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The government’s “security” argument is the same one it used in 1967.
For fifty-nine years we have been told the occupation is temporary, and for fifty-nine years it has grown. Every checkpoint, every settlement, every demolition order is justified by the same word: security. It is time to say plainly what that word now protects.
Read more →What “temporary” has meant for fifty-nine years.
The military government in the occupied territories was set up as a temporary measure in June 1967. It is older now than most of the people living under it.
Read more →The settlements are the occupation made permanent.
A settlement is not a neighbourhood that happened to be built. It is a decision, signed and funded, to make the occupation impossible to undo.
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