While tens of thousands of work-bound Jerusalem area residents moan the inconvenience caused by the vast road-closings in Jerusalem for the Pope's week-long visit, the residents of Western Binyamin plan to take advantage of the road-opening created to ease Arab inconvenience for the duration of the visit.
Indeed even as all Israeli newspapers printed the absurdly all-encompassing closure of virtually all Jerusalem streets for most of the week, unbeknownst to most of the country, roads long closed in response to Arab terror are being quietly opened for Arab travel so that Arabs won't be troubled by the Pope's visit.
Over a decade ago, a main artery of travel for Western Binyamin residents to their places of employment and education in Jerusalem and Eastern Binyamin, the road going through Ein Arik, was closed due to Arab madness. It led to the doubling of travel time for Jewish residents. Instead of controlling Arab terror, Israel preferred the option of punishing the victims of that terror with this infringement on their daily movement which caused damage to their income and their children's access to quality education.
Western Binyamin residents plan to take advantage of the temporary relief caused inadvertently by the government's show of good will to Arab resdents by travelling the open road through Ein Arik starting Monday morning in groups of dozens of vehicles at a time.
The hope is that the road will remain open - and protected by IDF - once the Pope has flown back to Rome.
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