If Americans Knew

 

What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine

 

 

     US Interests

• US Interests and Israel/Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/
• U.S. Middle East Policy - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/policy.html
• Pressure Groups on US Middle East Policy - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/lobby.html
• Israeli Spying on the United States - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/spy.html
• The USS Liberty - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html
• Neoconservatives - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/neocons.html
• War on Iran? Is Iran Next? - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/iran.html
• Israel-Palestine and the 2008 US Election - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/2008.html

 

     History

• A Synopsis of the Israel/Palestine Conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/
• The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
• Maps of Israel and Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/maps.html#settlementsHistoric Palestine
  UN Partition of Palestine
  1948 Israel, West Bank, and Gaza Strip
  Refugees and Depopulated Villages
  1967 and Occupation
  Annexation of Jerusalem
  Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land
• Refugees and Ethnic Cleansing - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/refugees.html
• A Jewish State - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/jewish_state.html
• The History of Israel's Sacred Terrorism Terrorism in Israel and Palestine - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/terrorism.html
• The Prevalence of Torture - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/prevtorture.html
• Religion in the Holy Land - The conflict in the Middle East is not a religious conflict - http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/religion.html

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http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/settlements.html

Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land

Israel currently has 121 Jewish-only settlements and 106 'outposts' on confiscated Palestinian land.

Palestinians do not have any settlements on Israeli land.

"The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."                 - Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949

Source: According to Peace Now's report, "Aerial Survey Settlements Summary 2006," there are 121 official Israeli settlements. According to their report, Periodic Report, May-October 2007 there are at least 106 outposts and more than 50 of them have been built since March 2001.

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