Road map to Grand Apartheid? Ariel Sharon's South African inspiration. (Dispatches).
American Prospect, The, July, 2003 by Gorenberg, Gershom
JERUSALEM--THE BEST WAY TO UNderstand just how Ariel Sharon plans to crumple and fold the road map to Israeli-Palestinian peace is to get out on the roads of the West Bank. Drive east from Jerusalem. Pass the stone-faced apartment buildings of Ma'aleh Adumim, a suburb of 25,000 that is the largest single Israeli settlement in the territories.
Before Jericho, turn left onto a two-lane strip of asphalt that rises and plunges, in a tangle of stomach-wrenching switch-backs, through the desolate hills of the Judean Desert. To the side of the road is the settlement of Alon, a cluster of ...
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