How you can get around the West Bank depends on who you are. We took two bus trips, one with Palestinians and one with Israelis, that tell a story of separate and unequal roadways.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21354602

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  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    91·
    17 days ago

    Ta Nehisi Coates has been talking about this, openly, on mainstream media of late, which I’ve been shocked they allow, but I guess he’s burning his political capital from the last X years of being a media darling for a good cause. We need way more influential people willing to do that.

    • DarthJon@lemmy.world
      12·
      13 days ago

      Coates thinks he’s an expert on Israel because he took one trip sponsored by Palestinian activist organizations and openly admits that he was only there to hear one side of the story.

      • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
        2·
        13 days ago

        Yes, there’s no apartheid streets Palestinians can’t walk on. That is all antisemitic lies made with AI, right? You’re obviously a Jewish supremacist. Go away, you lying, ethnosupremacist trash.

        • DarthJon@lemmy.world
          12·
          13 days ago

          Typical. Can’t engage in a discussion, huh? I’m guessing that’s because you know as much about Israel as Coates does.

          There are roads that both Israelis and Palestinians are prevented from using FOR SECURITY PURPOSES. That’s the problem with Coates’ perspective, he refuses to even ask how it got to this point. He just looks around, sees fences and soldiers acting as security guards and says, “This feels like apartheid.”

  • filister@lemmy.world
    61·
    17 days ago

    And then Israel is surprised that there is a tension with the Israeli. I wonder how they would feel if they were on the other side of the fence.