines “designated” for their use.
Israeli rights groups, however, denounced the move as the de facto segregation of public transportation in response to pressure from Israeli settlers who live in the West Bank but are unhappy about sharing buses with their Palestinian neighbors.
“Creating separate bus lines for Israeli Jews and Palestinians is a revolting plan,” the director of the Israeli rights group B’Tselem, Jessica Montell, told Israel’s Army Radio. Although settler leaders endorsed the plan to provide separate buses for Palestinians as necessary to prevent crowding and assuage fears of suicide bombers, Ms. Montell said: “This is simply racism. Such a plan cannot be justified with claims of security needs or overcrowding.”
Under the headline “Separate but Equal Bus Lines?,” the Tel Aviv daily Yedioth Ahronoth noted that Israeli activists from the group Peace Now heard echoes of the segregated public services for African-Americans in the 1950s in the plan. “The decision to separate bus lines in the territories is shocking and turns racism into the norm,” the activists said. “A Palestinian Rosa Parks is needed to insist upon sitting on Jewish bus lines.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/israelis-divided-over-separate-bus-lines-for-arabs-and-jews-in-occupied-west-bank/?hp
Amazing that despite decades of military occupation denying self-determination to millions, some only now cringe at segregated bus lines - @YousefMunayyer
Millions in refugee camps, millions under military occupation, but now Palestinians on separate bus lines? NOW YOU'VE CROSSED A LINE #ISRAEL - @YousefMunayyer
Bottom line on the Palestinian bus route: If there were no West Bank double-standard, there wouldn't be a need for separate bus lines. Settlements are incompatible with democracy. Israel can't keep up the double-standard forever. - @JeffreyGoldberg
Bus lines are just a symptom: Ultimate issue is political disenfranchisement. Palestinians should have a state, or the vote in Israel. - @JeffreyGoldberg
Not that there’s anything faintly like apartheid emerging on the West Bank. I mean segregated buses for residents who cannot vote is just Jim Crow, right? - Andrew Sullivan
Israeli rights groups, however, denounced the move as the de facto segregation of public transportation in response to pressure from Israeli settlers who live in the West Bank but are unhappy about sharing buses with their Palestinian neighbors.
“Creating separate bus lines for Israeli Jews and Palestinians is a revolting plan,” the director of the Israeli rights group B’Tselem, Jessica Montell, told Israel’s Army Radio. Although settler leaders endorsed the plan to provide separate buses for Palestinians as necessary to prevent crowding and assuage fears of suicide bombers, Ms. Montell said: “This is simply racism. Such a plan cannot be justified with claims of security needs or overcrowding.”
Under the headline “Separate but Equal Bus Lines?,” the Tel Aviv daily Yedioth Ahronoth noted that Israeli activists from the group Peace Now heard echoes of the segregated public services for African-Americans in the 1950s in the plan. “The decision to separate bus lines in the territories is shocking and turns racism into the norm,” the activists said. “A Palestinian Rosa Parks is needed to insist upon sitting on Jewish bus lines.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/israelis-divided-over-separate-bus-lines-for-arabs-and-jews-in-occupied-west-bank/?hp
Amazing that despite decades of military occupation denying self-determination to millions, some only now cringe at segregated bus lines - @YousefMunayyer
Millions in refugee camps, millions under military occupation, but now Palestinians on separate bus lines? NOW YOU'VE CROSSED A LINE #ISRAEL - @YousefMunayyer
Bottom line on the Palestinian bus route: If there were no West Bank double-standard, there wouldn't be a need for separate bus lines. Settlements are incompatible with democracy. Israel can't keep up the double-standard forever. - @JeffreyGoldberg
Bus lines are just a symptom: Ultimate issue is political disenfranchisement. Palestinians should have a state, or the vote in Israel. - @JeffreyGoldberg
Not that there’s anything faintly like apartheid emerging on the West Bank. I mean segregated buses for residents who cannot vote is just Jim Crow, right? - Andrew Sullivan
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SMH.
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? israel
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Unbelievable
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I second that motion, double ? them.BlackGerald wrote: »? israel
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Israel has been an apartheid regime for decades now. Its "anti-semetic" to say so though, ? them.
