User:Sanguinalis/Notes

Deleted material
Some material that was recently deleted from the House demolition in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict article:


 * "The declared objective of house demolitions was deterrence, achieved by harming the relatives of Palestinians who carried out, or were suspected of involvement in carrying out, attacks against Israeli citizens and soldiers. Indeed, the main victims of the demolitions were family members, among them women, the elderly, and children, who bore no responsibility for the acts of their relative and were not suspected of involvement in any offense. ... Furthermore, unlike house demolition in the past, in which the IDF was careful to damage only the house of the nuclear family of the person because of whom the house was being demolished, in many cases during the al-Aqsa intifada, the IDF has also damaged nearby homes. ... B’Tselem’s research clearly shows that in some cases, soldiers intentionally damaged adjacent homes."


 * According to Amnesty International, "the demolition of Palestinian houses is inextricably linked with Israeli policy to control and colonize areas of the West Bank". In Oct 1999, during the "Peace Process" and before the start of the Al Aqsa Intefada, Amnesty International wrote that: "well over one third of the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem live under threat of having their house demolished. ... Threatened houses exist in almost every street and it is probable that the great majority of Palestinians live in or next to a house due for demolition."


 * During the period 2006-2007, Israel has demolished 165 homes in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) claiming that they lacked building permits, leaving 724 people homeless. In addition, Israel destroyed 1,049 houses and other structures claiming permit violations in the West Bank in the period 1999-2003, and demolished 2,276 houses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem combined in the period 1987-1998.


 * "House demolitions ostensibly occur because the homes are built 'illegally' - i.e. without a permit. Officials and spokespersons of the Israeli government have consistently maintained that the demolition of Palestinian houses is based on planning considerations and is carried out according to the law. ... But the Israeli policy has been based on discrimination. Palestinians are targeted for no other reasons than that they are Palestinians. ... [Israel has] discriminated in the application of the law, strictly enforcing planning prohibitions where Palestinian houses are built and freely allowing amendments to the plans to promote development where Israelis are setting up settlements."

Starting points for new articles
Here are some notes for some new articles. If you come across these notes and the articles have not been created yet, feel free to start.

Palestine Basic Law

External links:


 * Mideast Web


 * pdf

News articles:


 * People's Daily Online, 15 August 2005

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody

Article Palestinian prisoners in Israel was created by User:Pedrito in June 2008.''

News articles:


 * BBC, 8 August 2003

Other things
Important changes made by User:Nishidani to Palestinian Territories between 12 August and 17 August 2007, reverted in whole by User:Humus Sapiens on 20 August 2007. The stable 23 August 2007 version of Jaakobou is identical to the Ian Pitchford version of 12 August 2007

The usage of the terms "Judea" and "Samaria" in the UN Partition Resolution were not intended by the authors of that resolution to imply any sort of Jewish sovereignty of those areas, which were entirely included in the area designated for the Arab state. If they did intend to support a Jewish claim to those areas, then clearly the Palestinian Arabs were right to reject the resolution!


 * Thanks for clarifying the point in 'Palestinian Territories'. I personally find it one of the most confusing articles I've read in Wikipedia. It should be half as long, as it is full of needless repetitions of material on other sites, as if the intent were to muddle the issues and cause confusion in the reader's mind. One needs clear definitions, not endless adjustments of various POVs that obscure what appear to be a simple matter of International legal perspectives and Israel's (up to now) non-acceptance of those principles. Regards Nishidani 16:00, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Palestinian Territories

 * Netherlands Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah
 * BBC Country Profile
 * France Ministry of Foreign Affairs

HIGHLIGHT

Visit to the Mideast of Mr. Bernard Kouchner (September 10-13, 2007)

The foreign and European affairs minister visited Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon on September 10-13. This was his first trip to Israel and the Territories since he assumed his duties.


 * Lonely Planet travel guide

Occupied Palestinian Territories

 * UNICEF at a glance
 * UNDP Country Fact Sheet

al-Dura sources
San Francisco Chronicle:

UN Human Rights Council statements relevant to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Their website is hard to navigate.


 * 2008-01-24, Urgent International Action
 * 2008-01-24, Sixth Special Session Concludes
 * 2008-01-23, Human Rights Council opens special session on violations
 * 2008-01-17, Freedom of Religion
 * 2008-11-10, Special Committee

Criticisms of of the Oslo Accords
"Oslo's fatal flaw—as consistently argued from the outset by Said and others—is that it is neither an instrument of decolonization nor a mechanism to apply international legitimacy to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but rather a framework that changes the basis of Israeli control over the occupied territories in order to perpetuate it."

Mouin Rabbani, Isreal's new apartheid, page 75