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Controversial E. Jerusalem road stands empty one year after completion
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: East Jerusalem, Israel News 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for December 22, 2008.

The construction of a controversial road built in East Jerusalem was completed roughly one year ago, but it has yet to see a single car.

The so-called road, which required the expropriation of Palestinian lands, cost NIS 120 million to build, and is designed to connect the West Bank settlements surrounding Jerusalem to the capital.
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Peace organizations, Palestinian groups, and the international community have all protested its construction, which they see as a part of Israel's intention to expand the borders of Jerusalem well into the West Bank.

The national road company blames the fact that the road hasn't opened on the Defense Ministry, which it says is lagging in its promise to build a security checkpoint to search Palesitinian cars.


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