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2 Dlanket dehumanization of a people used as

propaganda tactic
2 Israel has devoted enormous energy to:
± Expel Palestinians from their homes
± Strip away Palestinians identity
± Deny Palestinian¶s existence
2 Maps, books, photos reference Palestine
± Daedecker's famous guidebook (1876) was
entitled Palestine ± Syria

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Israeli leaders refer to the Palestinians
in their derogatory, racist statements?
2 If Palestine / Palestinians never existed,
why are there resources (Pre-1948)
referencing Palestine and it¶s people?
2 If Palestinians never existed, what
people lived there when European Jews
arrived?
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losses balanced by claims resulting from
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2 Palestinians largely defenseless in 1948

2 Exodus was involuntary and enforced
2 Never relinquished their rights of home & land
2 Significant proportion terrorized into leaving
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2 Would nearly 1 million people living peacefully
on a land for hundreds and hundreds of years
suddenly decide to pick up and leave because
they felt like it? Where were they going?

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 This is a religious war that has been
going on for thousands of years mainly
between Jews and Muslims
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long, there¶s no chance for it to end in a
short time period
2 6
 There has never been peace in the
Middle East

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2 Christian, Jews, Muslims have been living
together peacefully for hundreds of years
2 Difficulties have only started with an
exclusive, religiously pure apartheid system
2 Israel loves saying it because
± Longer it goes on, more time to build illegal
settlements and humiliate Palestinians
± Implies Jews have been there long time
2 Makes îmericans feel that there¶s no hope
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colonist / Zionists arrived?
2 If it¶s a religious war, how come we rarely
hear about the Palestinian Christians?
Where do they fit in?
2 If it¶s a religious war, why isn¶t it going on in
Morocco, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and many other
countries were both Jews and Muslims live?

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 Palestinians get 95% of land

2 6
 îdministrative control over some
Palestinian neighborhoods around
Jerusalem
2 6
 îdministrative & civil control over
Palestinians living in West Dank & Gaza

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2 Continued building of bypass roads
2 Checkpoints every few miles
2 No real sovereign control over borders
2 No control over water or air space
2 Non-contiguous land
 
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2 Continued Israeli military control over large

segments of the West Dank, including
almost all of Jordan Valley
2 Codified right of Israeli forces to be
deployed in Palestinian state at short notice
2 Continued presence of fortified illegal Israeli
settlements and Jewish-only roads in the
heart of the Palestinian state
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2 ·equired nearly 4 million

Palestinian refugees to relinquish
their fundamental human rights in
exchange for compensation to be
paid not by Israel but by the
"international community."

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Palestinian state?
2 Why don¶t Palestinians have control of its
external borders and water resources?
2 Why is Israel NOT carrying out a FULL
withdrawal as required by international law?
2 Why is there no Palestinian ·ight of ·eturn?
2 Why is refugee compensation to be paid by
³international community´?
2 Why do Palestinians need to ³compromise´
any more?
± îlready only left with ÔÔ3;of their original land!
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 Claims to be only democratic

state in Middle East
2 6
 Israel civilized an uncivilized
world and made the ³desert bloom´
2 6
 Israeli Palestinians have equal
rights

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2 Israel¶s ³Law of ·eturn´ gives automatic

citizenship to any Jew
2 No defined borders
2 No constitution; Only series of laws that
establishes Jewish supremacy over non-Jews
± Torture is legal
îpplies only to
± Land confiscation is legal Palestinian
Israeli citizens
± Indefinite detention without charge

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state for Jews? That¶s blatant racism.
2 How can you call a country a democracy
when it doesn¶t even have a constitution or
defined borders?
2 Why does Israel grant citizenship to a Jew
from ·ussia but not to an indigenous
Palestinian who was born on that land?
2 Why does US provide unconditional support
to an overtly exclusive, racist state?

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 2 Israel is a full democracy only if
we are to consider îpartheid
South îfrica a full democracy
2 Yes « Israel is a democracy if
you¶re Jewish
2 It¶s like saying US is a democracy
as long as you¶re white

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2 Palestinians chose to leave their land
2 This is a religious war that has lasted

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2 Israel has made ³generous´ offers to
Palestinians and they never accept
2 Israel is a democracy

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2 ·ight to ·eturn
± Violation of International Laws
± ·efugee Crisis
2 Illegal Settlements
± House Demolitions
± ·esources
2 Occupation
± Denial of Self Determination
± Human ·ights Violations
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2 ·ight of ·eturn is right of Palestinians to:
± ·eturn to their homeland
± Full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed
property in accordance with Int¶l Laws
2 Why it¶s not discussed?
± Tied to racist nature of exclusive state
± Israeli¶s spin it as a ³demographic problem´
2 The ·eality
± In 20 years population will be 55% Palestinian
Christian and Muslim and 45% Jewish
± Israel is afraid if right to return is implemented, the
special state of Jewish character is ruined
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2 Permanent return desirable for peace to prevail
2 Ignoring it contradicts every link to democracy
± What if everyone in US says we want an exclusive
Christian state or exclusive white state? Means 

Latinos, îsians, îfrican îmericans, etc«allowed

2 Ignoring it goes against basic îmerican values
of openness to diversity, acceptance of people
no matter what race, creed, ethnicity
2 It¶s universal basic right!

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2 îbout 5½ million Palestinian ·efugees

2 Oldest & largest refugee problem in the world
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± Onto fourth generation of refugees
± Some made refugees multiple times 1948 & 1967
2 Ways of dispossession
± Home demolitions«.displaced again
± Israeli Laws

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Israel shows that 78% of Israelis
are living in 14% of Israel and
that the remaining 86% of the
land in Israel is mostly land that
belongs to the refugees on which
22% of the Israelis live.

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2 Large housing projects/cities built illegally by
Israel on land confiscated from Palestinians
within West Dank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip
2 Degan as a means of controlling & annexing
Palestinian land occupied during ³1967 War´
2 Serves Israel¶s strategic, military, economic
interests
± Impedes peace process; creates ³facts on ground´
2 Constant reminder and humiliation to
Palestinians in an îpartheid system

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2 80% water aquifers in West Dank

2 Illegal settlements strategically placed
on top of water aquifers & mountains
2 Illegal settlements get priority access
± îs illegal settlements are built or expand,
water taken away from Palestinians

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 When supplies run low during
ÿ summer, Israeli water company
shuts off valves that supply
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 get full swimming pools while
Palestinian villages a few miles
away run out of drinking water.

Settlers attack Palestinians'

water supply, severing pipes and
switching off valves. They dump Israeli army has
untreated sewage on Palestinian routinely
land, polluting wells and aquifers. destroyed water
supplies, an
SOU·CE: activity defined
http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=744&CategoryId=4 as a war crime.

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2 Sole source of income for many Palestinian

farmers
± Each tree yields approximately 5 gallons of oil sold
at markets for equivalent of about $75 (U.S.)
2 Olive Trees passed down through
generations of Palestinian families
± Takes decades to mature fully
2 More than 11,000 olive trees have been
uprooted and destroyed
2 Under attack by Settlers

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2 Classic colonial practice ± attacking or
eliminating habitat of indigenous population
± Carry out collective punishment either in retaliation
for, or as deterrence against, acts of resistance
2 Violations of International Law
± Demolish villages and create policies refusing to
grant them building permits
± Encouraging and subsidizing construction of illegal
Israeli settlements
2 Creating nation of homeless & dispossessed
  
 

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2 Loss of control over natural resources

2 Imposition of suffocating closures and
curfews
2 Destruction of Palestinian land and
property
2 Suppression of free statement
2 Systematic destruction of the
Palestinian economy

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agreements between an occupier
and any body in occupied areas to
be null and void if they deprive
civilians of recognized human
rights including the rights to
repatriation and restitution.

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