At first glance this looks like nothing more than a security measure.
We are talking about Israeli -run transportation systems.
We are talking about people who are not Israeli citizens, being barred from such transport, yes?
The Israelis and the Palestinians are at-war, for all intents and purposes.
This measure appears to be security-related, not a matter of ethnicity or race.
If I were in charge of such transportation systems, and given the Palestinians inclination to Intifade and suicide bombings and their insane hatred for Jews and Israelis, I would have banned them from taking Israeli public transportation rather than waiting until just now.
Besides - and again, only a first glance - they are not barred altogether - merely from certain routes with sensitive connections to central Israel - the Palestinians can still use parts of the system but must go further out of their way to get to them - and must stay away from routes whose vehicles go deeper into Israel itself.
Not exactly the end of the world, and certainly not the poster-child for Apartheid and Racism that the rabid Palestinian apologists and fifth-columnists around here would have the more naive and gullible to believe.
I ain't buyin' it...
Except it has absolutely nothing to do with "security" and everything to do with racist Jews stealing what's left of the land between the River and the sea:
"As I have
noted in a previous article, in 2012, also in Haaretz, renowned journalist Gideon Levy published the results of a poll that found “
Most Israeli Jews Would Support Apartheid Regime in Israel.'
"This study, 'expos[ing] anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views espoused by a majority of Israeli Jews,' was not based on an internet survey.
"It was conducted by Dialog and directed by professor Camil Fuchs, Haaretz’s polling expert and head of the Department of Statistics at Tel Aviv University’s School of Mathematical Science, and commissioned by the Yisraela Goldblum Fund.
"The study revealed the following unsavory facts about Israeli society:
– 59% want preference for Jews over Arabs in admission to jobs in government ministries.
– 49% want the state to treat Jewish citizens better than Arab ones.
– 42% don’t want to live in the same building with Arabs.
– 42% don’t want their children in the same class with Arab children.
– c. 33% want a law barring Israeli Arabs from voting for the Knesset.
– 69% object to giving 2.5 million Palestinians the right to vote if Israel annexes the West Bank.
– 74% majority are in favor of separate roads for Israelis and Palestinians.
– 24% believe separate roads are 'a good situation.'
– 50% believe separate roads are 'a necessary situation.'
– 47% want part of Israel’s Arab population to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority.
– 36% support transferring some of the Arab towns from Israel to the PA, in exchange for keeping some of the West Bank settlements.
– 38% want Israel to annex the territories with settlements on them.
– 31% don’t admit that Israel practices apartheid against Arabs.
– 58% do admit that Israel practices apartheid against Arabs.
In August 2014, Haaretz released a report titled “
Israeli teenagers: Racist and proud of it,” revealing that “Ethnic hatred has become a basic element in the everyday life of Israeli youth.” The piece opens with a quote from a 10th-grade Israeli girl from a high school in the central part of the country.
"'For me, personally, Arabs are something I can’t look at and can’t stand. I am tremendously racist. I come from a racist home. If I get the chance in the army to shoot one of them, I won’t think twice. I’m ready to kill someone with my hands, and it’s an Arab. In my education I learned that … their education is to be terrorists, and there is no belief in them. I live in an area of Arabs, and every day I see these Ishmaelites, who pass by the [bus] station and whistle. I wish them death.'"
Not exactly a glowing testimonial for democracy and self-determination, is it, Yeppers?
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