Study: Palestinian High Road Lower Than Most Others’ Low Roads

June 27 – Topographers at the Palestine Institute of Geography (PIG) have published a study indicating that the altitude of Palestinian societal thoroughfares locally considered morally elevated are nevertheless less elevated than the lower routes of other societies.

A PIG survey looked at Palestinian behaviors regarding high and low roads since 1950, and compared the data with other countries’ usages of their own roads. They concluded that decisions in Palestinian society, principally those at a policy level, do not rise to the same altitude as even the baser policies of, for example, Western European countries. The average difference in height between other societies’ low roads and the Palestinian high road has been two levels of moral turpitude in the other countries’ favor on the Ethical Value Indicated Level (EVIL) scale.

EVIL is inverse, meaning that a higher EVIL value denotes a lower ethical level. The Palestinian high road has fluctuated in its EVIL data, but has never dipped below 7. Western European societies, by contrast, have seldom reached even as high as 6, with the last time any Western European country registering above that level occurring under Nazi domination, when it reached 10. Bosnia, Albania, and the Soviet gulag have also come close, but at those times the Palestinian high road was still comfortably distant at an 8 EVIL score.  The only areas with a high road consistently the same altitude or lower than that of the Palestinians are Sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, where the researchers were unable to detect any remnants of a high road.

The PIG researchers are divided over whether Palestinian society is structurally capable of lowering its EVIL score to European levels, or even East Asian levels, which rose under 1950’s and 60’s Communism but have since decreased to an average of 5. Large-scale Palestinian societal efforts seem to be directed at constructing multiple low roads, whereas high road construction, not to mention use, all but does not occur. Indeed, preparing young Palestinians with knowledge that a high road even exists is not part of the standard Palestinian curriculum; neither is it featured in the education materials used in United Nations schools.