Sources for The Veritas Papers
One of our main sources was actually the
original Veritas Handbook. We were surprised that it came in handy for this
project.
You might be
wondering about our photos, charts and graphics:
·
The cover photos
are either by Zoriah or Ahmad Mesleh. They have all been used with permission
from the photographers and they have been credited on their photos. We encourage
you to check them out.
·
Carlos Latuff
also kindly allowed us to use his comics—which feature in many of the papers.
·
Graphics: Some of
the graphics have been created by us, but unless otherwise stated, we don’t
claim rights over them
·
Charts: Most of
the charts presented (and even some of the maps) were generated by The Veritas
Team itself.
For sources of
each individual paper, please visit the page dedicated to each paper. Also, you
can view them below.
Paper 1:
Occupation From Scratch
Note: We have
only quoted sources for things that may be questioned for validity. Most of
what has been mentioned is historical fact that can be read in any history
book. We encourage you to do your own research on the various issues presented.
·
The Maps:
The maps used in this pamphlet were created by a member of our team using
photoshop. Maps from the UN were traced and scaled to create what you see, and
all maps are to scale and accurate. The following maps were used to create the
graphics you see:
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Historic
Palestine: This refers to Palestine as set out by the British
Mandate for Palestine, defining the region as Palestine.
·
Population
Statistics:
§ Justin
McCarthy’s “The Population of Palestine”
§ British
Census
§ United
Nations
§ Population
Demographics before 1948: General
Assembly, A/364, "UNSCOP Report to the General Assembly," September
3, 1947
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Land Statistics:
o
Map 4 Land
Statistics: According to the UN Armistice lines, Israel seized 77% of
Palestine. It is currently in control of about 60% of the remaining 22% , which
leads to it being in control of 90% of Historic Palestine.
§ Israel’s
control of historic Palestine: the figure 90% is derived from the fact that:
·
60%
of the West Bank is controlled by Israel (Area C) (including all borders,
this is a generous figure given that Israelis also have partial control of Area
B).
·
76.95% + 60%/21.71% = 89.98%
·
Israel (all areas according to the CIA
Factbook): 20 770 sq km.
·
West Bank: 5860 sq km
·
Gaza: 360 sq km
·
Total Area: 26 990 sq km
o
Israel: 76.95%
o
West Bank: 21.71%
o
Gaza: 1.33%
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Ethnic Cleansing:
o
Some people may
have a problem with the usage of this term, if so, read Paper 3, and Ilan
Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”
Paper 2: Myth vs.
Reality
·
Most of the
content of this paper is general fact or discussed in other papers. Some of
them have been summarized from Ben White’s FAQ section, which can be read in
The Veritas Handbook, page 127-137. Others have been summarized from Part II of
the Handbook.
However, here are
some more references:
·
Fact 1: Hamas
inception: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1654510.stm
o The
strength of the Israeli military being the strongest in the region is actually
affirmed by the US military aid, whose stated aim is to ensure that Israel has
a “qualitative military edge”. For more on this, see Paper 10b
·
Fact 2:
o Population
Demographics before 1948: General
Assembly, A/364, "UNSCOP Report to the General Assembly," September
3, 1947
o For more on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, see Paper
11
o For more on Israel’s “right” to exist, see Paper 4
·
Fact 3:
o Original
Declaration of Israeli Independence: This does not include define Israel as
a Jewish and democratic state. However, the idea of Israel being “Jewish
and democratic” was added much later to the Basic Law of the Knesset which can
be read here.
o Official Map: Israel doesn’t have “official
borders”, and is probably the only country in the world not to have declared
borders. However, on its Official Tourism website, Israel includes the Occupied
Palestinian Territories as a part of Israel. See
it for yourself.
·
Fact 4:
o Israeli War Crimes: These are but a few of the many
human rights reports regarding Israeli violations of human rights and war
crimes. We encourage you to peruse through them on your own.
§ “I Lost
Everything”: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property During Operation Cast
Lead, May 2010
·
Fact 5:
o See
Paper 6 on the use of the word “Apartheid”
·
Fact 6:
o
Definition of a Semite:
“a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including
the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs”
o
At great risk to themselves,
Palestinians hid and saved the lives of 435 Jews
during the gruesome Hebron massacres of 1929.
·
Fact 7:
o
For more on Israeli-Palestinian peace
processes, see Paper 3: A Real Partner for Peace?
Paper 3: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
· For detailed referencing, we highly suggest you read Ilan Pappe’s well-researched book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”
· Ilan Pappe’s article “The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” was also one of our sources. (Apologies to those with no access to JSTOR, visit your local library: they will probably have access)
· Text of Plan Dalet: begins page 24
· Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 13
· The quote of the al-Dawaymiya massacre, has been quoted by famous Israeli historian Benny Morris, the text has been referenced here.
· More about Palestinian refugees
Paper 4: Israel’s “Right to Exist”
·
Much of the inspiration for this piece
was found through If Americans Knew pamphlet on the same subject. It can be downloaded here.
·
Hamas has been willing to accept an extended
cease-fire truce with Israel on the 1967 borders, but has not conceded on
the Palestinian right to return.
·
Ben White has been quoted from his book
“Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide”, the FAQ section of which can be found
beginning on page 127 of The Veritas Handbook.
Paper 5: The West Bank &
Settlements
·
Israeli control over the West Bank- more
than 60% (Area C) according
to the UN in 2011. Israel also controls parts of Area B, but to be
generous, we didn’t include that in the percentage of Israeli control.
·
Number of settlers in the
West Bank (including East Jerusalem) has been taken from B’Tselem. The
exact number is 498,077 (however, this number
is from the end of 2010, and does not include the population increase of 2011,
it has certainly surpassed 500 000 this year 2012).
·
Other information has
been taken from:
o
West Bank & East Jerusalem
OCHA OPT Presentation (including movement, types of closures and facts on
the apartheid wall)
§ The map on the last page has been taken from this
presentation and all credit for this map goes to the United Nations OCHA oPT.
Paper 6: Apartheid
·
The Legal Definition of Apartheid,
according to
Article II of United Nations Resolution 3068:
“For the purpose of the present Convention, the term "the crime of
apartheid", which shall include similar policies and practices of racial
segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to
the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and
maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial
group of persons and systematically oppressing them:
a)
Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right
to life and liberty of person: i. By murder of members of a racial group or
groups; ii. By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of
serious bodily or mental harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity,
or by subjecting them to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment; iii. By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of
a racial group or groups;
b)
Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions
calculated to cause its or their physical destruction in whole or in part;
c)
Any legislative measures and other measures calculated to prevent a
racial group or groups from participation in the political, social, economic
and cultural life of the country and the deliberate creation of conditions
preventing the full development of such a group or groups, in particular by
denying to members of a racial group or groups basic human rights and freedoms,
including the right to work, the right to form recognized trade unions, the
right to education, the right to leave and to return to their country, the
right to a nationality, the right to freedom of movement and residence, the
right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to freedom of
peaceful assembly and association;
d)
Any measures, including legislative measures, designed to divide the
population along racial lines by the creation of separate reserves and ghettos
for the members of a racial group or groups, the prohibition of mixed marriages
among members of various racial groups, the expropriation of landed property
belonging to a racial group or groups or to members thereof;
e)
Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups,
in particular by submitting them to forced labour;
f)
Persecution of organizations and persons, by depriving them of
fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid.”
·
The various laws quoted have been taken
from the Israel Law Resource
Center
· One of our other sources was the works of Ben White. You can read an excerpt here.
· More on Apartheid Roads can be read in this report.
· One of our other sources was the works of Ben White. You can read an excerpt here.
· More on Apartheid Roads can be read in this report.
FURTHER
READING
·
Ben White has excellent books that are
easy to follow and extremely well-researched in regards to apartheid, both
within the Occupied Territories and within Israel’s 1967 borders. They are well
worth the cost!
o
Israeli
Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide, Pluto Press, 2009
o
Palestinians
in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination, and Democracy, Pluto Press, 2009
Paper 7: Breaking Gaza
The information used in this paper has
been taken from:
·
UN
OCHA OPT Map of the population density in Gaza
· Settlement population in the Gaza Strip before "disengagement"
· Settlement population in the Gaza Strip before "disengagement"
·
Settlement and Settler
Statistics (and its vast increase), BTselem
· Settler relocation to the West Bank
· Settler relocation to the West Bank
·
Statistics
of Operation Cast Lead, BTselem
·
UN OCHA OPT Gaza
Strip Fact Sheet
·
UN OCHA OPT Gaza Strip Presentation
·
Israel’s stated aims in the Gaza blockade
has been a mixture of the following (a) stopping rockets (b) pressuring Hamas
(c) an economic blockade. Its stated aim has been to weaken the Hamas
government, knowing that the civilian population would suffer. To read more on
this, see the PCHR
report on the Gaza blockade and Jonathan Cook’s piece on “The
Real Goal of Israel’s Gaza Blockade”
Human Rights reports on Operation Cast Lead and Israeli War Crimes:
Human Rights reports on Operation Cast Lead and Israeli War Crimes:
·
“I Lost
Everything”: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property During Operation Cast
Lead, May 2010
·
Humanitarian Situation in Gaza graphs:
o
The data for these graphs has been
taken from a report by the World Food Programme, titled Gaza:
Eased or Un-eased? Published June 2011
Paper 8: International Law
·
Text of the various laws and
resolutions mentioned:
o
General Assembly
§ General
Assembly Resolution
194
§ General
Assembly Resolution
3236
§ General
Assembly Resolution
10248
o
Security Council
§ Security
Council Resolution
242
§ Security
Council Resolution
446
§ Security
Council Resolution
1397
·
The table on the last page with all of the resolutions: you might
not believe us, but we researched this ourselves. The UN has all of their
resolutions online, and a very convenient search process. We used their search
engine to find all resolutions pertaining to “the question of Palestine” and
“Israel”, then manually went through them to make sure that they pertained to the
conflict. Some of these resolutions have been passed over and over (with new resolution numbers) since Israel has not
complied. Nevertheless, this is the number of resolutions that have been passed (including resolutions that have been passed more than once).
You can try doing it yourself if you want to make sure we’re telling the truth… but it will take you a few hours J
You can try doing it yourself if you want to make sure we’re telling the truth… but it will take you a few hours J
o
Here’s the search
engine for the voting records:
§ You
can limit the search to GA resolutions or SC resolutions
§ Add
the relevant resolutions to a “list” that you can later e-mail to yourself.
Paper 9: Resistance
·
To discuss Israeli weaponry, and how
this is not a balanced conflict, see the last chart of Paper 3: A Real Partner
for Peace?
·
For a longer discussion on Non-violent
vs. Violent Resistance, see the perspectives section of The Veritas Handbook,
from page 210
·
Norman Finkelstein: What
We Can Learn From Gandhi
·
Expanding of settlements and settler
population increase during and after Oslo Accords: see this BTselem report, page 17-19
·
Casualties of Operation Cast Lead from
BTselem can be viewed here
·
The murder of Mustafa Tamimi, article
on BTselem
·
For more on Israeli restrictions on
Palestinian non-violent protests, see the following reports from BTselem:
·
The Village of Bilin’s creative
protesting, including noteworthy imitation of Avatar.
Paper 10: A Real Partner for Peace?
Paper 11a: Canada’s Role:
· Text of the Oslo “Declaration of Principles”
· Camp David according to the PLO
· Casualties: The statistics and numbers of the casualties quoted from Operation Cast Lead have been added from the reports of B’Tselem and can be viewed here
· Israel’s control of historic Palestine: the figure 90% is derived from the fact that:
o 60% of the West Bank/Gaza is controlled by Israel, Area C (this is generous given that Israel also partially controls Area B)
o 76.95% + 60%/21.71% = 89.98%
o Israel (all areas according to the CIA Factbook): 20 770 sq km.
o West Bank: 5860 sq km
o Gaza: 360 sq km
o Total Area: 26 990 sq km
§ Israel: 76.95%
§ West Bank: 21.71%
§ Gaza: 1.33%
· Military Strength:
o Also see: Israeli Military Strength by Global Fire Power (the reference cited is the CIA, but we were unable to independently confirm the veracity of this source).
Paper 11a: Canada’s Role:
·
Canada’s explanation
of voting in 2008
· Harper comments on Israel's onslaught of Lebanon
· Peter Kent's comments on Israel's onslaught of Gaza
· George Galloway banned entry into Canada
· Funding cut to KAIROS and CAF and UNRWA
· Canada and Israel Relationship (according to the Canadian government)
· Harper comments on Israel's onslaught of Lebanon
· Peter Kent's comments on Israel's onslaught of Gaza
· George Galloway banned entry into Canada
· Funding cut to KAIROS and CAF and UNRWA
· Canada and Israel Relationship (according to the Canadian government)
·
CPCCA
findings: Final Report
·
Canada abstaining from
2004 resolution 10248 on the ICJ ruling
·
2009 Canada
vote UN HRC (Document A/64/53 E)
Further Information:
Paper 11b:
America: Israel’s Biggest Ally
·
American Aid to
Israel
o
U.S. Foreign Aid to
Israel, Jeremy Sharp, Congressional Research Services, September 2010
·
UN Security
Council resolution vetoes in favour of Israel by the US
·
AIPAC
o
Official website of AIPAC
·
USS Liberty
o
For more on the
USS Liberty, check out this excellent
collection of videos and documentaries, courtesy of ifamericansknew.org
·
Israeli espionage
in the US
o
For a collection
of resources, see ifamericansknew.org
Paper 12:
Boycotting Israel
·
Information on the
BDS campaign has been taken from the movement’s official website: http://www.bdsmovement.net
·
Success of the
boycott movement and Israel seeing the movement as a threat. See this
special on YNET
·
Divestment of:
·
Famous People: See
the addenda for details on famous people who have endorsed the boycott.
Addenda
Famous People and
Things That Support Palestine
·
150
American actors, directors etc. sign on to the boycott of illegal settlements.
·
Coldplay endorsing
the song and facebook removal.
·
Lush’s ethical campaign supporting
One World’s song “Freedom for Palestine”
·
Toronto
Boycott Declaration (what Viggo
Mortensen signed on to)
·
Lupe Fiasco
o
“Words
I never Said” – song that includes lyrics about Gaza getting bombed.
·
Noam Chomsky
o
Read his books or articles and you’ll get a
better impression of this vociferous critic of Israel who was recently barred
from entering Israel because of his political views.
·
Jesus
o
Some people may
have found this addition a little odd, but we believe it. Jesus, as a lover of
humanity and justice, without a doubt, supports the Palestinian plight for
justice.
·
Lowkey
o
Long Live
Palestine Official Video
(lyrics include references to the BDS campaign)
o
Support the
kaffiyeh factor! Buy your authentic
Palestinian kaffiyeh here.
Companies to
Boycott: Be a Responsible Buyer
Click on the
following links for more information into each company and/or their official
campaign:
·
Motorola*
o
Also see the
official Hang Up On Motorola
campaign
·
Max Brenner
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