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 israelinsider: Views: The Disputed Territories are not Occupied
The disputed territories are not "occupied territories", as claimed by the Arab, Islamist perpetual political propaganda.
Arguing that these disputed territories are "occupied", or that the so-called "settlements" are illegal, is largely part of a perpetual political propaganda campaign launched by the Arab League, a la the Nazi technique that if you repeat a lie often enough, eventually people will believe it.
Given the historical and legal record, the Jewish claims to the disputed areas are at least as strong as the Arab "Palestinian" claims, if not much stronger.
http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/6437.htm   (1728 words)

  
 Israel/Occupied Territories: The fence/wall violates international law - news.amnesty - Amnesty International
The construction of the fence/wall inside the Occupied Territories is such a measure and in its present configuration it violates Israel's obligations under international humanitarian law," said Amnesty International.
The route of the fence/wall has been designed to encompass more than 50 Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, in which the majority of Israeli settlers live and which are illegal under international law.
The Israeli authorities claim that the fence/wall is "a defensive measure, designed to block the passage of terrorists, weapons and explosives into the State of Israel".
http://news.amnesty.org/mav/index/ENGMDE150182004   (678 words)

  
 ZNet Mideast Israel And The Occupied Territories
In a house occupied by Israeli soldiers in Balata camp between 28 February and 4 March, the IDF confined about 40 of the residents to one room and then allegedly told some of the men to stand at windows in the top floor flat, which was frequently being shot at by armed Palestinians.
The arrests of Palestinians from the Occupied Territories carried out by Israel since 27 February were almost invariably accompanied by cruel and degrading treatment; a number of allegations of torture have been received.
No crime, however appalling, can excuse the wanton disregard of international human rights and humanitarian law carried out daily in the Occupied Territories during the post-27 February incursions by the IDF under the orders of the Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
http://www.zmag.org/content/Mideast/amnesty_israel.cfm   (8940 words)

  
 About_B'Tselem
It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
B'Tselem is aware of human rights violations within Israel - discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel, discrimination against women, problems relating to church and state, and the like - but the population in the Occupied Territories live under military rule and Israel systematically and extensively violates their fundamental human rights.
Over the years of the occupation, the Israeli authorities have been guilty of widespread and severe violation of human rights of Palestinians, while at the same time have given preferential treatment to Israeli settlers, whose settlement in occupied territory is itself a breach of international law.
http://www.btselem.org/English/About_BTselem/index.asp   (765 words)

  
 ISRAELI SETTLEMENTSIN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
The Israeli policy of settlement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is claimed on the basis of historical and religious rights and ownership of the Jewish people vis a vis the land of “Eretz Israel”.
Among these issues were the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which were built and expanded by successive Israeli governments throughout the over thirty years of the Israeli Occupation.
According to figures released on 20 February 2000 by the Council for Jewish Settlements, the population of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories grew by 12.5 percent in 1999, the highest growth rate recorded in recent years.
http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/Reports/English/israelisettlement.htm   (3969 words)

  
 Israel and the occupied territories
The report on the occupied territories is appended at the end of this Report.
Conditions varied in incarceration facilities in the country and the occupied territories, which were administered by the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), the IDF, or the national police.
The approximately 208,000 Israeli settlers (an increase of 33,000 since 2001) living in Area C of the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip were subject to Israeli law and, as citizens, received preferential treatment from Israeli authorities compared to Palestinians in the protection of their personal and property rights.
http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/israel/israel-ot-hr-02.htm   (20017 words)

  
 The "Occupied Territories": A Primer
Third, the use of "occupied Palestinian territories" denies any Israeli claim to the land: had the more neutral language of "disputed territories" been used, then the Palestinians and Israel would be on an even playing field with equal rights.
In fact, prior to 1967, Jordan had occupied the West Bank and Egypt had occupied the Gaza Strip; their presence in those territories was the result of their illegal invasion in 1948, in defiance of the UN Security Council.
The use of "occupied Palestinian territories" denies any Israeli claim to the land.
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/The_-Occupied_Territories-_A_Primer.asp   (3134 words)

  
 Occupied Territories
But, in a way, the Israeli territories of Judea and Samaria are "Occupied Territories"; yes, illegally occupied by Arabs (so-called "Palestinians"), who have obtained the right to rule on cities like Hevron, Bet-Lechem, Nablus (Samaria) and other cities that historically belong to Canaan and Israel.
The Shoah became a reason by which the nations were no longer able to deny Jews' right to their own homeland, and the British Mandate had to hand over the remainder of that country to the people of Israel.
If there had never been any archaeological evidence to support the rights of the Israelis to the territory, it is also important to recognize that other nations in the area have no longstanding claim to the country either.
http://www.geocities.com/tzurmanoti   (4768 words)

  
 The Myth of "Occupied" Territories
With the disbanding of the League of Nations, the rights of the Jews to settle the territories of Palestine, including Yesha, were not hurt.
The truth of the matter is that, according to international law, the Jews have the complete and unquestionable right to settle the territories of Judea, Samaria and Gaza (collectively known as Yesha).
That means that the right of the Jews to settle the land spreads to the whole of Palestine.
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2001/may/b1.htm   (1270 words)

  
 UNHCR - The Occupied Territories: Exit and Return
Residents of the Occupied Territories have been further impoverished by the cut in transfer payments from the Gulf, fewer job opportunities in Israel, a deep drop in exports...
The Israeli occupation in 1967 resulted in the exodus of half a million people from the Occupied Territories (United Nations 1990, 146).
Israel argues against this by claiming that the laws of occupation do not require Israel to permit the return of former Palestinian residents who were abroad in 1967 or who have lost their residency status by protracted absence and relocation of domicile, even if they were born in the territories (Country Reports 1990 1991, 1491).
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=RSDCOI&page=research&id=3ae6a8100   (4430 words)

  
 Readings: Occupied Territories
Certainly Baldwin could be wrong about the extent to which people in Harlem felt they lived in occupied territory, but his thesis has implications for how we explain law's authority.
This community is not, as most political theory and public policy in America would have it, merely filled with unfortunates in an otherwise blessed land.
This analysis was first presented to an international gathering of political scientists in Santa Fe, New Mexico little more than two weeks after hundreds of local residents stormed into a city council meeting in Santa Fe to protest the shooting death of Francisco "Pancho" Ortega by the police.
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~polsc363/page04d.html   (6990 words)

  
 Center for Economic and Social Rights Occupied Palestinian Territories
Based on the presentations of CESR and others, the Committee on Economic and Social Rights noted in their Concluding Observations [pdf 24 kb] that Israel was responsible for rights violations of Palestinians through expropriation of land, closure policy and discrimination against Palestinians.
In the spring of 2003, CESR partnered with Palestinian environmental NGOs to document violations of the human right to water in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza and presented a report to the U.N. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
In November 1998, CESR and its partner Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations submitted two reports, Israeli Jurisdiction in Palestinian territories and Israeli Violations of Palestinian Human Rights to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
http://cesr.org/palestine   (1122 words)

  
 Occupied territories
John Dugard, has stated that the wall is being used "as a way of expanding Israel's territory" and as such, it represents a 'de-facto annexation' of Palestinian lands in violation of international law.
Since that time these same human rights violations, and others, have repeatedly been committed, due in no small part to the fact that the Israeli authorities have been allowed to act in disregard of their duties under international law and with near total impunity for the past 35 years.
THIRTY years ago this month, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights expressed its great alarm at "the continuation of the violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by Israel in the occupied Arab territories".
http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/hrfchr59/Issue3/occupied_territories.htm   (1221 words)

  
 Israeli-occupied territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From their capture in 1967 until 1993, the majority of people living in these territories —those who are not Israeli citizens — were subject to Israeli military administration without the benefits of Israeli citizenship: in particular the right to vote in Israeli elections.
Unlike Israeli Arabs, the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are not citizens of Israel, and are not afforded the same political rights and freedoms or protections under Israeli law as Israeli citizens who live in the same areas.
The executive branch of the Government of Israel and many of Israel's citizens and supporters dispute the view that the territories are occupied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Palestinian_territories   (1486 words)

  
 Israel and the Occupied Territories - Amnesty International
In April a UN delegation headed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was unable to travel to the Occupied Territories because of lack of cooperation by the Israeli government.
On 4 September Intisar and Kifah ‘Ajuri were forcibly transferred from their home town of Nablus to the Gaza Strip on the grounds that they had allegedly assisted their brother, who was assassinated by the IDF on 6 August, to commit attacks against Israelis.
Several Israeli soldiers and settlers were arrested on charges of selling weapons and munitions to armed Palestinian groups, and four Israeli settlers were arrested and charged with attempting to bomb a Palestinian school.
http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Isr-summary-eng   (2673 words)

  
 Land and Settlement Issues- Israel and Palestine - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council
The collision of Jewish nationalist colonisation and Palestian nationalism, both laying claim to the same territory, forms the basis of this long conflict, deepened by the tragedies of the Holocaust and of the dispossession and occupation of Palestine.
The groups denounced any construction on occupied land as unlawful and urged the Israeli government to re-route the barrier so as not to disrupt the lives of thousands of Palestinians.
The Oslo Accords (1993) and the Road Map (2003) have failed to reach a land agreement between the parties or to bring Israeli withdrawal.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/israel-palestine/occupindex.htm   (3286 words)

  
 Israel and the Occupied Territories: Evictions and demolitions must stop - news.amnesty - Amnesty International
Amnesty International is also pressing for other States, particularly the US, to stop the sale or transfer of weaponry and equipment that are used to commit unlawful destruction of homes and other human rights violations..
For a copy of the executive summary of the report, Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Over the last three and a half years, Israeli armed forces have demolished more than 3,000 homes, leaving tens of thousands of men, women and children homeless or without a livelihood.
http://news.amnesty.org/mav/index/ENGMDE150502004   (591 words)

  
 Forums - How Israel promotes terror in the occupied territories
Palestinian farmers whose land is being robbed sit on the ground in front of the bulldozers, accompanied by the Israeli opponents of the wall - the veterans of the Mas'ha camp.
In 1993, Hamas agreed to the principles of the Oslo accords, but did not believe that Rabin would translate these principles into action, and urged the Palestinian people to remember that the occupation was not yet over.
Ahmad Yassin viewed himself as struggling against the occupation.
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=69312   (1515 words)

  
 Press Release ILO/05/23: Situation of workers in occupied Arab territories continues to deteriorate
GENEVA (ILO News) - Despite a new climate of dialogue among Israelis and Palestinians, conditions of life for workers and their families in the occupied Arab territories continue to be extremely hard, according to a report issued by the International Labour Office (ILO) (Note 1).
The findings of the report are based on missions sent to Israel and the occupied Arab territories and to the Syrian Arab Republic in order to assess the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories, including the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan.
The ILO mission witnessed a strong will for dialogue among both Palestinian and Israeli trade unions.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2005/23.htm   (772 words)

  
 Israeli Settlements on Occupied Palestinian Territories
The confiscation of land by the Israeli government for settlement construction is in violation of this article.
The by-pass network allows the Israeli military to occupy Palestinian land with roads.
The by-pass roads link Israeli settlements to each other and to Israel.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/factsheet/settlement.html   (1123 words)

  
 Israel 2000: Country Report
Israeli abuses of press freedom were not confined to Israel and the occupied territories.
Even with the proper permissions, Palestinian journalists were denied entry into Israel at times when Israeli authorities had sealed off the Occupied Territories, as happened several times during the recent unrest.
Israeli officials apparently told these journalists that the renewals had been denied because of the Palestinian media's alleged incitement to violence against Israel.
http://www.cpj.org/attacks00/mideast00/Israel.html   (5085 words)

  
 The Occupied Territories (June 18, 2003)
With Baghdad occupied, the White House claimed, America would turn its full attention to the Palestinian "problem." Both Washington and the Israelis wanted Arafat out for his alleged continuing support of terrorism.
Key to their plan was to try to first find a Palestinian--any Palestinian--who could plausibly be presented to the world and to at least some Palestinians as a replacement for legendary leader Yassar Arafat.
Actually, it was dead before arrival, because Bush held up the proposal for over a year so that he could launch his Iraq invasion first.
http://eatthestate.org/07-21/OccupiedTerritories.htm   (1005 words)

  
 FAIR ACTION ALERT: Missing from Mideast Coverage: Occupied territories no longer "occupied" on TV news
Virtually the entire world, including the United States and the UN Security Council, regards Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian land seized in the 1967 war as a violation of international law.
The turmoil in the Middle East has been a top international story on television news since fighting broke out between Palestinians and Israeli troops and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza in late September.
Some outlets have even taken the step of referring to occupied Palestinian land as part of Israel.
http://www.fair.org/activism/occupied-territories.html   (656 words)

  
 Israel/Occupied Terr.: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
The Israeli government continues to use Caterpillar bulldozers, often illegally, to destroy hundreds of family's homes and possessions, in support of Israel's overall policy of forced eviction and demolition of homes of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and Israeli Arabs in Israel.
Israel/Occupied Territories: Amnesty International condemns killing of Palestinians by Israeli settler, calls for urgent measures to end settlers' impunity
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http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/israel_and_occupied_territories/index.do   (391 words)

  
 Occupied Territories: Iraq, America
I wake up in the morning, read the newspaper, and feel that we are an occupied country, that some alien group has taken over.
More Americans are beginning to feel, like the soldiers in Iraq, that something is terribly wrong.
Published on Friday, August 12, 2005 by the Guardian / UK Occupied Territories: Iraq, America
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0812-27.htm   (1064 words)

  
 America's Occupied Territories (Michael Freund) September, 2001
For if one were to take the American government's stance vis-a-vis Israel's territories and retroactively apply it to America's own acquisition of land throughout history, there would be plenty to keep the United Nations Security Council busy for quite some time.
Unlike Israel, however, America had no historic or biblical ties to the land that might have justified its policy.
Once America decides to return Florida to Spain or California to Mexico, it can then feel free to offer advice to Israel.
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/sep01/freund.htm   (790 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Party Politics in Israel and the Occupied Territories (Contributions in Political Science): Books: Gershon ...
“Israel's policy in the Occupied Territories, intimately connected with the questions of security and ideology so important to Israelis of all parties, has been strongly influenced by the factionalism characteristic of Israeli politics within the major parties and within the coalition governments.
Amazon.com: Party Politics in Israel and the Occupied Territories (Contributions in Political Science): Books: Gershon R. Kieval
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031323325X?v=glance   (512 words)

  
 Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories
Urges the Government of Israel to abstain from installing settlers, including immigrants, in the occupied territories.
Recalling its resolutions 1990/1 of 16 February 1990, 1991/3 of 15 February 1991 and 1992/3 of 14 February 1992, which, inter alia, reaffirmed the illegality of the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories,
Regrets that the Government of Israel has not fully complied with the provisions of Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1990/1, 1991/3 and 1992/3;
http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.RES.1993.3.En?Opendocument   (272 words)

  
 Derechos: Human Rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories
Arab Association for Human Rights The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine
US State Department Reports on Religious Freedom in the Occupied Territories
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/mena/iot.html   (831 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Special reports Britain clamps down on imports
Mr Healey said that Israel had failed to prove the legitimacy of goods suspected of coming from the occupied territories.
"Customs and excise have now begun issuing duty demands to UK importers where there is reason to suspect that goods may have originated in Israeli settlements in the occupied territories," he said.
John Healey, the economic secretary in Gordon Brown's team, said that the latest agreement between Israel and the EU to provide zero-rates of duty on Israeli products does not extend to goods originating in territories occupied during the 1967 war, including Gaza and the West Bank.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,929478,00.html   (454 words)

  
 OCCUPIED TERRITORIES? - By Dr. Asher Eder
But both these terms--West Bank and occupied territories--were invented for purposes of Arab propaganda.
We should not senselessly repeat Arab propaganda slogans.
In the War of 1948, the Emirate of Trans-Jordan conquered the greater portion of the area that the UNO's Partition Plan of 1947 had designated to become an Arab Palestinian state.
http://www.vibrani.com/occupiedterritories.htm   (677 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Middle East and Northern Africa : Israel, Occupied Territory, West Bank and Gaza Strip