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In order to incorporate the West Bank and East Jerusalem permanently into Israel proper,
a $3 billion system of highways and "by-pass roads" has been constructed that integrates
the settlement blocs into the metropolitan areas of Tel Aviv, Modi'in and Jerusalem,
while creating additional barriers to Palestinian movement.
This ambitious project
articulates with the Trans-Israeli Highway, now being built along the entire length of the
country, hugging the West Bank in its central portion. Shifting Israel's population center
eastward from the coast to the corridor separating Israel's major cities from the
settlement blocs it seeks to incorporate, the Trans-Israel Highway will become the new
spine of the country, upon which the by-pass road network can be hung. The result is the
reconfiguration of the country from two parallel north-south units - Israel and the West
Bank, the basis of the two state idea - into one country integrated east-west. Besides
ensuring Israeli control, the reorientation of traffic, residential and commercial patterns
further weakens a truncated Palestinian mini-state; each Palestinian canton is integrated
separately into Israel, with only tenuous connections one to the other.
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Datum: 23.07.06
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