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Israel wastes 250 million shekels on settlement roads to nowhere
Amos Harel, Haaretz, Nov 21, 2008

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Just a few minutes drive from the West Bank settlements of Ofarim and Beit Aryeh lies a unique Israeli invention. A complex network of roads, kilometer after kilometer of pavement, leading to - well, that's sort of the thing: it doesn't lead anywhere. The casual visitor must use his imagination. What ancient civilization operated here, paving such long roads, only to leave them entirely abandoned, completely unused? Was there some higher force involved that stopped the paving work of each road just a few dozen meters from where it should have met another road? [Read the full article]

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