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Fuelling the Fire: Cutting Off Gaza’s Electricity and Fuel '’I do think there are other measures, beyond "dramatic" military steps that we can take. Gaza is dependent on Israel and on Israel's willingness to continue letting it lead a ...

Democracy under Occupation: Jerusalem and the 2006 PLC Elections “[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 other side of the coin is freedom.”-  PA Presi ...

Road of Peace: Linking the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and the Rest of the West Bank Fact Sheet The Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, cannot individually form independent economic and political units. Together, however, they will for ...

Movement of People and Goods: The Occupied Gaza Strip After "Disengagement" "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 that helps the econo ...

"Disengagement" v. the Environment: Stripping the Gaza Strip Fact Sheet Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has negatively impacted the environment. Israel’s evacuation of settlements (colonies) and ...

Israel’s Continued Land Confiscation in Jerusalem: The Application of Israel’s Absentee Property Law “The property of these people was always considered absentee property, but as long as there was no fence these people could access their property and from ...

Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Azzun Atma “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 in a positive way will induce people to leave.” – Ariel Shar ...

Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Daba “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 us come and go for the first year. Then they changed the lock an ...

Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Jayyus “There is only one thing I can do. I will buy a tent and move with my wife to live on the other side of the fence among my trees. I don’t know if the Israelis will let me do it. They certainly won’t let me b ...

Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Occupied Palestinian Jerusalem “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 what he is doing to us.” – Palestini ...