Part One: Orders and Proclamations ... Subject to the new legal system ... Part Two: Terrorists and Criminals: Moshe Dayan visited the beach ... Many defendants were tried. ibid.
It’s about the people charged with upholding it [the law]. ibid.
Part Three: Dead Land: The Hebron Settlers Renewing Jewish settlement in City of Patriarchs. ibid.
Israelis settling the occupied territories: in the late 1960s Israel citizens began moving to the territories, claiming that settling these areas is a Biblical right. ibid.
The Supreme Court Ruling came months after the land was seized. ibid.
When will ‘history look back’? ibid.
Part Four: Appropriate Solutions: In December 1987 a widespread popular uprising breaks out in the occupied territories. ibid.
Over the four-year uprising more than 50,000 people were arrested: some of them were arrested a number of times. ibid.
Part Five: Judge and Enemy: the Supreme Court discussed the punitive demolition of family homes. ibid.
Since the early years of the occupation the service had been using various forms of torture during its interrogations ... standard procedure. ibid.
‘But I saw what state they were in, in the interrogation rooms.’ ibid. Oded Pensensson, retired colonel and military judge 1988-2008
Interrogated for thirty days. And released without charge. ibid.
One day Israeli surveyors come to take measurements to put a separation barrier in the middle of the land. The first days the bulldozers come are very hard. Storyville: The Village that Fought Back – Five Broken Cameras, BBC 2014
Israel uses lots of techniques for occupying lands. Some are illegal, even according to their own laws. One way is allowing settlers to place trailers on Palestinian land. ibid.
‘Then the soldiers came and started shooting. They were everywhere. They were in front of Daddy's car.’ ibid. son to mother
The military has declared this area a Closed Military Zone ... must evacuate the area at once.’ ibid. soldier to resident
The third camera sustained from winter 2007 to winter 2008. During this time, it was shot and repaired twice. ibid.
Time passes. People keep demonstrating on Fridays. But the barrier wends its way to other villages. People feel that nothing will stop the occupation from its course. ibid.
The soldiers use lots of gas and live ammunition. ibid.
Since 1967, an estimated 800,000 Palestinians have been arrested, tried and imprisoned with and without due process in civil and military courts for resisting Israeli occupation. Lea Tsemel has defended tens of thousands of them. Storyville: Advocate: A Lawyer Without Borders, caption, BBC 2020
A rebel with a lost cause. ibid. Lea
I always see the person behind the case. ibid.
You defend terrorists and their families. I imagined you differently, taller and tougher. ibid. Israeli TV presenter 1999
I’ve been called every name in the book. ibid. Lea
In June 1967 I was a law student. Suddenly, one morning, shells started exploding. ibid.
A direct result of the Second World War was the creation of a new state – Israel ... Palestinian Arabs refused to become any part of a Jewish state. World War II: The Complete History: The Presence of History, Discovery 2000
I was deep inside the West Bank, the largely Arab area that Israel has occupied since 1967. Louis Theroux: Ultra Zionists, 2011
Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem is considered illegal under International Law. ibid.
The West Bank is home to about two and a half million Palestinians, and about three hundred thousand Jewish settlers. ibid.
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or delegitimising it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to delegitimise the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. Mahmoud Abbas
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behaviour that has characterized Israel’s attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. Alice Walker
I don’t want to govern the Palestinians. I don’t want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state. Benjamin Netanyahu
We will turn Gaza into a deserted island. To the citizens of Gaza I say, You must leave now. We will target each and every corner of the Strip. Benjamin Netanyahu, 7th October 2023
The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. Barack Obama
Since about 1970 the United States has stood virtually alone in the international arena in blocking diplomatic efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict through peaceful means. (US Empire & US Foreign Relations & Israel & Palestine & Middle East) Noam Chomsky, lecture July 1995, ‘Protecting Corporate Power Against Democracy’, Youtube
Kissinger won out: we followed the policy of stalemate. Since that time the United States has been alone in the world outside of Israel in blocking every move towards a political settlement. It’s vetoed UN security council resolutions … year after year. Noam Chomsky, lecture BMFA 18th February 1993
The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united. Noam Chomsky
It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full US support and illegally using US weapons. Noam Chomsky
Israel’s demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a ‘strategic asset’ as did its moves to prevent Syrian intervention in Jordan in 1970 in support of the PLO. Under the Nixon doctrine Israel and Iran were to be ‘the guardians of the Gulf’, and after the fall of the Shah, Israel’s perceived role was enhanced. Meanwhile, Israel has provided subsidiary services elsewhere, including Latin America, where direct US support for the most murderous regimes has been impeded by Congress. While there has been internal debate and some fluctuation in US policy, much exaggerated in discussion here, it has been generally true that US support for Israel’s militarization and expansion reflected the estimate of its power in the region.
The effect has been to turn Israel into a militarized state completely dependent on US aid, willing to undertake tasks that few can endure, such as participation in Guatemalan genocide. For Israel, this is a moral disaster and will eventually become a physical disaster as well. For the Palestinians and many others, it has been a catastrophe, as it may sooner or later be for the entire world, with the growing danger of superpower confrontation. Noam Chomsky
The West Bank and the Gaza Strip are under a military occupation. It’s the longest military occupation in modern history. Noam Chomsky, interview ‘Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land’, 2004
The US blocked diplomatic moves from the Arab states, from Europe, from the PLO, anything, because it just refused to accept this kind of diplomatic settlement. Well there’s a name for that in the United States – it’s called the Peace Process. What it actually is is the process by which the United States prevented peace. ibid.
The two major Israeli political groupings (Labor and Likud), with unfailing US support, agree that Palestinians cannot be permitted to control their own land and resources, as they would under meaningful autonomy. Israel relies heavily on West Bank water; control over water has also been a major factor in conflict over the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
Lying behind these gambits is the belief that US-backed Israeli violence has finally brought the Palestinians to heel. ibid.
The PLO can be justly condemned for many crimes and stupidities. But it is beyond question that in the real real world, it has for years been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus, and for negotiations with Israel leading to mutual recognition. But reality has been effectively purged from the doctrinal system. ibid.