“We fought for a country for 70 years — a country for Jews. I don’t understand why we don’t give Palestinians what we struggled for before.”
Anti-settlement activist Shabtay Bendet of Peace Now surveys the highway critics have dubbed "apartheid road."Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.JERUSALEM — The highway that critics dub"apartheid road" carves a path from the outskirts of Jerusalem north into the occupied West Bank.
It wasn’t so long ago that he wore a bushy beard and the black garb favored by hardline ultra-Orthodox settlers. And in those days, he would most certainly have supported the highway. Now he plays cat-and-mouse with aspiring and established settlers for Peace Now, a decades-old group that advocates for a two-state solution.
He moved a growing family there — he eventually had six children with his then-wife — and helped sneak covert trailers into the settlement to lay claim to the hilltop near the Palestinian city of Nablus.“My belief and ideology were together; when I stopped believing, I started researching my ideology,” Bendet says as he drives his car on a tour of West Bank settlements — communities most governments deem illegal because they are built on occupied land.
Bendet believes that not only do settlements pose a threat to the existence of the state of Israel, they also help hold millions of Palestinians under occupation and without rights.
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