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

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Per capita gross national income (GNI) in West Bank Gaza was about US$ 5000 (PPP, current dollars),
compared with $32,830 in Israel. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD;
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics data indicate that per capita GNI in the West Bank is about 134% of
the national average, but only 51% in Gaza. http://www.pcbs.gov.ps/Portals/_Rainbow/Documents/enapcapitacon-1994-2014.htm
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See the history section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Palestinian_territories One may
question the weighting of Palestinian Authority corruption in comparison to labor market shutdowns, but
Wiki entries on controverted points involve fact-checking contests.
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World Bank. 2014. Seeing is Believing: Poverty in the Palestinian Territories. Washington, DC. ©
World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17836
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The number of Palestinians crossing the Green line to work in Israel has been much higher but Israel
now brings in laborers from Thailand and otherwise tried to reduce any dependence on Palestinian labor.
For the use of Thai guest workers in most of the Kibbutzim remaining:
http://forward.com/news/israel/206371/foreign-workers-now-teach-jews-how-to-farm-on-th/ For the
Chinese role and exploitation: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/world/middleeast/05workers.html?_r=0
For a critical overall assessment, see http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/20/the-strategy-behind-israel-smigrant-labor-policies/
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http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/palestinian-laborers-checkpoints?
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During the study team’s visit, Israel uprooted 150 olive trees from Cremisan Monastery –
some were 1,500 years old. This is an area where the wall cuts one of the remaining Christian communities
and areas apart, and will make it hard for the Christian farmers (and wine makers) to tend their lands, which
will likely be called, “abandoned,” and taken over by settlements on the other side of the wall.
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Fourth Geneva Convention
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Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank are moving ahead aggressively with economic
exploitation of the Dead Sea, along the shore in Area C of OPT.
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See details in Annex B. This pertains only to the parts of Area C not currently occupied by the
settlements. Orhan Niksic, Nur Nassere Eddin, and Masssimiliano Cali. Area C and the Future of the
Palestinian Economy. World Bank Studies. Washington, DC: World Bank. 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-0193-8
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ILO, The Situation of Workers of the Occupied Arab Territories. May 2015
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In Biblical times Gaza was one of the five Philistine city-states that remained unconquered by the
Israelites. According to the book of Judges, it was in Gaza that the blinded Samson pulled down the pillars
of the Temple of Dagon.
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The Christian presence in Gaza dates back to the fifth century, when Bishop Porphry was granted
permission from the Byzantine Empress to build a church in Gaza. The St. Porphyrius church belongs to
the Greek Orthodox community and is still in use today. Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has