{"id":283540,"date":"2019-01-17T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/?p=283540"},"modified":"2019-01-17T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:52:29","slug":"israel-builds-roads-for-palestinians-apartheid-segregation-not-even-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/es\/israel-builds-roads-for-palestinians-apartheid-segregation-not-even-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The ‘Apartheid’ Wall That Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

The international community should be heaping praise on the Israelis for kindness, not harassing the Jewish state with lies about \u201capartheid.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

By Stephen M. Flatow, JNS<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSegregated Highway Opens in West Bank,\u201d\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0headline blared this week. \u201cIsrael Opens \u2018Apartheid Road\u2019 in Occupied West Bank,\u201d announced\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Apartheid<\/a>? Segregation? Not even close. Like so much of what pretends to be news reporting about Israel these days, this latest \u201cIsraeli racism\u201d allegation is just another cheap attempt to smear the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

This newest prop in the Palestinian Arab propaganda war against Israel 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.<\/p>\n

Is that apartheid? Of course not. Apartheid means separating people on the basis of their race. Jews, of course, are not a race; and neither are Arabs. On both sides of the divider, there will be drivers of various hues. Dark-skinned Ethiopian Jews alongside light-skinned Russian Jews. Dark-skinned Arabs alongside light-skinned Arabs.<\/p>\n

How about religion? Is the traffic divided according to religion? Not at all. On the Israeli side, Israeli Jews, Muslims and Christians are all permitted to drive. On the Arab side, Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians drive.<\/p>\n

How about ethnicity? Is it divided according to ethnicity?\u00a0\u00a0Of course not. Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs are both driving on one side. Palestinians who are of Egyptian origin, Palestinians of Syrian origin and Palestinians of Lebanese origin are all driving on their side.<\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s not \u201capartheid.\u201d And it\u2019s not racial, religious or ethnic \u201csegregation.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is it, then? Simple. It\u2019s a division based on citizenship.<\/p>\n

Israeli citizens\u2014of all races, religions and ethnicities\u2014are permitted to drive on one side. Non-citizens\u2014of all races, religions and ethnicities\u2014are allowed to drive on the other.<\/p>\n

And for good reason. Because on Israeli roads in Judea-Samaria where non-citizens have been permitted access, there have been numerous drive-by shootings by Palestinian Arab non-citizens. There have also been stonings in which Palestinian Arab non-citizens threw rocks from cars because their deadliness has been greatly increased by the speed of the automobiles. That\u2019s how American citizens Asher Palmer<\/a> and his infant son, Yonatan, were murdered in 2011.<\/p>\n

The presumption in Israel is that those who are citizens of Israel\u2014whether Jew, Muslim or Christian\u2014generally can be trusted to be loyal to the state and not likely to engage in terrorism. Obviously, there are exceptions. But by and large, that presumption is accurate.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Palestinian Arab non-citizens are engaged in anti-Jewish violence at an alarmingly high rate. There is no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they will be kind or even simply non-violent; they are, after all, citizens of a regime that regards itself as Israel\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n

A Society Drenched in Anti-Semitism<\/h2>\n

More than that, the Palestinian Authority regime has, for the past 25 years, fed its citizens a daily diet of anti-Jewish hatred and glorification of anti-Jewish violence in their schools, television, radio, newspapers and all other segments of their culture. It is a society drenched in anti-Semitism. Meaning, it is the one society most likely to produce hostile and violent people. Why in the world would Israel expose its citizens to such dangers on its roads?<\/p>\n

Every country in the world has different rules for citizens and non-citizens. That\u2019s not apartheid. It\u2019s not segregation. It\u2019s common-sense rule of law. What would be the point of even having citizenship if non-citizens were governed by the same regulations?<\/p>\n

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 \u201capartheid.\u201d But I guess we\u2019ve all gotten used to that kind of treatment by now.<\/p>\n

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. His book, \u201cA Father\u2019s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror,\u201d is available on Amazon.<\/em><\/p>\n

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