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An Archive Documenting Israel’s Military Occupation of Palestinian Lands

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Israel planning 50,000 housing units in East Jerusalem

If the East Jerusalem construction plans are implemented, they will make it impossible to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said [Orly Noy,] an activist of the left-wing Ir Amim non-governmental organization. [T]he East Jerusalem construction "will move Israel beyond the point of no return, as far as an agreed solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is concerned," she said.

IOA Editor: The history of the past 100 years clearly indicates that this is the intended purpose of the planned projects. Bit by bit - "dunam here and dunam there," as the old Zionist adage goes - the carefully planned expansion will forever eliminate even the theoretical possibility of a Palestinian state. For example, see the following:

Orly Noy: New Construction in East Jerusalem – What It Really Means
EU envoys: Israel trying to sever East Jerusalem from West Bank
New West Bank roads jeopardizing chances for peace accord
Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement
...

11 March 2010 / Read More

Israeli court to hear civil case over death of Rachel Corrie in Gaza

Cindy Corrie, Rachel's mother, said the family was still waiting for the credible, transparent investigation Israel first promised into her daughter's death. "I just want to say to Rachel that our family is here today trying to just do right by her and I hope that she will be very proud of the effort we are making," she said....

10 March 2010 / Read More

David Kimche dies; Israeli spy involved in Iran-contra scandal

He had been "the man with the suitcase," who would "appear in an African country a day or two before a major coup and leave a week later after the new regime was firmly in control, often with the aid of Israeli security teams." Mr. Kimche later supervised agents who infiltrated Arab countries. Haaretz said he was... a founder of Mossad's research department.

IOA Editor: Kimche was probably involved in the Mossad's assassination campaign in Europe in the 1970s-1980s, specifically targeting moderate Palestinians - those who posed the greatest threat to Israel's occupation of lands conquered in the 1967 war....

10 March 2010 / Read More

US: East Jerusalem plan undermines peace talks

Meir Margalit, Meretz's representative to the Jerusalem city council, claimed that the statement was meant to disrupt a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, saying that he had "no doubt that the timing isn't coincidental," calling the announcement Interior Minister "Eli Yishai's answer to Netanyahu's willingness to renew indirect peace talks with the Palestinians."

IOA Editor: Business as usual, Occupation as usual. As we already know, Israel often behaves as an ungrateful client-state. The Obama White House accepts such behavior with love and understanding....

9 March 2010 / Read More

Top Fatah official faces jail over Jerusalem protests

Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein filed a litany of charges against senior Fatah official Hatem Abdul Qader, all in relation to recent civil unrest among Palestinians in Jerusalem....

7 March 2010 / Read More

Palestinian boy freed from IDF jail without paying bail

Amira Hass: The boy has been held since his first remand hearing, on March 2, when his father was unable to pay the NIS 2,000 the court required for him to be released on bail. He was released on Sunday without paying bail.

More on child-arrest: IDF arrests two 13-14 old Palestinian boys accused of picking protected flowers, which are said to have been edible greens (Hebrew)....

7 March 2010 / Read More

Hundreds protest police brutality at Jaffa rally

MK Dov Khenin (Hadash): "We have come here today to say clearly that human rights do not end at the borders of Jaffa. We demand that residents of Jaffa receive equal rights, be treated decently by the authorities, especially the police."

UPDATE: Ajami co-director ahead of the Oscars: I don't represent Israel

Ajami co-director Scandar Copti on Sunday said that he does not represent Israel, hours before his film competes for the best foreign film Oscar at the Academy Awards, Army Radio reported. "I am not Israel's national team and do not represent her," Copti reportedly said... "The film technically represents Israel, but I don't represent Israel. I cannot represent a country that does not represent me," he said... (Haaretz - 7 March 2010)...

6 March 2010 / Read More

Islamic conference slams Israel’s Al-Aqsa action

[Secretary-general of the pan-Islamic body] called on the international community and the Quartet on Middle East peace -- the European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations -- to "pay heed to the gravity of the Israeli violations and the threat they pose to the region now and in the future."...

6 March 2010 / Read More

UN official: Israel ‘nourishing despair’ in Gaza

Eighty percent of the people in Gaza are essentially dependent on outside food aid, either from UNWRA or the World Food Program. Not because there isn't food in the shops - there is - but they can't afford it, or they can't afford enough of it because any livelihoods that there were, any jobs that there were outside the government have effectively disappeared. Most private businesses have been destroyed, essentially by the blockade - bulldozed - and the rest finished off by Cast Lead....

5 March 2010 / Read More

Israel’s Supreme Court slams police over Sheikh Jarrah protests

[C]riticism was issued by the justices during a court hearing on a petition filed by residents of Sheikh Jarrah, who demanded to be allowed to protest on this coming Saturday night, a demonstration the police hasn't authorized. The justices sided with the residents and stressed that the police should not seize the residents' right to protest. "The police's behavior regarding these protests takes us 30 years backwards," the justices said....

4 March 2010 / Read More

39 army raids, 28 arrests: Just another day in the West Bank

Palestinian Agriculture Minister Ismail Daiq: "The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank."...

1 March 2010 / Read More

Jerusalem families come out against museum built on ancestors’ graves

Members of prominent Palestinian families from Jerusalem came out last week in protest against plans by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a Museum of Tolerance on top of part of the ancient Mamilla Cemetery where their ancestors are buried.

IOA Editor: For more on this Israeli desecration of Muslim cemetery, read:
1. The Center for Constitutional Rights' Mamila Cemetery Fact Sheet
2. Nadia Hijab: Scattered in death as in life
3. Mamilla Cemetery Chutzpah and the Museum of Tolerance by Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center/Museum of Tolerance....

25 February 2010 / Read More

FEATURED COMMENTARIES

Gideon Levy: Thank you, Eli Yishai, for exposing the peace process masquerade

Gideon Levy: Thank you, Eli Yishai, for exposing the peace process masquerade

What's the big deal? Another 1,600 apartments for ultra-Orthodox Jews on occupied, stolen land? Jerusalem won't ever be divided, Benjamin Netanyahu promised, in another applause-winning move. In that case, why not build in it? The Americans have agreed to all this, so they have no reason to pretend to be insulted....

11 Mar 2010 / Read More

Jonathan Cook: Israel Set to Join Club of Richest Nations

Jonathan Cook: Israel Set to Join Club of Richest Nations

"The OECD seems to be so determined to get Israel through its door that it is prepared to cover up the crimes of the occupation," said Shir Hever, a Jerusalem-based economist. Israel has been lobbying for nearly 20 years to be admitted to the OECD, founded in 1961 for wealthy industrialized democracies to meet and coordinate economic and social policies. It includes the United States and most of Europe....

8 Mar 2010 / Read More

Assaf Kfoury: Whither Hezbollah

Assaf Kfoury: Whither Hezbollah

Hezbollah is the guerilla force that stymied the Israeli military in southern Lebanon in the 1990’s. The Israeli occupiers and their proxies in the South Lebanon Army finally gave up and withdrew in May 2000. In a return confrontation in July-August 2006, Hezbollah again stood its ground, and the Israeli military was again stunned by a gritty enemy....

8 Mar 2010 / Read More

Moshe Machover: Israeli Socialism and anti-Zionism

Moshe Machover:  Israeli Socialism and anti-Zionism

[The] main theses are two sides of one medal:

1. In Israel the struggle for socialism must be part of a regional struggle; and it necessarily implies a struggle to overthrow Zionism.

2. Conversely, a defensive struggle against the worst effects of Zionism can be waged on its own as a series of one-issue campaigns, by single-issue groupings; but Zionism cannot and will not be overthrown in this way. It can only be overthrown as part of a socialist transformation of the entire region, the Arab East. And it requires an organization set up according to this strategy....

7 Mar 2010 / Read More

Gideon Levy: There has never been an Israeli peace camp

Gideon Levy: There has never been an Israeli peace camp

The Israeli peace camp didn't die. It was never born in the first place. While it's true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation - all worthy of recognition - a large, influential peace camp has never existed here....

7 Mar 2010 / Read More

Video Interview: Jeff Halper – The Global Pacification Industry

Video Interview: Jeff Halper – The Global Pacification Industry

Interview with Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel....

5 Mar 2010 / Read More

Amira Hass: How will the next Palestinian uprising look?

Amira Hass: How will the next Palestinian uprising look?

The truth is that the suicide attacks on civilians gave Israel a golden opportunity to implement plans, which had always existed, to confiscate more and more Palestinian lands, using the excuse of "security." The use of weapons did not stop the colonialist expansion of the Jewish settlements. On the contrary. And the use of weapons only accelerated a process Israel began in 1991: disconnecting the Gaza Strip from the West Bank....

3 Mar 2010 / Read More

Salman Masalha: Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at the West Bank

Salman Masalha: Israel’s apartheid doesn’t stop at the West Bank

The alienation between Arabs and Jews can be seen everywhere. It has not arisen solely in the context of the national conflict, but is rather a result of an establishment policy which has expropriated Arabs' lands to build communities "for Jews only" and has pushed the Arab inhabitants into localities under an "ethno-Zionist siege" on all sides....

3 Mar 2010 / Read More

Akiva Eldar: No country would accept Netanyahu’s conditions for peace

Akiva Eldar: No country would accept Netanyahu’s conditions for peace

The only difference between "the rock of our existence" that launched the Western Wall tunnel violence in 1996 and the 2010 model is that this time Netanyahu is wearing a mask, trying to pass himself off as peace activist Uri Avnery, with the generous help of Defense Minister Ehud Barak....

1 Mar 2010 / Read More

John Pilger: Listen to the heroes of Israel

John Pilger: Listen to the heroes of Israel

John Pilger reminds us of the struggle by an extraordinary few in Israel against the repression and lawlessness of the occupation of Palestine. They are the inspiration to break the loud silence in the Jewish diaspora....

28 Feb 2010 / Read More

Nadia Hijab: Scattered in death as in life

Nadia Hijab: Scattered in death as in life

[T]he battle over Jerusalem's Mamilla Cemetery, a Muslim cemetery known in Arabic as Maman Allah, where the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center intends to build a Museum of Tolerance, ... encapsulates many aspects of Israel's approach to Palestinian rights since the conflict began....

25 Feb 2010 / Read More

Henry Siegman: For Israel, defiance comes at the cost of legitimacy

Henry Siegman: For Israel, defiance comes at the cost of legitimacy

The disappearance of the two-state solution is triggering a third transformation, which is turning Israel from a democracy into an apartheid state. The democracy Israel provides for its (mostly) Jewish citizens cannot hide its changed character. A democracy reserved for privileged citizens while all others are denied individual and national rights and kept behind checkpoints, barbed wire fences and separation walls manned by Israel’s military, is not democracy....

24 Feb 2010 / Read More

Joel Beinin: Confronting Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem

Joel Beinin: Confronting Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem

The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, a 20-minute walk up the hill from the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem, has become the focal point of the struggle over the expanding project of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem and the West Bank....

23 Feb 2010 / Read More

IOA Editor's Last Word


As regular readers already know, the IOA does not advocate a specific solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (e.g., one-State vs. two-State) or endorse a particular Palestinian group or viewpoint. Rather, from its inception, the IOA's focal point has been a steadfast opposition to the Israeli Occupation and support for an equitable solution for all Palestinians - a basic right of an oppressed people to self-determination.

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Left-wing groups to protest NY visit of Ashkenazi

Left-wing groups to protest NY visit of Ashkenazi

A massive demonstration will greet IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi when he arrives at the luxury Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan this week to speak at a Friends of the IDF fund-raiser.

UPDATE: It was a large turnout and we marched around the midtown block filled by the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Some so-called "pro-Israel" folks tried to change our minds... and a separate Palestinian protest took place nearby. The authorities were not unfriendly, and one or two individuals -- working on behalf of one or more, local or foreign, government agencies -- recorded the images of each of us as we passed by their lenses....

8 Mar 2010 / Read More

Rela Mazali: At the Waldorf, Helmet in Hand

Rela Mazali: At the Waldorf, Helmet in Hand

Israeli generals live a life of luxury and extravagance, mostly shaded from public scrutiny, while their soldiers enforce a brutal and criminal occupation upon the Palestinian people. Now they appropriately choose the Waldorf Astoria in New York to solicit more American money. New Profile, an Israeli feminist movement for the civil-zation of Israeli society, asks US citizens to just say NO....

7 Mar 2010 / Read More

Thousands protest Jewish presence in East Jerusalem

Thousands protest Jewish presence in East Jerusalem

About 5,000 left-wing activists and Palestinians gathered Saturday to protest the eviction of four Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Protesters carried Palestinian flags and chanted "Stop the destruction of homes" and "There is no sanctity in an occupied city." ...

6 Mar 2010 / Read More

IDF recording license plates of Israeli anti-fence protesters

IDF recording license plates of Israeli anti-fence protesters

"Perhaps they are listening in on our phone calls, looking into our e-mails, or they have a snitch," [one demonstrator] told Haaretz. "We do not know and do not bother ourselves about these things. We are not an underground organization and our activities are open, but the army has recently been investing a great deal of intelligence effort in preventing us from demonstrating."...

2 Mar 2010 / Read More

Universities worldwide mark ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’

Universities worldwide mark ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’

A filmmaker, anthropologist and economic researcher are among those headlining events marking what pro-Palestinian organizers have declared as "Israeli Apartheid Week" - and all three speakers are Israeli.

IOA Editor: More on Apartheid Week 2010 at: http://apartheidweek.org/ ...

1 Mar 2010 / Read More

Judith Butler: As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up

Judith Butler: As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up

But now I feel that it has become more possible, more urgent to reconsider the politics of the BDS. It is not that the principles of the BDS have changed: they have not. But there are now ways to think about implementing the BDS that keep in mind the central focus: any event, practice, or institution that seeks to normalize the occupation, or presupposes that "ordinary" cultural life can continue without an explicit opposition to the occupation is itself complicit with the occupation....

28 Feb 2010 / Read More

EU court strikes blow against Israeli settlers

EU court strikes blow against Israeli settlers

The EU court in Luxembourg has ruled that Israel cannot pass off products made by its settlers on occupied Palestinian land as its own in order to get customs perks... It is unlikely to have a big financial impact... But the judgment has political weight in the context of long-standing EU complaints that Israeli support for settlers is damaging the Middle East peace process....

25 Feb 2010 / Read More

Israel grants visas to witnesses in suit over Rachel Corrie death

Israel grants visas to witnesses in suit over Rachel Corrie death

Under pressure from the United States, Israel is to grant visas to four activists from the International Solidarity Movement so they can testify in suit brought against the government by the family of Rachel Corrie, an activist killed by an IDF bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003....

23 Feb 2010 / Read More

RECENT VIDEO CLIPS





MORE/LARGER VIDEOS


A selection of videos covering the Occupation and related subjects, all in larger format:


  • Al Jazeera: Israeli apartheid week
  • No Tutu is Big Enough to Cover War up Crimes
  • The Murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh
  • Flash Mob Boycot Israeli Apartheid
  • Howard Zinn: 1922-2010
  • Flash Mob Boycot Israeli Apartheid
  • Israeli cages (Huwwara checkpoint)
  • Sheikh Jarrah protest [Jerusalem]
  • Open Shuhada Street! [Hebron]
  • Conversation with Jonathan Cook
  • Walid Khalidi: UN Address on Jerusalem
  • Stop $30 Billion to Israel
  • “Elie Wiesel, Come with us to Gaza!”
  • Uri Gopher - Istikbal
  • Palestinians denied access to water
  • US U-turn on Middle East peace process
  • The Middle East's water war
  • Jewish lobby with a [tiny?] difference
  • Amira Hass: life-time achievement award
  • Al Jazeera: Israel's illegal detentions
  • David Beeri, chief Jerusalem digger
  • Bil'in night raid, some injuries
  • Israeli soldiers fire on Al Jazeera reporter
  • Homeless in East Jerusalem
  • Who Profits from the Israeli Occupation?
  • Walled Horizons, Part 1
  • Walled Horizons, Part 2
  • Human Rights Activist Ezra Nawi's arrest
  • Settler assaults Peace Now volunteers
  • Amy Goodman interviews Amira Hass
  • Memory of the Cactus - Latroun Villages


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Dry and Thirsty Land

A dry and thirsty land

A dry and thirsty land

IOA Editor: Very important coverage of Israeli policies intended to make life impossible for Palestinians in the West Bank - a key part of the greater offensive on the future of...

Aug 18, 2009 / More

Area-E1

New West Bank roads jeopardizing chances for peace accord

New West Bank roads jeopardizing chances for peace accord

[T]he area known as E1, linking the settlement to East Jerusalem... is the only area that [candidate] Netanyahu explicitly committed to developing... His political rival... Ehud Barak also publicly expressed support for building...

May 14, 2009 / More

Settlement Database

Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement

Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement

Just four years ago, the defense establishment decided to carry out a seemingly elementary task: establish a comprehensive database on the settlements......

Jan 30, 2009 / More

Gaza Q & A

Stephen R. Shalom: Question and Answer on Gaza

Stephen R. Shalom: Question and Answer on Gaza

On December 27, 2008, Israel launched its brutal assault on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead. Here are many of the most frequently-asked questions and answers, and information sources....

Jan 16, 2009 / More

IDF Hate Culture

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009

Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques – IDF fashion 2009

Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days...

Mar 21, 2009 / More

Peace Doesn't Pay

Amira Hass: Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay

Amira Hass: Israel knows that peace just doesn’t pay

Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace...

May 11, 2009 / More

Ryuichi Hirokawa

Photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa’s best shot

Photographer Ryuichi Hirokawa’s best shot

I took this in 2002, at Al-Ram checkpoint on the West Bank. All the checkpoints had been closed by Israeli troops and these women were demonstrating to have them opened, so that food...

Apr 30, 2009 / More

Latroun Villages

Imwas: occupied and destroyed by Israel in 1967

Imwas: occupied and destroyed by Israel in 1967

The village of Imwas (عِمواس) was one of three villages in the Latroun area (Palestine's District of al-Ramla) that were occupied by the IDF in June 1967, during Israel's military conquest of the...

Jul 16, 2009 / More

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