Posted on 12/29/2006 9:28:22 AM PST by Alouette
Daily humiliation on roads will lead to another Palestinian uprising
Yehuda Litani Published: 12.29.06, 09:39
In the last days of 2006, an Arab friend who is an Israeli citizen offered that I join him on a drive from Jerusalem to Ramallah and back. "I want to drive one of my employees who lives in Ramallah to her home – come with us so you can see with your own eyes what happens on those roads," the friend said. After all, most Israelis are unaware of what's happening there. We passed through the neighborhoods of Shuafat and Beit Hanina quickly, yet when we reached the Dahiat al-Barid neighborhood on the outskirts of Ramallah, the story started to unfold.
At the heart of the neighborhood (still within the boundaries of greater Jerusalem) near the separation fence (wall), a roadblock was positioned on the main road to Ramallah along with three Border Guard police officers who prevented cars from passing through (including our car, which bore Israeli license plates.)
The Ramallah resident we were driving (an Arab Israeli married to a resident of the West Bank) recommended that the driver turn right to a dirt road that bypasses the fence. We droved over stones and potholes for about 20 minutes until we again reached the main road, all the way to the Kalandiya refugee camp and from there to Ramallah. Not even one police officer or soldier stopped us on the way there, which took about an hour and a half. Before the separation fence was erected, this drive would take 15 minutes at most.
Our passenger told us that the drives to Jerusalem and back take three hours or more in total. Now the real story begins, she said, as the drive to Jerusalem is much more difficult than the drive to Ramallah. Indeed, we spent almost three hours on the road in an annoying wait amidst hundreds of cars belonging to Palestinian West Bank residents and Israeli settlers, until the long-awaited-for arrival at the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood roadblock, where a grim-faced female soldier was checking IDs.
If this slow wait was meant to advance security needs, then there were countless chances for terrorists to take over settler vehicles if they wanted to.
My friend the driver, the Arab citizen of Israel, told me that because of his work he drives to Ramallah at least twice a week, and every time the humiliating driving experience repeats. Look at the Palestinian faces, he told me. It's as if they're indifferent, yet in every such ride another 10 young men join terror groups. Nothing happened here during our ride, nobody was hurt or killed, he said, yet the humiliation is too difficult to bear. Ninety nine percent of the people here are traveling to work and back, and every day their hatred to you grows. I have no doubt, he added, that the explosion will happen soon and that 2007 will be the year of the Intifada's renewal, as the Palestinians feel that they can no longer bear the suffering.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised in his last meeting with Mahmoud Abbas to remove roadblocks within the West Back, but IDF officials oppose this for fear of terrorist infiltration. I hereby advise all the objectors to drive, even once, from Jerusalem to Ramallah or from Ramallah to Nablus, in order to sense the population's suffering and see that the terrorists can reach anywhere if they only wanted to.
So if in a few weeks or months, when we are told that the Intifada is being renewed, we won't be surprised at all.
"Humiliation" for a Moslem is when his boot is not on your neck.
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If the Pales quit glorifying terrorist murder of women and children the Israelis could lighten up.
Until then, stay safe.
Well-said. Clearly, the worse thing that can happen to a Muslim is to be "humiliated." I mean, these guys are still stinging from the "humiliation" of the first few crusades.
"the Palestinians feel that they can no longer bear the suffering."
I'm afraid this part of the article eluded me. Is the horrible suffering being reported here the delay at the checkpoint? It's a good thing this guy doesn't live in LA!
Too bad, If you want to have a quicker ride, stop you Hamas goverment from inciting and participating in terrorist activities. Since that isnt going to happen, I hope you have good music to listen to in your car.
Wow and WTF!?!
"Humiliation" to this man was to have to wait in slow moving traffic for three hours and have his picture ID checked???
That happens to me going to O'Hare airport. Damn the feminized liberal journalists!
My son did checkpoint duty during his stint in the IDF two years ago.
Nobody ever mentions the suffering, including the threat to their lives, that the IDF soldiers have to endure at these checkpoints.
I just cannot understand why these people cannot put two and two together. When they attack Israeli civilians, more checkpoints and roadblocks go up. Fire more rockets and the wait at these checkpoints increases because the checks become more involved.
If these folks are really tired of this kind of thing then giving up the mantra of driving the jews into the sea would go a long way toward positive change.
Could it be that they really are that backwards and lacking in common sense that they cannot understand that their own actions are causing the very things they complain about?
If these folks really want to see a change in their lives then they have to learn to love their own children more than they hate everyone that is not like them. They also have to learn that their own actions have consequences.
When it comes right down to it, these folks have to look at their own ability to bring about the changes they seek...finally understanding that jihad and itafada only make things worse for them.
You have point! Isn't a three hour commute per day rather common in some large cities? How about three hour delay at the airport? I guess I can now sue New York City and FFA for "humiliation".
Exactly.
As far as I can tell, "intifada" is the Paleo-simian way of life.
It's their lifestyle.
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He says they are waiting 3 hours to go to work. Why dont they find work in their craphole if they dont like it.
They hate Israel yet thats where the jobs are,becasue they are too busy building bombs to kill their employers.
Screw em.
For unskilled, illiterates unable to form a government that isn't overflowing with corruption these people have a lot of pride.
I'm not sure what they are proud of, living in squalor and being completely dependant upon the benevolence of the Jews they hate so much doesn't seem like something one would take pride in.
"I just cannot understand why these people cannot put two and two together."
Ans: Irrational, psychotic Death Cult
"Could it be that they really are that backwards and lacking in common sense that they cannot understand that their own actions are causing the very things they complain about?"
Ans: Irrational, psychotic Death Cult
When speaking of the Palestinians the first rule of discourse is: Avoid speaking rationally or using common sense. You are speaking of people who not only have no interest in rational thought, they have no concept of it.
The second rule of discourse is: Never forget that the sole purpuse, function and goal of Palestinians is to murder every single jew on the planet.
If you stick to those 2 rules you'll be able to conduct a conversation with and about Palestinians.
In the Wash DC area, I find that if I leave for work 15 minutes after peak rush hour it cuts my desire for intifada in half.
Break out the dreaded panties as long as the palesites are whining..
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No, you can't sue them...
...but you can launch 4-5 missiles per day into the city as recompense.
:-P
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