Palestine Research Essay Research Paper In the

Palestine Research Essay, Research Paper

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful

Palestine’s Islamic Homepage

Other Palestine Sites on the Web

The Islamic Association for Palestine

Palestine Homepage: University of Oregon

The General Union of Palestine Students

The Story of the Zionist Occupation of Palestine

Muslim Students Association at the University of Texas at Austin

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Preface

The following pages tell the story of the occupation of Palestine. It tells about the history of the occupation and about the suffering of a nation and a people. Those people who had their whole lives changed by the foreign inhumane and brutal invaders but are still fighting back.

We feel that we owe it the thousands of martyrs who sacrificed their lives for Palestine, to tell the story of Palestine and its people.

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The Occupation Begins

Life Under Occupation: Land

Life Under Occupation: Water

International Law and Occupation

The Economy

Medical Care

Collective Punishment

Schools and Education

Civil Liberties

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The Occupation Begins

After illegally depriving the people of Palestine from their right to live peacefully on their full land by giving most of it to the zionist Israelis in 1947-8, the international community again looked away as Israel took over the rest of Palestine and Jerusalem in 1967.

On June 7, 1967, during the third Arab-Israeli war, the Israeli army entered the Jordan-administered Palestinian territory known as the West Bank. It forced large numbers of civilians to flee by bombing and napalming their villages and refugee camps. Within days the Arab armies had agreed to a cease-fire.

Israeli journalist Amos Kenan described what happened two days after the cease-fir was declared when his platoon was ordered to `straighten out’ its `sector’- that is, to destroy the three Palestinian villages of Yalu, Beit Nuba and Emmaus. The Israelis ordered the villagers to abandon their houses and go to a village in a different “sector”. Later They learned that that village too was being bulldozed: “It was not in our sector alone that areas were being `straightened out’.”

Many of the villagers who were driven out without food and water perished on the road; those who survived became refugees. Kenan’s platoon then proceeded to demolish the beautiful stone houses that stood in orchards of carefully-tended olive trees, apricots and grapevines: “Non one could understand how Jews could do such a thing. Even those who justified the action said that it should have been possible to provide shelter for the population, that a final decision should have been taken as to their fate, as to where they were to go….The chickens and pigeons were buried under the rubble. The fields were turned to desolation before our eyes, and the children who dragged themselves along the road that day, weeping bitterly, will be the Fedayeen (fighters) of 19 years hence. This is how, that day, we lost the victory.”

The children expelled by Amos Kenan’s platoon were among 300,000 Palestinians driven out of the West Bank and Gaza when Israel “lost the victory” in June 1967. Left behind under Israeli rule were one million Palestinians, parents to the generation of the Intifada (uprising).

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Life Under Occupation

What have twenty-eight years of Israeli occupation meant for the Palestinians the West Bank and Gaza, who numbered one million after the forced expulsions of 1967 and approach one and a half million today.

Land

What have twenty-eight years of Israeli occupation meant for the Palestinians the West Bank and Gaza, who numbered one million after the forced expulsions of 1967 and approach one and a half million today.

From 1967 on powerful forces within Israel have argued for the permanent retention of the territories: this was not the `temporary’ occupation recognized by international law. In October 1967 Israel’s chief rabbi talked about the West Bank in the following way:

“The land was promised to us by the Almighty and all the prophets foretold its return to us. Therefore, it is forbidden for any Jew ever to consider returning any part whatsoever of the land of our forefathers.”

Twenty-two years later, Israeli Prime Minister Shamir proclaims the same message, calling the people of Palestine, who had inhabited the land centuries before the first Hebrew tribes migrated to the region, “alien invaders in the land of Israel that belongs to the people of Israel, and only to them.”

In violation of international law and defiance of the United Nations, the Israeli government in June 1967 annexed Arab East Jerusalem. The following year the ruling Labor Party began to colonize the West Bank with Jewish settlements.

When the Likud Party took power in 1977, it intensified colonization, pouring some $1 billion into settlement building over the next seven years. Likud gave free rein to the aggressive religious nationalism of the Gush Emunim (the `Bloc of the Faithful’), who believe that Israel’s inheritance of the whole land of Grea

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