Uh, Segregated Buses aren’t the Issue on the West Bank, Folks

Juan Cole 03/12/2013

Russia Today reports on the controversy over Israel’s segregated bus lines for Palestinians coming in and out of the West Bank.

UAE’s The National has more.

It is a little odd that the segregated buses should have caused an uproar whereas the Israeli illegal de facto annexation of the Palestinian West Bank and settling it with Jews-only colonies seems to be all right with people.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page