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Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace

occupied set of cantons. The Israeli government has conquered the West Bank, Gaza, and
East Jerusalem and labels any resistance as “terrorism,” even though international law
gives an occupied people the right to armed struggle to resist the occupier.xvii The path of
the wall, the pattern of checkpoints and the matrix of military control divide and
demoralize Palestinians, trapping them in unsustainable situations.
At the same time, decisions of the Palestinian Authority that discourage new
leadership and its passivity in the face of Oslo violations weaken its capacity to negotiate on
behalf others in