Update from an earlier post, where I commented on the "separate but unequal" regime emerging between Palestinians and Israeli settlers on the West Bank. Now, the Christian Science Monitor reports:
Israeli Supreme Court: Open 'apartheid' road to Palestinians: "Israel's Supreme Court ordered a segregated West Bank highway to be opened for Palestinian use. But rights groups say 10 more 'apartheid' roads should be opened too.
In the first ruling of its kind, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the Israeli army on Thursday to allow Palestinians to travel on a West Bank road they had been banned from using.
"The Supreme Court never made a decision before relating to a particular place where Palestinians are banned from driving on a road just for being Palestinians," said Nirit Moskovich of the Association for Human Rights Israel (ACRI), the group filing the case on behalf of 22 Palestinian villages south of Hebron. ACRI is disappointed, however, that the Supreme Court did not seize the opportunity to make a ruling on segregated roads in general, she added.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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