Quote Of The Week: 27.2.07

We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities. Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one - progressive, liberal - in Israel; and the other - cruel, injurious - in the occupied territories. In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture. That oppressive regime exists to this day.

-- Michael Ben-Yair (Israeli's Attorney-General 1993-1996), The War's Seventh Day; Ha'aretz, 3 March 2002.

The Hebron-Halhoul road, 19 Sept 2003. The paved road on the left is for Israelis. The partially-paved road on the right, obstructed by two dirt roadblocks, is for Palestinians. (via Christian Peacemaker Teams).