- A. The Israeli military has been given the role by the Israeli
government to govern the Arab areas within Israel (upto 1966),
and then the Occupied Territories occupied in the 1967 war.
They do so through the passage of 'Military Orders', through
which they then oppress and exploit the local Palestinian population.
The impacts of these military orders on the occupied territories
violate significant numbers of International Laws (details -
please see Study
Guide on International Law). Their impact can be identified
in 5 categories:
| 1) Actual Annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights into Israel
itself (more details
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| 2) Creating de facto annexation in the other areas of the occupied territories
by creating a separate set of governing, judicial and
security systems for the Israeli settlements often tied
to Israel (more details
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| 3) Replacing local Arab institutions (Jordanian in the West Bank, Egyptian
in Gaza) of government, judiciary and security with Israeli
military committees or committees completely controlled
by the military, over which local residents have no democratic
say(more details &
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| 4) Creating a web of permits and licenses which control every aspect of
the Palestinian economy. Studies have shown that this
system of permits have then been used to manipulate the
Palestinian economy to the benefit of Israel (more
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5) Uses other methods to constrict Palestinian society that are oppressive
and exploitive (more
details & quotes) --
- (a) Building a web of Israeli settlements, by-pass
roads (for Israeli-use-only), military zones, wilderness
preserves, and a Security Fence/Wall throughout the
territories isolating and/or splitting up Palestinian
communities separating families, cutting off workers
from their jobs, farmers from their fields, students
from their schools, patients from medical care, etc.
which seriously undermines Palestinian society and
economy.
- (d) Installing a system of military checkpoints
throughout occupied Palestine which further limits
movement in inhumane ways (because of the way the
Israeli military manages them), thus further strangling
the economy and social life of Palestinian society;
- (e) Destroying or closing Palestinian civil infrastructure
such as walls, bridges, and roads or by building ditches
around neighborhoods or business centers which further
inhibit movement and isolate Palestinian population
centers and strangles the economy;
- (f) Destroying Palestinian economic assets such
as office buildings, and port and airport facilities,
orchards, and factories which further strangles the
Palestinian economy and social movement;
- (g) Destroying Palestinian security facilities such
as police stations and jails so that they cannot fulfill
peace agreements, or enforce their own laws;
- (h) Enforcing the law in inhumane ways such as imprisonment
without charges or trial, deportations, home and business
demolition, area closures, beatings and torture, assassinating
rebel leaders. Often many of these measures are implemented
on a massive level.
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