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Factsheets
“[W]e have chosen democracy as a way of life […] But democracy is like a coin; it has two sides. On one side [of the coin] is democracy; on the
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"It is unconscionable that Bethlehem should be allowed to die slowly from strangulation.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 2005...
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The Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, cannot individually form independent economic and political units. Together,...
"Part of our definition of success is that Gaza function as an economic entity. And that means that there has to be access in and out, in a way
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Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has negatively impacted the environment. Israel’s...
“The property of these people was always considered absentee property, but as long as there was no fence these people could access their
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“Ariel Sharon keeps goats and sheep. He puts a fence around them and closes them in with a gate. He decides if they come in or go out. This is now
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“You don’t simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away…I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that
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When Ariel Sharon was asked by Winston S. Churchill III, grandson of the former
British prime minister, in 1973 how Israel will deal with the...
“The Israelis made a fence around the settlement, then they put in a small gate so we could get to our olive trees. They gave us the key and let
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