craig hancock's List: Isreal/Palestine

• The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transfering citizens from its own territory to the occupied territory

  • The actual legal framework that explains why the expansion into the West Bank is wrong and violates human rights.
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• The Hague Regulations prohibit an occupying power from undertaking permanent changes in the occupied area unless these are due to military needs in the narrow sense of the term, or unless they are undertaken for the benefit of the local population.

  • Legal explanation of West Bank expansion.
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• Israel's senseless war in Gaza
• What I utterly reject is the Zionist colonial project beyond the "green line"
• The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza strip in the aftermath of the war of June 1967 had very little to do with security and everything to do with territorial expansionism
• • Need to find the statistics. TO compare gaza economic decline through the decades. Understand foriegn investment, job growth etc.
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• The aim was to establish "greater Israel"
• military control
• political
• over the Palestinian territories
• economic
• Almost four decades of Israeli control did enormous damage to the economy of the Gaza strip

  • Need to look at the stats of the econmic decline through the years. Understanding epmployment rate, foriegn investment, GDP numbers etc.
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• Gaza's prospects were
• Israel turned the people of Gaza into a source of cheap labour and a captive market for Israeli goods.
• cruel case of deliberate de-development
• • How did they do this exactly?
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• To the world, Sharon presented the withdrawal from Gaza as a contribution to peace based on a two-state solution. But in the following year, another 12,000 Israelis settled on the West Bank, further reducing the scope for an independent Palestinian state. Land-grabbing and peacemaking are simply incompatible. Israel had a choice and it chose land over peace.

  • Isreal attempt to peace.
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• Israel has never in its entire history done anything to promote democracy on the Arab side and a great deal to undermine it.
• nstead, it continued to play the old game of divide-and-rule between rival Palestinian factions. In the late 1980s, Israel had supported the nascent Hamas in order to weaken Fatah.

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