Perspectives on the
Effects of Israel’s Occupation
Reams of articles and countless books have been written on the Israel/Palestine conflict. We have selected only recent articles for your information and have listed them according to the particular topic they cover. Any new article/s added will be shown as “Latest article/s” before being filed under the relevant topic/s. These articles by different writers are their perspectives on the complex issues that have arisen out of this conflict, but regardless of their approach, or in some cases differing opinions, they all come to the same conclusion – that Israel’s occupation must end.
"New UN Map charts West Bank Reality" Financial Times,
4 June 2007
“In Praise of the Occupation” by Amira Hass, 6 June 2007
“The Mirage of the Two-State Solution” by George Bisharat,
4 June 2007
APARTHEID
Abunimah, Ali – “Leaked Israeli document gives frightening glimpse of apartheid”, Electronic Intifada, 25 January 2007
Cook, Jonathan – “Apartheid looks like this”, Al-Ahram Weekly On-Line Issue 833, 22-28 February 2007
Dugard, John – “Apartheid: Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped”, Electronic Intifada, 29 November 2006
St John, Ronald Bruce – “Apartheid by any other name”, Counterpunch, 2 February 2007
CHECKPOINTS
Levy, Gideon – “The Twilight Zone/By the book”, Haaretz Friday Magazine, 1 February 2007
Hass, Amira - “Checkpoint Comradeship”, Haaretz, 21 January 2007
Hass, Amira – “The Über-wardens”, Haaretz, 13 April 2006
Merriman, Rima – “Keepers of the Peace”, San Jose Peace Centre, 24 October 2006
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT
Carter, Jimmy - “Punishing the innocent is a crime”, International Herald Tribune, 7 May 2006
Cook, Jonathan – “Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine”, Counterpunch, 29 September 2006
Ernshire, Eliza – “No Lights in Gaza”, Counterpunch, 4 August, 2006
ETHNIC CLEANSING
Baroud, Ramzy – “Ethnic Cleansing and Israel’s Racist Discourse”, Global Research, 8 February 2007
Christisons, Kathleen & Bill, “Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians”, Counterpunch, 27 November 2006
GAZA
Terror and Starvation in Gaza by John Pilger, 22 May 2007
Egeland, Jan and Eliasson, Jan – “The Human Catastrophe of Gaza is a Time-Bomb” Le Figaro, 28 September 2006
Horton, Richard – “Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care”, New York Review of Books, 15 March 2007
Lowenstein, Jennifer – “Nightmare in Beit Hanoun – How Gaza offends us all”, Information Clearing House, 13 February 2007
OCCUPATION
Palestine: Forty Years of Occupation Lendman, Stephen, 23 May 2007
ONE STATE, TWO STATES
For a Secular Democratic State Saree Makdisi, June 2007
PEACE
Duisenberg, Gretta – Is lasting peace in the Middle East achieveable?” Counterpunch, October 2006
Makdisi, Saree – “No Peace for Israel without justice for the Palestinians”, Houston Chronicle, 15 July 2007
PROFITEERS
Dearden, Nick – “Profiting from the Occupation”, Counterpunch, 6 July 2006
PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
Occupation and the Mind by Dr Samah Jabr, May 2007
RIGHT OF RETURN
Abu Sitta, Salman – “A Sacred Right”, The Guardian, 29 March 2007
SETTLERS/SETTLEMENTS
Hass, Amira – “There’s a settler in every Israeli”, ZNet, 12 July 2006
SHOOT TO KILL
Peled-Elhanan, Nurit – “Let our children live”, Counterpunch, 29 January 2007
SKEWED VIEWS
“Christadelphians take on the 1967 Six Day War” by Bassam Dally, 4 June 2007
STARVATION
HaCohen, Ran - “How to live with hunger”, antiwar.com, 26 February 2007
TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
Hass, Amira – “Impossible Travel Restrictions”, Haaretz, 19 January 2007
THE WALL
Cook, William A. – “Buried Alive: Life inside the Entombment Wall”, Atlantic Free Press, 5 March 2007
ZIONISM
Qumsiyeh, Mazin – “What is Zionism?” from his book “Sharing the Land of Canaan, 2004 – Chapter 6: Zionism)
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