Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped in to quash a law only hours after it went into effect on Wednesday as it threatened to blow up into a public relations disaster.<br /><br /> New Minister of Defence Moshe Yaalon accepted a longstanding Jewish settler’s demand and banned West Bank Palestinians who work in Israel from using the same buses as Israelis. <br /><br /> “I’ve heard about it, but I haven’t experienced it yet., although it will affect us significantly. My father said it will create long traffic jams on the way home from work,” said one West Bank man.<br /><br /> The attempt to enforce the measure is a clear sign of the growing militant settler influence over the government, which has gone further to the right following the latest election.<br /><br /> “There is absolutely no security justification for the bus segregation policy, it is merely the result of the military establishment caving in to pressure by settlers. We are talking about a population of Palestinians who have work permits, who have prov
