scholarly journals Courting Justice? Legitimation in Lawyering under Israeli Occupation

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 349-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Bisharat
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Opposition Movement ◽  
Israeli Occupation

Israel has since 1967 administered the West Bank and Gaza Strip through highly legalistic and strongly repressive military governments. Has advocacy in Israeli courts on behalf of Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Ship has legitimated, and thus helped to perpetuate, ongoing Israeli military occupation of those regions? By examining legitimation in lawyering under lsraeli occupation, insight can be gained into the factors and their relative weights that lawyers facing harsh or repressive regimes must consider in balancing the costs and benefits of litigation to serve a social or political opposition movement. The author concludes that the benefits outweigh the legitimating effects of lawyers' work and that, on balance, Palestinians' election to seek representation in Israeli courts, and lawyers' choice to assist them, has been justified.

Understanding 50 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Land

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-377
Author(s):  
Leila Farsakh
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Sinai Peninsula ◽  
The West ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
One Year ◽  
Israeli Occupation

The year 2017 was important for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, commemorating both the centennial of the Balfour Declaration and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 war. That war, which resulted in Israel's defeat of three Arab armies and its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, transformed the politics of the Middle East. According to UN Security Council Resolution 242, issued in November 1967, the occupation was illegal: Israel would have to withdraw from the territories it occupied if it were to achieve peace with its neighbors. In international law, military occupations are temporary by definition. Israel, however, only returned the Sinai to Egypt in 1982. (One year prior, it unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights from Syria.) Despite a twenty-five-year-long political process initiated in 1993, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has continued unabated.

scholarly journals Water sustainability and the challenges of its application in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Palestine: الاستدامة المائية وتحديات تطبيقها في الضفة الغربية وقطاع غزة بفلسطين

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuad Yousef Rammal, Bouchta Alkhazzan
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Water Sustainability ◽  
The West ◽  
Soil Resources ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Water Strategy ◽  
Israeli Occupation

This research paper aimed to touch base with the water issue and the requirements of its sustainability in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as it is one of the major problems that mortgages development in its comprehensiveness and the security of the whole region, by analyzing the Palestinian water strategy extending from 2014 to 2032, and by comparing it with the requirements and elements of water sustainability mentioned in the related literature. The paper stood to achieve the requirements of water sustainability, with all its components. The paper faces basic challenges, the most important political of which is the domination of the Israeli occupation and its endless violations of Palestinian soil resources, on top of which is water. Other challenges of the institutionalized, material and environmental nature, this study confirmed the necessity of adopting a participatory approach between the different actors, sharing the risks between them, in addition to networking with international strategic partners to move forward in providing safe water supply and sanitation services and their sustainability in the field of study.

scholarly journals Compounding Vulnerability: Impacts of Climate Change on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mason ◽  
Mark Zeitoun ◽  
Ziad Mimi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Environmental Stresses ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Climate Vulnerability ◽  
Israeli Occupation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Coping with (and adapting to) climatological hazards is commonly understood in intergovernmental and aid agency fora as a purely technical matter. This article examines the UN Development Programme's stakeholder consultations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to challenge the donor-driven technical-managerial framing of Palestinian climate vulnerability by showing how Israeli occupation practices exacerbate environmental stresses. While emphasizing the importance of social, economic, and political contexts in shaping populations' responses to climate change in general, the authors demonstrate the multiple ways in which the occupation specifically compounds hazards reveals it as constitutive of Palestinian climate vulnerability.

scholarly journals The AIDOS Project

1970 ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Lebanese American University
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Arab World ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
International Project ◽  
Information Network ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
The Mediterranean

The AIDOS Project: The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, (IWSAW) was selected to take part in an international project aimed at establishing four documentation centers -specialized in women's human, civic, labor and reproductive rights- in fourArab countries: Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The main objective of the project is to create an information network of women's organizations throughout the Mediterranean area.

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