Court: Allow Palestinian movement on West Bank road
The Supreme Court ruled that restrictions caused undue hardship to Palestinians who live in the area.
By The Associated Press Tags: Israel Supreme Court Israel news Palestinians West BankIsrael's Supreme Court ruled Thursday against military regulations prohibiting Palestinian motorists from using a West Bank road, but stopped short of banning a widespread security measure that has drawn charges of discrimination.
The Israeli human rights group behind the appeal said it hoped the court would go further and declare the practice illegal. Many central routes in the West Bank are off-limits to Palestinian drivers because of military restrictions imposed after shooting attacks against Israelis.
Once common, such attacks are rare today.
Thursday's decision gives the Israeli government three months to find a more proportionate method of protecting Israeli drivers on the road, located in the southern West Bank. The decision recognized the government's right to impose such restrictions to protect Israelis, but said that in this case they caused undue hardship to Palestinians who live in the area.
The decision came as the result of an appeal from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel on behalf of the residents of 22 Palestinian villages affected by the restrictions. In a statement, the group said it was pleased with the ruling but regretted that the court did not address the legality of such an immoral and extreme practice.
The group said it hoped the court would rule against similar restrictions on other West Bank roads.
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"Many central routes in the West Bank are off-limits to Palestinian drivers because of military restrictions imposed after shooting attacks against Israelis. Once common, such attacks are rare today. " QED. So when the restrictions are lifted again, G-d forbid, attacks will become common again. The solution to the problem of killed Israelis worked so well that the state forgot the problem. When the problem recurs, the outrage will be so great the state will close the road again, having lost a few citizens because of bad memory.
The Palestinians are "decendents of Hagar"? My goodness, this is real to you people, isn't it? What complete madness! but I suppose it is important for those outside to understand how it is possible for so many Israelis to maintain apathy about the dehumanization of Palestinians. Just how many Israelis live in this warped "descendents of Hagar vs. descendents of Sarah" mental world? Is it not just the settlers? Here in the US, we would call this kind of thinking the stuff of fringe cult groups, and the sort of thing that leads 900 people to move to South America and drink poisoned kool-aid. Any chance you "descendents of Sarah" who are so worried about fighting the "descendents of Hagar" might drink some kool-aid so the rest of us in the modern human race can get on with the evolution of human ethics?
When you tresspass on other peoples land carrying Uzi's, not to mention stealing that land and building illegal homes for foreigners thereon, what do you expect?
The Israeli supreme court is about as effective as a tit on a bull. The government ignores it, the IDF ignores it. Israelis treat it with contempt. It is feckless and not even funny.
Ironic isn't it. That Israel's Supreme Court, who have no legal Jurisdiction in Occupied Territories, has to tell the Occupier to obey the law. What a farce.
A neighbor in Efrat was driving home two summers ago when a "freedom fighter" hurled a rock through the driver's window. It broke her skull and she was in intensive care for weeks. As an indiscriminate attack on an Israeli civilian, Goldstone correctly calls this a war crime, and not "legitimate resistance to the occupation". The restrictions on the Palestinians are there because of the war crimes they commit. Again, it's not me calling them war crimes, but the UN (Goldstone), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (both of these orgs issued reports calling Pal attacks on Israeli civilians "crimes against humanity and most likely war crimes"). It's been worse, like the woman and her two young children burned to death with a Palestinian through a molotov cocktail into an Egged bus traveling in the Jordan Valley. It's time to stop Palestinian war crimes.
Would you like to drive down the street minding your own business and all of a sudden your vehicle is PELTED with a series of rocks which cause you panic and get into an accident, ishmael what dont you understand. Security against from the decendents of Hagar oh yea your name is ishmael who woulda thunk.
So the Palestinian need Israel's Supreme Court ruling in order to use there roads! really what a joke!.
Esther I hope the Palestinians will be given their rights from A to Z !
Court rulings should have the effect of law since they represent a thorough and complete study of the conditions and human rights. Unfortunately Israeli leadership has viewed court rulings as advisory while they give settler input priority status.