difficult, if not impossible, to identify and articulate. In this paper, BADIL utilizes the transportation system – meaning the public transportation systems, roads, and the associated planning regimes – as the tool for demonstrating the way in which these three policies are enforced against the Palestinian people. It should be noted from the outset that transportation infrastructure and access is used directly and indirectly to implement these three policies. Moreover, transportation is by no means the only way in which these policies are imposed on the Palestinian people. There is a myriad of ways in which Israel seeks to achieve the segregation, fragmentation and isolation of the Palestinian people, and transportation decisions are often inextricably linked to other decisions as they relate to education, economic domination and colony construction. In order to understand the extent to which the Palestinian people have been impacted by these three policies, an examination of the historical context of the development of Palestinian cities and the transportation network in Palestine provides significant insights. 23