Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has promised to chart a new, unprecedented path for Israel’s 39 year occupation of territories captured in June 1967. In the aftermath of the costly Palestinian rebellion against Israeli rule in the early 2000s, Olmert has pledged to modify a policy defined by conquest, expansion, and denial of the national rights of Palestinians.

Israel’s military incursion into Gaza following the abduction of an Israeli soldier and weeks of spiraling conflict proves again that violence is built into the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate.