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South Africa?
Do you think of this man?
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize 1984
“If you change the names, the description of
what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank would be a description of what is
happening in South Africa.”
Protesting the
Taking of land
Jimmy Carter, Nobel
Peace Prize 2002
“When Israel does occupy this territory deep
within the West Bank, and connects the 200-or-so
settlements with each other, with a road, and then
prohibits the Palestinians from using that road, or in
many cases even crossing the road, this perpetrates
even worse instances of apartness, or apartheid, than
we witnessed even in South Africa."
In 1973, the UN General Assembly adopted
the International Convention on the
Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of
Apartheid, a crime against humanity.
The word ‘Apartheid’ means separation.,
‘Apartheid’ is defined by the UN as “…a
system of institutionalized racial
segregation and discrimination for the
purpose of establishing and maintaining
domination by one racial group … over
another …
and systematically oppressing them…” by:
creating ghettos; land confiscation; bans on
freedom of movement, speech assemblies and
mixed marriages; illegal arrest and detention.
Nobel Peace Prize 1993
“….injustice and gross
human rights violations
were being perpetrated
in Palestine. In the
same period the UN
took a strong stand
against apartheid;
….which helped to bring
an end to this iniquitous
system. But we know
too well that our
freedom is incomplete
without the freedom of
the Palestinians."
Above: Guard tower Hebron
Two systems: separate and unequal
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Palestinians are ghettoized on 12% of their original
land.
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Apartheid is where citizens are given citizenship in a
small isolated canton so they have no rights in the
country as a whole.
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The West Bank is divided up into 70 isolated cantons
with no physical movement between them without
Israeli permission.
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This disposition is reminiscent of Apartheid in South
Africa, which set aside 13% of the land as
"Bantustan" homelands for black South Africans.
Apartheid means the entire political, legal
and economic system is designed to enforce the
privilege of one group over another.
Economic strangulation and starvation
•Poverty West Bank 57% (79% in Gaza Strip)
•46 % don’t have enough food to meet their needs 1Milllion
live on less than 50 cents per/day
UN-OCAH, 2008
Water resources stolen
•The Israeli military authority controls virtually all the water in the
West Bank. 73% of West Bank water is piped back to Israel.
•Palestinians have access to only 17% of their own water and
must buy it from Israel at 4 times the price Israelis pay.
Brutality of occupation
Between 2000-2008
•Palestinians Killed by Israeli security forces
•Israelis killed by Palestinians
4792
490
•Palestinians killed during the course of a targeted killing 386
•B’Tselem
Just getting to school
can be a hardship
4000 Palestinian children have
been arrested since the year
2000. They can be held 6
month without charge.
Children killed 2000-2008
Israeli
39
Palestinian
1200
Since 2000, 269
schools have
been damaged as
a result of shelling
the Israeli Army
30% of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West bank are malnourished
50% are anemic. (UNICEF and USAID)
. The control matrix of Apartheid :
bans on freedom of movement, so one
population remains isolated with few
rights
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West Bank
(5,600 km2)
(2,160 mi2)
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Palestinian Built-up
areas in the West
Bank
pop. 2,444,500
PCBS 2006
149 Israeli
settlements,
96 outposts
(1,006km2)
(71 mi2)
pop. 450,000
In 2006
(As of March 2007)
Flying
Road
Earthmounds
Checkpoints
Roadblocks
Road
Trenches
checkpoints
barriers
gates
0
5
Miles
10
Bans on freedom of
movement for
Palestinians.
No bans for Israelis.
69
Checkpoints
19
Partial Checkpoints
84
Road Gates
67
Roadblocks
211
Earthmounds
A barrier manned by IDF and/or Border
Police.
An established checkpoint operating
periodically.
A metal gate, often manned by IDF, used
to control movement along roads.
A series of 1 metre high concrete blocks
used to obstruct vehicle access.
A mound of rubble, dirt and/or rocks used
to obstruct vehicle access.
17
33.5
km
Trenches
67
123.3
km
Road barriers
28
14.5
km
Earth Walls
562
From UN OCHAH 2008
A ditch used to prevent vehicle crossing.
Road barriers placed alongside major roads
prevent movement across the roads.
A continuous wall or series
of earth mounds used to restrict access.
TOTAL
(23 October 2007)
“The construction of the wall being built by Israel... in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East
Jerusalem... [is] contrary to international law. Israel is under
obligation... to dismantle forthwith the structure... [and] make
reparation for all damage caused...”
International Court of Justice advisory opinion, July 9, 2004
Objection to the Barrier
based on its route
– not the Barrier itself.
The wall fragments Palestinian communities: it
separates families from their land, their livelihood, health
care and schools. The wall also divides communities and
families from each other. The wall does not fragment
Israeli settlements; it is built in such a way to as to annex
them to Israel proper.
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West Bank Barrier
Constructed
Planned
Palestinian
Built-up
Alfe Menashe Settlement
Israeli
Settlements
55
Settlement expansion
Barrier Gates
IKONOS imagery Jan 2004
No Access
for Palestinians
Habla
Tunnel
Restricted Access
for Palestinians
Seasonal Access
for Palestinians
0
(As of Nov 2006)
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Jayyus’
Land
Road 55
1
Miles
2
Water
wells
Areas A and B
(Oslo Accords)
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149 Israeli
settlements,
96 outpost and
land cultivated by
Israelis
Israeli military
closed areas and
27 military bases
Nature Reserves
West Bank Barrier
and Areas between
the Barrier and the
Green Line
Roads primarily
used by the settlers
Closures
The effect of the
closures
Fragmentation of
the West Bank
Checkpoints
Tunnels
(As of March 2007)
0
5
Miles
10
Even the former Prime Minister of Israel. Ehud Olmert .
said failure of the peace process will sink Israel in a
South Africa apartheid struggle.
"If the day comes when the twostate solution collapses, and we
face a South African-style struggle
for equal voting rights (also for the
Palestinians in the territories), then,
as soon as that happens, the State
of Israel is finished," Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert told Haaretz.
November 29, 2007
Who is this Man?
Two Systems Separate and Unequal
Palestinian villages and towns face collective punishment
in the form of bulldozing family houses, extended 24 hour
curfews, road closures, military raids, violence and harassment.
Israeli settlers face no such collective punishment.
There have been over 18,000 house demolitions in the
Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, since 1967.
There has been no widespread destruction of Jewish Israeli
homes.
Palestinian
child in Raffa
after home
bull dozed in
2002. B” Tselem
2007, East
Jerusalem
Two Systems Separate and Unequal
Item tree’s
In 2001, Israeli Defense Minister
Shaul Mofaz declared, “The D-9
is a strategic weapon ”
Palestinians face widespread
curfews. For example, in
2002 through 2003 there were
more than 500 days of curfew
in Hebron. It would be lifted
every few days for two or three
hours so people could get food.
There was one stretch of over
180 consecutive days. Israeli
setters face no such curfews.
In Hebron separate sidewalks exist for Israelis and
Palestinians.
The permit system for the Closed Zone
is administered in an arbitrary and
humiliating manner…This system,
which subjects Palestinian freedom of
movement to the whim of the Occupying
Power, creates anger, anxiety and
humiliation among the population.“
(UNHCHR)
Palestinians are under Military Law. They face the constant
threat of arrest and detention without charge and can be held
indefinitely. They have no right to representation or trial. Israelis
living in illegal settlements on Palestinian land have all the
privileges of Israeli Civil Law. As citizens of Israel, they can vote,
seek redress in court, and have freedom of speech and assembly.
Settler throwing stones at
Palestinians during olive harvest.
Israeli soldiers are prohibited
from Intervening .
Huwara check point
While Palestinians live under
brutal occupation with water
shortages, Israeli settler live in
luxury right next door.
Settlement of Ariel outside
Jerusalem
Palestinians are prohibited from using the extensive
network of settler only highways that connect the
settlements to Israel.
Map of Israeli only roads
and how they connect the
settlements to Israel proper.
Palestinian cars from the
OPT have green license
plates. Israeli cars have
yellow license plates and
can pass right through
check points.
Palestinian workers employed in settlement industrial
zones receive only the sweatshop-like minimum wage
mandated by Jordanian law in 1967. In the settlements,
Israeli workers receive all the rights and benefits of
Israeli employment law including a much larger
minimum-wage
Areil settlement industrial
zone.
There are currently seven
industrial zones in the west
bank all located on illegally
confiscated land.
Separating
the people
from their
land.
Right: Har Homa
Settlement on
confiscated land in
Bethlehem.
Nearly 500,000 Israeli
Settlers live in the west
Bank
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“Apartheid was all about
land. Apartheid was about
keeping the best parts of
the country for the whites
and sending the blacks to
the least habitable, least
desirable parts of the
country.”
John Dugard, South African
human rights lawyer and
UN Special Rapporteur to
the Occupied Palestinian
Territories
US made tank in
Occupied West Bank
Below; US made white
phosphorus
illegally dropped on UN
School in GAZA, 2009
The United States and Israel signed a Memorandum of
Understanding in August, 2007, committing the U.S. to
give Israel $30 billion in military aid over the next decade.
“There is no Zionism, colonization
or Jewish State without the
eviction of the Arabs and the
expropriation of their lands.”
Ariel Sharon, Nov. 15, 1998
Ethnic cleansing continues inside Israel,
Jerusalem and the West Bank.
For example the West Bank is zoned agricultural
and no building permits are issued except to
settlers.
If land is not Cultivated for 3 years it is
confiscated. Settles throw stones at
Palestinians especially during olive harvest to
keep them off their land
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No protection for minorities in the constitution
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Arab parties have been expelled from the Parliament
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Citizenship rights are unequal: Jews have right of
return . In 2003, the Law of Citizenship states that even if a
Jewish Israeli marries a Palestinian they can not become
an Israeli citizen.
Budgets & Resource Allocation is unequal . Palestinian
Arab areas receive substantially less funding for local
government (usually only half as much), welfare, school
facilities or other education programmers.
Military Service confers wide social and economic
privileges . Jewish Yeshiva students, who don't do
military service, are still given the benefits. Palestinian
Arab citizens aren't.
Unrecognized villages .Over 70,000 Palestinian Arab
citizens live in these villages
Ethnic cleansing and limiting of growth of Arab
communities. There have been no new Arab communities
since the creation of Israel and communities such as Jaffa
are being ethnically cleansed of Palestinians. Arabs own
just two percent of the land, down from 85 percent in 1948.
This loss of land has to do mostly with land confiscation
that continues to this day.
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88 Jerusalemite houses in AlBustan neighborhood near to AlAqsa mosque will be demolished
leaving more than 1500
Jerusalemites homeless without
any shelter; such plans reveals
the extent of the ongoing Israeli
process of shifting Jerusalem to a
pure Jewish city since the year
1967.
Department of Arab & International Relations /PLO
Ramallah- Palestine
Feb. 24th, 2009
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No matter what you call it: the
over 40 years of occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza are
ILLEGAL, IMMORAL and
UNJUST.
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Exports – current number of trucks:
- AMA target – 400 / day
- 2007 average – approx. 55 /day
- Since June 2007 – 0
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Imports – currently only basic items – food,
medicines
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85% industrial / manufacturing sites closed –
75,000 people newly unemployed
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No agricultural planting taking place for
export crops
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80% of Gaza families receive assistance,
others will soon begin receiving
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Link between Gaza and West Bank needed for
economic and social viability – no ‘safe
passage’ – no physical ties between the GS
and the WB
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The Gaza Strip
August 2005
2007
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21 Settlements
~9,000 Israeli settlers
Karni:
monthlycrossing
truckloads
workers
and crossing
traders
Erez / day
People
Rafah / day
Access and
Movement Data
Erez Crossing
Point
Karni Crossing
Point
0
1.
5
Miles
3
Rafah Crossing
Point
Slide 4
As quoted in NY Times December 24, 1989.
Slide 5
Peace Not apartheid. 2007
Slide 6
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/11.htm
Ratifying vote.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/treaty8_asp.htm
Slide 7
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International day of solidarity with the
Palestinian people 1997.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/1997/sp971204b.html
Slide 8
International Development Research Center Canada.
http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/corpdocs/119922/Word/3-119922-Chapter01.doc
14 http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article13
UN OCHO (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Monitors
Check Points in the West Bank. http://www.ochaopt.org
Slide 9 Poverty: from Un=OCHA 2008 Soco-Economic Factor in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories
http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/OCHA_oPt_SocioEconomics_Fact_Sheet_April_2008_En
glish.pdf
Fatalities: B’Tselem 2000-2008
http://www.btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.asp
Water: B’Tselem Water Crisis 2007 Report.
http://www.btselem.org/english/Water/Shared_Sources.asp
Slide 10
Palestinian Monitor
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article11
Palestinian ministry to prison affairs
http://sumoud.tao.ca/?q=node/view/720
Barriers to education fact sheet Birzeit University
http://right2edu.birzeit.edu/downloads/pdfs/BarriersFactSheet_2005.pdf
Slide 11-15
UN OCHA (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Power Point
Slide 13
(United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Maps theWest Bank and
fragmentation of land. http://www.ochaopt.org
Slide 16
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz. November 29, 2007
Slide 17
B’Tselem 2007 Annual report: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Page 13.
www.btselem.org/Download/200712_Annual_Report_eng.doc
Human Rights Watch
2004 Briefing to the o the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/01/29/isrlpa7482.htm
United Nations General Assembly (1984). “Report of the Secretary-General, Living Conditions
of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Retrieved 25 September
2006 from . This is the source for all statistics on demolitions between 1967 and 1982. In the
actual report these are listed as punitive demolitions because all demolitions were classified
as “Collective Punishment.”
According the Human rights watch Collective punishment is a violation of the fourth Geneva
convention serious violations of international humanitarian law, including the mistreatment of
persons in custody and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian property, when committed
with criminal intent amount to war crimes (HRW June 2008)
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions: 2007. Article: Demolition Statistics Since
1967. http://www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=402
United Nations Commission on Human Rights 2004 Report: Question of the Violation of
Human rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, Including,
Palestine.
Slide 18
Quote ; Including,
://www.poica.org/editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=455
Shaul Mofaz Quote
rhttp://www.btselem.org/Download/200101_Civilians_Under_Siege_Eng.doc
Slide 19
Curfews; http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman01252008.html
Permit System quote: UNHCR Commission on
Human Rights, Sixtieth Session.
http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/fd807e46661e3689852570d00069e918/2aa105942bee1a
2e85256e67006e6d7b!OpenDocument
Slide 20
B’Tselem 2007 Annual report: Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Page 33.
www.btselem.org/Download/200712_Annual_Report_eng.doc
Infastructure in the West Bank, July 2007. http://www.ochaopt.org/
Slide 21
B'Tselem, "Forbidden Roads: The Discriminatory West Bank Road Regime," August 2004.
Slide 22
Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank.
http://contradictme.wordpress.com/the-world-bank-funds-israelpalestine-wall
Also: (Kav L’Oved, Israeli workers rights organization
Slide 23
UN OCHA The Humanitarian Impact on Palestinians of Israeli settlements and other
Slide 24
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Document
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2007/Signing%20of%20Memoran
dum%20of%20Understanding%20between%20Israel%20and%20the%20United%20States%2016Aug-2007
Slide 25
Sharon Quote:
http://mideastfacts.org/facts/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=27
Peace Now 2008-09 Report
http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=61&fld=495&docid=3497
Badil: Ongoing Nakba
http://www.badil.org/al-majdal/2008/autumn-winter/majdal39-40.pdf
Slide 26
Fact sheet Interfaith peace Initiative
http://www.interfaithpeaceinitiative.com/ApartheidDiscussion.htm
Badil: Ongoing Nakba
http://www.badil.org/al-majdal/2008/autumn-winter/majdal39-40.pdf
Slide 29 and 31
UN OCHA (United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) Power Point