{"id":471,"date":"2010-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2010\/12\/18\/israelwest-bank-separate-and-unequal\/"},"modified":"2010-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:00:00","slug":"israelwest-bank-separate-and-unequal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2010\/12\/18\/israelwest-bank-separate-and-unequal\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\/West Bank: Separate and Unequal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against  Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while  providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlements, Human Rights Watch  said in a report released today. The report identifies discriminatory  practices that have no legitimate security or other justification and  calls on Israel, in addition to abiding by its international legal  obligation to withdraw the settlements, to end these violations of  Palestinians&#8217; rights. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/node\/95061\">The 166-page report,  &#8220;Separate and Unequal: Israel&#8217;s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians  in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,&#8221;<\/a> shows that Israel  operates a two-tier system for the two populations of the West Bank in  the large areas where it exercises exclusive control. The report is  based on case studies comparing Israel&#8217;s starkly different treatment of  settlements and next-door Palestinian communities in these areas. It  calls on the US and EU member states and on businesses with operations  in settlement areas to avoid supporting Israeli settlement policies that  are inherently discriminatory and that violate international law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their  race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity,  water, schools, and access to roads, while nearby Jewish settlers enjoy  all of these state-provided benefits,&#8221; said Carroll Bogert, deputy  executive director for external relations at Human Rights Watch. &#8220;While  Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in  a time warp &#8211; not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even  pushed off their lands and out of their homes.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">By making their communities virtually uninhabitable, Israel&#8217;s  discriminatory policies have frequently had the effect of forcing  residents to leave their communities, Human Rights Watch said. According  to a June 2009 survey of households in &#8220;Area C,&#8221; the area covering 60  percent of the West Bank that is under exclusive Israeli control, and  East Jerusalem, which Israel unilaterally annexed, some 31 percent of  Palestinian residents had been displaced since 2000.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Human Rights Watch looked at both Area C and East Jerusalem and found  that the two-tier system in effect in both areas provides generous  financial benefits and infrastructure support to promote life in Jewish  settlements, while deliberately withholding basic services, punishing  growth, and imposing harsh conditions on Palestinian communities. Such  different treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin  that is not narrowly tailored to legitimate goals violates the  fundamental prohibition against discrimination under human rights law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Israeli policies control many aspects of the day-to-day life of  Palestinians who live in Area C and East Jerusalem. Among the  discriminatory burdens imposed on Palestinians that Human Rights Watch  found are Israeli practices of expropriating land from Palestinians for  settlements and their supporting infrastructure; blocking Palestinians  from using roads and reaching agricultural lands; denying access to  electricity and water; denying building permits for houses, schools,  clinics, and infrastructure; and demolishing homes and even entire  communities. Such measures have limited the expansion of Palestinian  villages and imposed severe hardships on residents, including leaving  them with limited access to medical care.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">By contrast, Israeli policies promote and encourage Jewish  settlements to expand in Area C and East Jerusalem, often using land and  other resources that are effectively unavailable to Palestinians. The  Israeli government grants numerous incentives to settlers, including  funding for housing, education, and infrastructure, such as special  roads. Those benefits have led to the consistent and rapid expansion of  settlements, the population of which grew from approximately 241,500  inhabitants in 1992 to roughly 490,000 in 2010, including East  Jerusalem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;While Israeli policy makers are fighting for the \u2018natural growth&#8217; of  their illegal settlements, they&#8217;re strangling historic Palestinian  communities, forbidding families from expanding their homes, and making  life unlivable,&#8221; Bogert said. &#8220;The policies surrounding Israel&#8217;s  settlements are an affront to equality and a major obstacle to ordinary  Palestinian life.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">One of the Palestinian communities that Human Rights Watch examines  in the report is Jubbet al-Dhib, a village with 160 residents southeast  of Bethlehem that dates from 1929. The village is often accessible only  by foot because its only connection to a paved road is a rough, 1.5  kilometer-long dirt track. Children from Jubbet al-Dhib must walk to  schools in other villages several kilometers away because their own  village has no school.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Jubbet al-Dhib lacks electricity despite numerous requests to be  connected to the Israeli electric grid, which Israeli authorities have  rejected. Israeli authorities also rejected an international  donor-funded project that would have provided the village with  solar-powered street lights. Any meat or milk in the village must be  eaten the same day due to lack of refrigeration; residents often resort  to eating preserved foods instead. Villagers depend for light on  candles, kerosene lanterns, and, when they can afford to fill it with  gasoline, a small generator.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Approximately 350 meters away is the Jewish community of Sde Bar,  founded in 1997. It has a paved access road for its population of around  50 people and is connected to Jerusalem by a new, multi-million-dollar  highway &#8211; the &#8220;Lieberman Road&#8221; &#8211; which bypasses Palestinian cities,  towns, and villages, like Jubbet al-Dhib. Sde Bar operates a high  school, but Jubbet al-Dhib students may not attend. Settlements are  designated closed military areas that may be entered only with special  military permits. Residents of Sde Bar have the amenities common to any  Israeli town, such as refrigerators and electric lights, which Jubbet  al-Dhib villagers can see from their homes at night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Palestinian children in areas under Israeli control are studying by  candlelight while watching the electric lights in settlers&#8217; windows,&#8221;  Bogert said. &#8220;Pretending that depriving Palestinian kids of access to  schools or water or electricity has something to do with security is  absurd.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In most cases where Israel has acknowledged differential treatment of  Palestinians &#8211; such as when it bars them from &#8220;settler-only&#8221; roads &#8211; it  has asserted that the measures are necessary to protect Jewish settlers  and other Israelis who are subject to periodic attacks by Palestinian  armed groups. But no security or other legitimate rationale can explain  the vast scale of differential treatment of Palestinians, such as permit  denials that effectively prohibit Palestinians from building or  repairing homes, schools, roads, and water tanks, Human Rights Watch  said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Moreover, in addressing security concerns, Israel often acts as if  all Palestinians pose a security threat by virtue of their race,  ethnicity, and national origin, rather than narrowly tailoring  restrictions to specific individuals who are shown to pose a threat. The  legal prohibition of discrimination prohibits such broad-brush  restrictions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;The world long ago discarded spurious arguments to justify treating  one group of people differently from another merely because of their  race, ethnicity, or national origin,&#8221; Bogert said. &#8220;It&#8217;s time for Israel  to end its policies of discrimination and stop treating Palestinians  under its control markedly worse than Jews in the same area.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Israel&#8217;s highest court has ruled that certain measures against  Palestinian citizens of Israel were illegal because they were  discriminatory. However, Human Rights Watch is not aware that the courts  have adjudicated whether any Israeli practice in the West Bank  discriminated against Palestinians, although petitioners have raised  such claims in a number of cases.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Human Rights Watch said that the blatantly discriminatory practices  make it an urgent matter for donor countries to avoid contributing to or  being complicit in the violations of international law caused by the  settlements. These countries should take meaningful steps encourage the  Israeli government to abide by its obligations, Human Rights Watch said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Human Rights Watch reiterated its recommendation that the United  States, which provides US$2.75 billion in aid to Israel annually, should  suspend financing to Israel in an amount equivalent to the costs of  Israel&#8217;s spending in support of settlements, which a 2003 study  estimated at $1.4 billion. Similarly, based on numerous reports that US  tax-exempt organizations provide substantial contributions to support  settlements, the report urges the US to verify that such tax-exemptions  are consistent with US obligations to ensure respect for international  law, including prohibitions against discrimination.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Human Rights Watch called on the EU, a primary export market for  settlement products, to ensure that it does not provide incentives for  settlement exports through preferential tariff treatment, and to  identify cases where discrimination against Palestinians has contributed  to the production of goods. For example, the report documents how crops  exported from settlements using water from Israeli-drilled wells have  dried up nearby Palestinian wells, limiting Palestinians&#8217; ability to  cultivate their own lands and even their access to drinking water.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The report also describes cases in which businesses have contributed  to or benefited directly from discrimination against Palestinians, for  example through commercial activities on lands that were unlawfully  confiscated from Palestinians without compensation for the benefit of  settlers. These businesses also benefit from Israeli governmental  subsidies, tax abatements, and discriminatory access to infrastructure,  permits, and export channels. Human Rights Watch called on businesses to  investigate, prevent and mitigate such violations, including ending any  operations that cannot be separated from discriminatory Israeli  practices.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;Discrimination of the kind practiced daily in the West Bank should  be beyond the pale for anyone,&#8221; Bogert said. &#8220;Foreign governments and  businesses at risk of being tainted by Israel&#8217;s unlawful practices  should identify and end policies and actions that support them.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlements, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. 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