Israel's Human Right's Violations

Today Israel is one of the most consistent violators of international human rights laws. On october 19, 2000 a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission met and approved a resolution that identified Israeli policies as “war crimes" and "flagrant violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity.” These same laws were defined and enacted after the Nuremburg trials that punished the Nazi leadership for crimes against humanity.

Since Israel's victory in 1967 most countries recognize the 1967 borders as the legitimate division of Israel and Palestine. In the years since, however, Israel has repeatedly moved into "'67" Palestine, demolishing homes and further displacing families that were displaced in 1967, killing and injuring civilians in the process.

Furthermore, as Israel continues to encroach onto Palestinian land they have not been "able" to push all Palestinians outside their borders. 20% or 1 in 5 people that live within Israeli borders are Palestinians. As Israel defines itself as a Jewish state these Palestinians are subjected to second class citizenship and are not protected by "jewish only" laws. The High Follow-up Committee, a "cautious" organization made up of local Palestinian leaders inside Israel, has called for drastic reforms to these domestic policies. They say that Israel is an "ethnocracy" who's laws deny citizens of the racial minority the ability "to be fully active in the decision-making process and (do not) guarantee our individual and collective civil, historic and national rights."

The basic rights for people of any nation need to be recognized, as well as the basic right of a separate nation to exist. Regardless of how the wars of 1967 and before had turned out, over four decades have passed without Israel's recognition.

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