Roads along West Bank closed to Palestinians.(WORLD)

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Byline: Abraham Rabinovich, THE WASHINGTON TIMES JERUSALEM - Sections of the main road running along the spine of the West Bank hills were closed off to Palestinian traffic yesterday, and Israeli officials portrayed this as the first step in a long-range plan to separate Israeli and Palestinian traffic completely and to sever contacts between the two populations.

The road closings came in the wake of drive-by shootings Sunday that left three Israelis dead and several wounded. Within hours of the incident, the government ordered the army to implement a contingency plan leading to separation of the Israeli and Palestinian populations. The plan, which calls for the construction of bypasses and bridges, would create a Palestinian-only and Israeli-only road...