IS Israel really illegally occupied by the Zionist?

The fact is that Israel is occupying the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. It has occupied them since it attacked Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six Day War of 1967. The 4.5 million people who live in these three territories do not have the rights of people who are citizens of countries, like you or me.

Every aspect of their lives is controlled by the Israeli authorities, but they receive nothing in return. Essentially, two groups of people live under the Israeli government (Israeli citizens, and Palestinians in the occupied territories) but each group has its own separate set of laws. Inside Israel itself, there is a free country and a liberal democratic society.

In the occupied territories, the human rights abuses are a nightmare. And I don't just mean your political rights; even your electricity and running water, and what roads you can use, are different if you're a Palestinian. Every country, government, and international organization in the world considers the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem occupied territories.

The United Nations, including its legal branch the World Court; the 28 countries of the European Union; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; and even the United States government. The Golan Heights was also conquered by Israel from Syria in the Six Day War. It is also considered occupied territory to this day.

But there is a slight difference. Israel offered full Israeli citizenship and rights to the Arabs who lived there, and many accepted. So life in the Golan Heights is much better.

In 2005, Israel pulled its soldiers out of the Gaza Strip. Israelis argue this means that the Gaza Strip is no longer occupied territory. But Israel still keeps 100 per cent control over Gaza's airspace and territorial waters, and its land border with Israel.

No goods or products, and no human being, can enter or leave Gaza without Israeli permission. Anyone who needs to travel, whether a musician, an athlete, a college student or a sick child, needs to apply. A fisherman who goes more than 3 km from the coastline is turned back by the Israeli navy.

For this reason, the Gaza Strip is still, obviously occupied. Israel left the room, but it locked the door and kept the key. Golan Heights is occupied territory: http://www.un.int/syria/golan.htm Spokesman for the leader of the United Nations (the Secretary-General) explaining that Gaza is still considered occupied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYEjDR6Xpqo Amnesty International on the occupied territories: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1677.pdf A legal document from the World Court declaring that it was illegal for Israel to build a wall in occupied East Jerusalem separating the Jewish-Israeli areas from the Palestinian areas.

It practically starts off "... Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem." http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/6B939C57EA9EF32785256F33006B9F8D This is a very long legal document from the United Nations explaining exactly how Israel's occupation breaks which international laws. People who support Israel don't like to call these lands occupied, because occupied is just a negative word to them.

They prefer to call them "disputed" territories, but that's just another way of saying occupied. It's a positive euphemism. Other times they don't see these lands as occupied or disputed at all, but as a part of Israel, won through conquest.

But, we don't live in the age of empires anymore, and international law does not allow you to keep land that you conquered in a war. Regardless of whether or not I support Israel, these are facts. And if anybody tells you different, you know they're not just trying to inform you.

Also, I admire your need to find the truth. You should not let your race or religion determine your views. By birth I'm an Egyptian Muslim, but by development I'm an atheist and realize my religion needs to die.

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Yes - and the International Court of Justice in the Hague states that they are in clear terms. This is a pertinent paragraph from the French version of the original document... La construction du mur dans le Territoire palestinien occupé constitue également un acte illicite d'annexion au titre des résolutions 478 (1980) et 497 (1981) du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, lequel déclare dans ces textes que les mesures d'Israël visant à annexer Jérusalem-Est et le Golan sont nulles et non avenues et ne doivent pas être reconnues par les Etats. You can probably understand what it says but here is a Google Translate translation for you... The construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is also an act of illegal annexation under resolutions 478 (1980) and 497 (1981) United Nations Security Council, which states in these texts that Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan are null and void and shall not be recognized by other nations.

The International Court of Justice refers to the Palestinian Territories as "occupied" and states that the annexation of East Jerusalem and the Goaln are in contravention of two UN resolutions. The US Department of State does not recognize Israel's claim to occupied Palestinian territory. 7 FAM 1360 APPENDIX D BIRTH IN ISRAEL, JERUSALEM, AND ISRAELI-OCCUPIED AREAS "a.

Background. As a result of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the Government of Israel currently occupies and administers the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. U.S. policy recognizes that the Golan Heights is Syrian territory" http://www.state.gov/documents/organizat...

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