FIVE YEARS TOO LATE by Uri Avnery

This week, the Israeli police showed that it is able to clear blocked roads without opening fire, without killing or even wounding one single person.

Even when all the main roads throughout the country were blocked simultaneously by thousands of settlers in an organized and well-planned operation.

Even then, the Israeli police was capable of opening all the blocked roads within one hour, without opening fire even once.

All due respect !

Unfortunately, this discovery came five years too late for the 13 Arab citizens of Israel who were shot to death by Israeli policemen who argued that « there was no other way to open the blocked roads ».