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Peace Now: Gov't investing excessively in West Bank roads

By Haaretz Service

Activist organization Peace Now on Sunday published a report maintaining that Israel's government is disproportionately investing money in West Bank roads, while neglecting those across Israel.

Amidst a wave of lethal traffic accidents over the past week, Peace Now released a statement saying that "many crashes are caused by poor road conditions, lack of safety precautions and low maintenance, while in the West Bank the investment in the quality of roads continues."

According to the report, at least 6 new roads, some 33 kilometers each, are currently being built to service West Bank settlers. The cost of these projects, according to a Peace Now probe, is at least NIS 315 million. All these roads are being built east of the West Bank separation fence, and serve a very small number of people, the report maintains.

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Also in the report, the group maintains that the government invests a minimum of NIS 50,000 per vehicle in the West Bank, not including safety expenditures. The roads are built solely for settlers and are not intended for use by Palestinians.

The organization staged a demonstration on Sunday by a nearly completed road, which is intended to link Jerusalem and four settlements southeast of the city. The construction of the 10-kilometer road, which comprises four lanes and three bridges, is estimated to cost NIS 142 million. However, it is due to service fewer than 500 vehicles.

Following a deadly car accident on the Arava highway in southern Israel last Monday, it was announced that government could not afford the NIS 10 million needed to erect a separation railing on that stretch of road, a railing that could potentially save lives. However, the report continues, the Israel Defense Forces have set up a 41 kilometer separation railing along a road south of Mt. Hebron. The West bank railing serves not as a safety precaution, Peace Now says, but as a means to prevent Palestinian goats and sheep from entering the road.

The High Court of Justice later ruled that the barrier railing was illegal and ordered the IDF to tear it down. According to Peace Now, the cost of erecting and dismantling this railing was approximately NIS 80 million.

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1.	aparthed roads	15:58	\|	disgusted	26/08/07

2.	Peace Now is full of it.	15:59	\|	Avraham	26/08/07

3.	#1 Every day Muslims throw Rocks at Jews	16:25	\|	Linda Rivera	26/08/07

4.	avraham 2	16:31	\|	realism	26/08/07

5.	Calling Peace Now terrorists (#2)	16:39	\|	Eyal	26/08/07

6.	Peace Now= Kahane =Hamas	16:44	\|	THE NEW YORKER	26/08/07

7.	Peace Now = Foreign Agents = Traitors	16:57	\|	Sam Weinstein	26/08/07

8.	NO Avraham. PEACE NOW IS SAVING TJS.	17:00	\|	Isaak	26/08/07

9.	Why Doesn`t Peace Now Ever Get Elected to Gov.t?	17:00	\|	Mike	26/08/07

10.	"Peace Now" Leftists ignore Enviro Problems at Home - Tel Aviv	17:07	\|	Lemmings Hotline	26/08/07

11.	what are peace now`s motives?	17:28	\|	bob	26/08/07

12.	Ya Twits, goats & sheep on the road are a safety hazard!	17:43	\|	Mefisto	26/08/07

13.	Peace Now is living in the past	17:50	\|	Avram	26/08/07

14.	# 3 Linda	17:52	\|	JJ	26/08/07

15.	Ass-lickers.	17:53	\|	M. Franks-Lhermann	26/08/07

16.	#7 Sam Weinstein the foreigner from the US of A	17:55	\|	Ari ben Yisrael	26/08/07

17.	Peace Now equal Al Qaida school of thought under western diguise	18:05	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

18.	Peace Now should keep up the good work. I endorse them fully!	18:30	\|	Hassan Nasrallah	26/08/07

19.	Apartheid at it`s premium	18:57	\|	MA	26/08/07

20.	Everything shall be construed as legal and moral to end arabs occ	18:59	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

21.	Peace never	19:02	\|	Frank	26/08/07

22.	Kadima Gov`t did not cut the budget of ministry of transport	19:13	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

23.	You have to be a graduate of a hardened combat unit	19:21	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

24.	Opposition to Zionism by Arab League and Al Qaida branches	19:34	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

25.	#14 JJ-Jew-HATERS are Vehemently Opposed to Jews Living Anywhere	19:44	\|	Linda Rivera	26/08/07

26.	Peace Now: Daily EXPERIENCE the Peace Process: Move to Sderot	19:48	\|	Linda Rivera	26/08/07

27.	Gosh, how much they have Jews ...	21:01	\|	Dan Shapira	26/08/07

28.	# 25 Linda Rivera @ New York	21:14	\|	Joseph E . post 2	26/08/07

29.	linda rivera 25	21:25	\|	realism	26/08/07

30.	Possibilities	21:56	\|	Mark Lincoln	26/08/07

31.	29: Surrealism misses the point	22:08	\|	David Teich	26/08/07

32.	# 29 realism	22:43	\|	Joseph E .	26/08/07

33.	#1, disgusted, makes excellent observations	22:59	\|	Ivar	26/08/07

34.	david teich 32	23:47	\|	realism	26/08/07

35.	David Teich	00:31	\|	Mark Lincoln	27/08/07

36.	joseph e 32	05:22	\|	realism	27/08/07

37.	Surrealism confused	19:13	\|	David Teich	27/08/07

38.	Mark`s still rather silly down in Houston	19:18	\|	David Teich	27/08/07

39.	david teich	22:40	\|	realism	27/08/07

40.	An RoR primer for surrealism	12:10	\|	David Teich	28/08/07

41.	39: Wow, surreal, you really are confused (2nd try)	16:08	\|	David Teich	28/08/07

42.	Mark Lincoln	04:15	\|	Silvienne	29/08/07

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