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Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Qalqily 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 Palestinians, he responded: “We’ll make a pastrami sandwich of t ...

Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors – Focus on Zayta “I never imagined the day would come that I would be witness to a wall passing through the depths of my land. In all of the occupation’s forms, I never imagined I would helplessly watch as my land was destroy ...

Home Demolitions in the name of “Security”: Focus on Hebron Following the ambush of 9 Israeli soldiers and 3 settler security guards, Sharon has called for "territorial contiguity" between Kiryat Arba, an illegal colony overlooking Hebron, and d ...

Expulsion of Palestinians: Banished From the Promised Land The Israeli government has announced that it may forcibly expel the families of suicide bombers, or alternatively, forcibly transfer these families to the Occupied Gaza Strip. Both actions are ill ...

Palestinian Movement Restrictions Highlight Israeli Apartheid On May 14, 2002, the Israeli Army announced that Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation for the last 35 years now require written Israeli permission to move within the Occupied P ...

Destruction of Palestinian Cultural Heritage: The Old City of Nablus “We know that we share with those affected the knowledge that this aggression against people and its heritage are equal parts of the same strategy: to eliminate a race or group of people ...

Return and Compensation This paper aims to highlight rules and principles of international law relevant to two, necessarily inter-linked questions arising in Palestinian–Israeli relations: the right of return of those Palestinians displaced and dispossess ...

Nur Masalha: Israel's Moral Responsibility Towards the Palestinian Refugees I. The Concept of "Transfer"/Expulsion in Mainstream Zionism, 1882-1948 Zionist historiography provides ample evidence suggesting that from the very beginning of th ...

The Status of Jerusalem in International Law Executive Summary The UN Partition Resolution (General Assembly Resolution 181) proposed that Jerusalem be established as a corpus separatum under an international regime to be administered by the United Nation ...

Occupied East Jerusalem – Legal Status JERUSALEM is divided into Occupied East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem. Referring to the two sectors as simply “Jerusalem” is inaccurate and conflicts with international law and the policies of the United Nations, the ...