The Other Sides of the Story: An Education for Action Curriculum for a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine Appendixes - 1 AAPPPPEENNDDIIXX AA Maps for Introductory exercises (Looking at Maps exercise): Map 1: Palestinian Bureau of Statistics available at: www.palestinefacts.org/ pf_1991to_now_incitement.php Map 2: UN Department of Public Information Cartographic Section available at: http://domino.un.org/maps/m3243r4.gif Map 3: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs available at: http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0hbb0 or http://www.carta.co.il/index5.html American Friends Services Committee compiled a very useful and concise fact sheet that can be downloaded at: http://www.afsc.org/middleeast/peace/factsheet.pdf and handed out during introductory exercises. 2 3 4 5 AAPPENDIX BB The PBS timeline for the building a timeline exercise is available at: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/promises-timeline.pdf Other timeline resources to include as part of handout packet: Download AFSC’s timeline and factsheet as a PDF file at: http://www.afsc.org/middleeast/peace/factsheet.pdf If you don’t have PDF you can print the timeline at: http://www.afsc.org/middleeast/peace/timeline.htm The Guardian Middle East Timeline is available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,626719,00.html Maps: BCPR maps: http://www.bcpr.org/exhibit/mapshtml.html Maps: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/harpersmap.pdf (4 maps of area from 1946-2000 from a 2001 Harpers Magazine article by Seth Ackerman) Maps: http://ccmep.org/delegations/maps/palestine.html#2 (4 maps of area from 1946- 1999) Maps for the building a timeline exercise: 1. The First Jewish Colony in Palestine 1878. Source: http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/first_zionist_colony.htm 2. Major Arab Towns and Jewish Settlements in Palestine 1881-1914. Source: http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/Jewishsettlement-1914.htm 3. Turkish Territorial Divisions 1914. Source: http://www.mideastweb.org/turkpal.htm 4. Areas of Palestine under the Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916. Source: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gov46/pal-sykes-picot.gif 5. Palestine under the British Mandate 1923-1948 Source: http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/1923-1948-british-mandate.html 6. Palestine 1946: Distribution of population by district showing percentages of Jews and Palestinians http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story574.html 7. Jewish owned land in Palestine 1947 Source: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Maps/Story571.html 8. United Nation Partition Plan 1947 Source: http://www.palestinemonitor.org/maps/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_1947.htm 9. Land Ownership in Palestine and the UN Partition Plan 1947, Palestinian Villages Depopulated in 1948 and 1967, and Razed by Israel. 6 Source: http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/Landownership.html 10. Greater Israel after 1967. Source: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/maps/19481967/1967greater_israel_after_june.gif 11. Oslo II 1995. Source: http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/Oslo-2.html 12. Final Status Palestine 2000 (Barak Proposal) Source: http://www.bcpr.org/break.html 13. The West Bank after Oslo: Control and Separation ( June 2002) Jan de Jong Source: http://www.robertappleby.com/hebron/control.pdf 14. The Separation Wall 2003 Source: http://www.gush-shalom.org/thewall/images/map_big_eng.gif Thirteen dates for building a timeline exercise to be written on butcher paper: 1878, 1881, 1914, 1916, 1923, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1967, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 AAPPENDIX CC Maps for Occupation brainstorm and history exercises: BCPR maps: http://www.bcpr.org/exhibit/mapshtml.html Maps: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/promises/harpersmap.pdf (4 maps of area from 1946-2000 from a 2001 Harpers Magazine article by Seth Ackerman) Maps: http://ccmep.org/delegations/maps/palestine.html#2 (4 maps of area from 1946-1999) Note that the title of this map poster is less neutral than the one above. Key UN Resolutions on Palestine - Israel is in defiance of 69 UN Security Council resolutions. A brief explanation of some important resolutions. http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/fact_sheet_2.pdf 22 AAPPENDIX DD Occupation Lexicon for Human Impact of Occupation exercises: THE OCCUPATION LEXICON Oc·cu·pa·tion (ä-ky&-’pA-sh&n) a. Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces b. the military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it Absentee Property and Land Acquisition Law This Israeli law, adopted in March 1950, classifies people who were either a) residents of a neighboring Arab state or b) Palestinian citizens on 29 Nov. 1947 who left their home (even to take refuge within Palestine) as ‘absentees.’ This law allowed Israel to acquire the land and property of thousands of supposedly ‘absentee’ Palestinians. Similarly, the Land Acquisition Law of 1953 allowed the Israeli government to confiscate Palestinian land for military purposes or for Israeli settlements . Today the law states that land not in use for three continuous years is subject to Israeli confiscation. (Source: Shaml and Passia) • The amount of land expropriated through this law is estimated at 1,255,174 dunums (1 dunum = ¼ acre). • Since June 1967 the Israeli government has expropriated at least 5,839,000 dunums (73% of the West Bank & Gaza territory): 5,473,000 in the West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem) and 366,000 dunums in the Gaza Strip. • Today, on average 8,630 dunums of land are confiscated every month for the purpose of building settlements. Administrative Detention Imprisonment by Israel of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza without charge or trial for a period of up to six months, renewable; based on the ‘Law on Emergency Powers (Detention)’ adopted by the Israeli parliament in 1979. From September 2000 to February 2002, 1,000 Palestinians from inside the Green Line have been detained, and 1,850 (including more than 600 children) from Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip. (Source: Passia) Areas A, B, and C The 1995 Oslo II peace agreement divided the Palestinian territories, excluding East Jerusalem, into three zones. Area A, comprising disconnected districts, includes about 17 percent of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and is under the full security and civil control of the Palestinian Authority. Area B, 23 percent, is under Israeli security control, while the Palestinian Authority is responsible for some social and civil services. Area C, approximately 59 percent, is under full Israeli occupation. The division of these three areas was theoretically a first step in Israel’s full withdrawal from the West Bank (as required under UN Resolutions 242 and 338), but this withdrawal never took place. (Source: Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine) 23 Building Permits Palestinians must acquire these permits to obtain the right to build a home on Palestinian land. The cost of a building permit in East Jerusalem can amount to $20,000 and take up to five years to be approved. Permits in the West Bank are currently being issued at one-tenth the rate of population growth. Without a building permit a Palestinian can have their home demolished. Homes of Palestinians with permits have also been demolished to make way for the construction of new Israeli structures. (Source: Palestine Monitor) Bypass road between Gilo settlement and Bethlehem. Photo courtesy of Beverly Anderson. Bypass Roads Paved highways and roads built by Israel on confiscated Palestinian lands within the West Bank and Gaza to link Israeli settlements to Israel and other settlements. Israel controls these roads, which are buffered on each side by a 150-225 foot buffer zone in which no construction is allowed. Bypass roads also extend Israel’s de facto borders beyond the 1949 Green Line and around the entire Jerusalem area. Since 1967, Israel has built over 220 miles of highways and by- pass roads in the West Bank. Because Palestinians may not travel on these roads, they create barriers to Palestinian mobility, dividing communities and making it impossible for some farmers to reach their fields. (Source: Miftah and B’Tselem) Checkpoint A barrier or a small military station built by the Israeli Defense Forces or Border Police to limit the movement of Palestinians who lack necessary permits. Checkpoints are generally manned by a dozen Israeli soldiers, who search people’s belongings and check the license plates and IDs of pedestrians and drivers. Normally, Israeli citizens and foreigners can move through checkpoints without being stopped. Palestinians, including those with permits, experience extreme delays and are frequently humiliated at these 24 barriers. Palestinian farm produce, especially from Gaza, has spoiled at checkpoints due to delays of up to several days. (Source: Miftah and Palestine Monitor) Checkpoint Facts: • There are currently 120 Israeli checkpoints scattered throughout the Occupied Territories. These, along with Israeli roadblocks, have divided the West Bank into 300 separate clusters and the Gaza Strip into 3 separate clusters. • The health impact: Between 28 September 2000 and 21 November 2002, 73 deaths have been reported at checkpoints, mostly patients and pregnant women in labor who were denied passage and therefore unable to reach hospitals. During this time, 557 ambulances were also denied access to roads leading to hospitals. • The economic impact: Over 150,000 Palestinian workers have been unable to reach their jobs in the Occupied Territories due to Israeli closures since September 2000. A further 125,000 Palestinians are now unemployed because Israeli closures have blocked them from their jobs in Israel proper. Palestinian produce, especially from Gaza, often spoils at checkpoints due to delays of several days. (Source: International Checkpoint Watch) Gaza workers lined up at Erez Checkpoint between Gaza and Israel. Photo courtesy of David Guttenfelder/AP 2001. Closure, Siege, Blockade Terms used to describe official Israeli efforts to control the movement of Palestinians.