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“. . . published the Road Map to Peace. The premise of this plan, as the Palestinian historians Samih Farsoun and Naseer Aruri point out, "is that the nearly forty-year-old impasse is not caused by an abnormal and illegal occupation but by the Palestinian resistance to that occupation. Progress was thus linked to ending the intifada and all acts of resistance rather than ending the occupation or reversing decades of colonial impoverishment of land, resource, and institutions.”

War Occupation Colonialism Bias Palestine Peace Process

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“What draws me to Palestine, then, is neither nationalism not patriotism, but my sense of justice, my refusal to remain silent in the face of injustice, my unwillingness to just go on living my life -- and enjoying the privileges of a tenured university professor – while trying to block out and ignore what Wordsworth once called the still, sad music of humanity.”

War Occupation Palestine

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“Israel maintains its pressure on the Palestinian population not simply for its own security, then, but because such pressure has for four decades enabled it to maintain control over the territories- and, quite simply, because it encourages Palestinians to leave.”

War Occupation Palestine

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“In this sense (although the 2004 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice would, despite Oslo and subsequent agreements, reaffirm Israel's status as occupying power with all the responsibilities for the occupied population that are specified in the key documents of international humanitarian law), the Oslo agreements were designed in part to relieve Israel of many of the burdens of occupation-- as well as the need to police a restive population on a daily basis.”

War Peace Occupation Oslo Bds

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“As far as the Israelis were concerned, then, the limited implementation of the Oslo Accords amounted, essentially, to little more than a new form of occupation, enabling the perpetual deferral of the core issues of the conflict.”

Occupation Colonialism Palestine Apartheid Zionism Hamas Islamism Oslo

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

“The Palestinian leadership failed disastrously by not coming up with an alternative to the U.S.-Israeli position at Camp David and subsequent negotiations through the end of the Clinton presidency. It also failed by not explaining what was wrong with the terms being negotiated at Camp David, and how the whole process, from Oslo on, represented the subordination of international law to Israeli demands.”

War Peace Occupation International Law

Book:Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation

Source: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation