Background Information
on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Apartheid Wall/Separation Fence • History • Maps • Fact Sheets • Images
Palestine the Country • Refugees/Right of Return
Palestinian Minority in Israel • Israeli
Settlements in Palestine • Key Documents
Israel's Apartheid Wall being built on Palestinian Land
Maps
and facts on the Apartheid Wall - from the Israeli peace group
Gush Shalom
Israel's Apartheid Wall Fact Sheet - from Jerusalem Indymedia
The
Mayor
of Qalqilya explains the Impact of Israel's Apartheid Wall
The Apartheid Wall Campaign
- Palestinian Environmental NGO Network
Map
showing how Apartheid Wall is not on Green line but
creates Ghettos
The Gates of Mah'sa -
JATO Member reports on stolen farmland due to apartheid wall
The Earth is Flat in
Qalqiliya - the Apartheid Wall in Qalqiliya
History
Origin of the
Palestine-Israel Conflict - published by Jews for Justice in the
Middle East
Effect of Jewish immigrants on indigenous Palestinian population
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Middle-East Timeline - presented by the BBC
Timeline of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - published by MidEast
Web
Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - published by Middle
East Research and Information Project
Barak's "Generous Offers"
- a flash presentation of Barak's "Generous Offers" -- the
facts versus the myth, why the Oslo accords failed
Maps
Map of Settlements - Israeli
Settlements established in the Palestinian Territory Occupied since
June 1967
Map of Checkpoints -
Israeli Checkpoints in West Bank
Map of 1947 Partition Plan and Present Day -
Along with an Explanation of the partition plan, UN Resolution 181.
Key Maps - The BBC presents a series of clear, concise maps.
More Maps from the UN on "the question of Palestine" - a
comprehensive and useful list of maps of the territories and
settlements.
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Lexicon - Very informative
and well-thought out.
Fact Sheet About the
Occupation - Basic facts and speaking points about the
34-year Occupation of Palestine.
Palestine: Cycle of Violence or Illegal Occupation?
- PDF informational
flyer published by
Fact Sheet: What is Occupation? - from
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Fact Sheet: An Overview of the Gaza Strip - from
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
Debunking 6 Common Israeli myths - from The Electronic Intifada.
West Bank,
Gaza,
Israel
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Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook 2000
Palestine Fact Sheet - Concise information from the Palestine
Monitor.
Images
Israel's War of Terror - Photographs of the Destruction, from
Electronic Intifada
Intifada: The Birth of a Nation -
Photojournalist Judah Passow remembers the 1987-1993 Palestinian
uprising.
Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and
Environment
- Images from the current Intifada.
Images from the Occupied Territories - from
United Nations
Key UN Resolutions on Palestine -
Israel is in defiance of 69 UN Security Council resolutions. A
brief explanation of some important resolutions.
UN Resolution 181, 1947 Partition Plan -
Maps and analysis.
Israel's Response to the UN Resolutions
- why Israel doesn't implement UN Resolutions.
Current UN documents on Palestine - up-to-the-minute documents being
published by the UN in regards to Palestinian refugees,
Israeli policies, the right to self-determination, etc.
Summary of UN Agreements on Human Rights - Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, right of self-determination, convention against
genocide, convention against torture.
Red Cross: a brief history of the Four Geneva Conventions
International Humanitarian Law: the Only Way Forward - from PCHR
Palestine the Country
The Country of Palestine - extensive links and information
Palestine Remembered - attempts to preserve the memory and
experience of Palestinians around the world.
Palestinian Refugees/Right of Return
The Right of Return: Sacred, Legal,
Possible - by Salman Abu Sitta
Palestinian
Refugee ResearchNet - Research materials on the Refugees
Destroyed Villages - over a
period of two years, from 1947-1949, the Israel demolished 419 Arab
villages and depopulated the Palestinian Arabs in these towns.
Deir
Yassin Remembered -
the massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin is one of the most
significant events in 20th-century Palestinian and Israeli history
and is key to understanding the root of the refugee problem.
Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel
The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel: An Introduction -
"The common term used by Israelis to describe the Palestinian
minority is 'Israeli Arabs.' This is one manner of denying the
existence of a Palestinian national contingent."
For Jews Only: Racism Inside Israel
- An Interview with Phyllis Bennis, head of the Middle East
Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.
Israel's stranglehold on 1948 Palestinians
- discusses Israel's method of conferring Jewish racial
privilege above Arabs within Israel and the role of this oppression
within the larger conflict.
Israeli Arabs first
- An article from Ha'aretz with personal accounts of
discrimination against the Arab minority within Israel.
Israeli
Settlements in Palestine
Foundation for Middle East Peace - includes the
latest reports on Israeli settlements in the Occupied territories
Fact Sheet: Settlements and Apartheid in the OPT
- from Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Map of Settlements - Israeli
Settlements established in the Palestinian Territory Occupied since
June 1967 Key
Documents
http://thesweaterkittens.com
Jews Against the Occupation home page
The Tenet Plan
- focuses on cease-fire,
resuming security cooperation, ending the violence and restoring the
situation on the ground to what existed before the conflict erupted
in Sept. 2000.
The Oslo Accord
- An accord signed in 1994 by Israel and the PLO on Palestinian
self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.