{"id":1924,"date":"2007-04-10T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2007-04-10T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:43:10","slug":"highway-90-reveals-west-bank-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Highway 90 reveals West Bank situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY ELLEN CREAGER<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070408\/FEATURES07\/704080525\/1032\">FREE PRESS TRAVEL WRITER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JERICHO, West Bank &#8212; There is not much traffic on Highway 90 through the West Bank. That&#8217;s because only Israelis can drive on it, with the exception of a few Palestinians with special permits.<\/p>\n<p>But, I don&#8217;t get it. What is an Israeli road doing in Palestinian territory?<\/p>\n<p>Stupid me. Like many Americans, I always somehow pictured the West Bank as entirely Palestinian. Actually, about 60% of it, including the eastern border area near Jordan, is controlled by Israel&#8217;s military. That&#8217;s why there are lots of checkpoints. And certain roads only for Israelis. And certain military areas nobody can enter.<\/p>\n<p>For an American traveler, it&#8217;s one confusing, educational ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070408\/FEATURES07\/704080525\/1032\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY ELLEN CREAGER FREE PRESS TRAVEL WRITER JERICHO, West Bank &#8212; There is not much traffic on Highway 90 through the West Bank. That&#8217;s because only Israelis can drive on it, with the exception of a few Palestinians with special &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1924\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-v2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}