settlements, see Segal and Weizman, A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture, Verso, 2003.
22. Settlements in the West Bank have more than doubled since the Oslo Declaration of Principles was signed in 1993. Although specifics regarding settlements were withheld from the Declarations, relegating discussion of them to the so-called final status issues, along with Jerusalem and military locations, it was nonetheless understood and expected, based on the general withdrawal that was included in the Declarations, that no new settlements would be built.
23. Levi Eshkol, third prime minister of Israel from 1963-69. Ehud Barak, tenth prime minister of Israel from 1999-2001. A span of 38 out of the then (2001) 53 years since Israel's declaration of statehood-approximately 72 percent of its existence.
24. This essay was written prior to Ariel Sharon's election as Prime Minister in February 2001. During his term in office he presided over huge settlement growth, as well as the withdrawal of settlers from Gaza. See the discussion of the unilateral disengagement plan in Chapter 3.
25. The Oslo Declaration of Principles divided occupied Palestine into three dispersed zones. Area A is that area under full Palestinian Authority control, Area B is under Palestinian "civil" control, but Israeli "security" control, and Area C is under full Israeli control. Area C under full Israeli control comprises almost 60 percent of occupied Palestine. The city of Hebron has special zones. HI is under full Israeli control because of the settlements in the area, and the borders of H2 are under Israeli control. The situation in Hebron is one of the worst in the West Bank.
26. Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem from 1965-93 who presided over the Israelization of much of Jerusalem in the wake of the 1967 war and subsequently throughout his term of office.
27. For an excellent discussion of "the planners' ...aim" see Segal and Weizman, A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture, Verso, 2003.
28. Originally published in Ma'ariv.
29. Though this essay is specifically about the destruction of Palestinian homes for not having the proper permits, home demolition is carried out for a number of reasons including to build the "Separation Wall," as a form of collective punishment, and to build new "Israeli only" roads.
30. Though many checkpoints are stationary, some move from place to place, often springing up unexpectedly.
31. The "closed military area" is a tactic the Israeli military sometimes uses that imposes full martial law over the area in question, giving the soldiers on the spot great leeway in their actions.
32. One dunam equals 0.247 acres, 370 dunams equals 91.429 acres, and 950 dunams equals 234.750 acres, a significant amount of land to be appropriated from a densely populated area in the roughly 5,860 square miles of the West Bank, particularly under the circumstances Avnery describes.
33. In a 2004 non-binding opinion the International Court of Justice found the wall illegal.
34. Rachel Corrie, a young US member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was fatally crushed standing in front of a home about to be demolished