IDF Response to Rioters Keeps Roads Open for Commuters
WIN-WIN SCENARIO It is clear to all sides that if there is quiet in the area the primary beneficiaries will be the residents both Jews and Arabs (Photos: Flash90)
D epending on where in the world you drive road rage takes different forms and calls for different countermeasures. Commuters in Judea and Samaria for example often find their routes blocked by stone-throwing tire-burning Palestinian rioters. It is a gloomy fact of life so routine it doesn’t make the evening news and the IDF has been challenged to formulate a response more effective than simply closing roads.
Two recent cases in point in the Binyamin administrative area: A few weeks ago on Highway 60 — the transportation spine of the West Bank — motorists found themselves under a hail of rocks as they traveled by the Arab village of Sinjil about halfway between Jerusalem and Shechem adjacent to the settlements of Shiloh and Eli.
Around the same time a Jewish driver on Highway 60 had to fire his weapon to fend off Arab attackers from the town of Huwwarah near Shechem. The next day — a Friday the traditional day of Muslim unrest in the region — saw an angry upsurge in crowds hurling projectiles and lighting fires.
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