Law Library

This library provides legal resources and reference material concerning the basic Human rights of the Palestinian people. Articles of interest and links to relevant websites will be added to keep our readers informed on this subject:

THE AL-AQSA INTIFADA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. 30 November 2000
A legal review of the Palestinian conflict based on International law, UN resolutions and the Geneva convention. Francis A. Boyle, Illinois State University, Professor of International Law & legal advisor to the Palestinian delegation peace negotiating team.

WHERE WILL THEY GO? December 2000
American Bar Association Journal Report by Jeffrey Ghannam.
Article details Palestinian refugees right of return to their homelands under the international law. Just days before hostilities erupted in the Middle East, an ABA Journal reporter accompanied three Palestinian refugees across the Israeli border to visit their ancestral village. They seek a right to return home. Refugees say international law is on their side, but it may be ignored at the bargaining table. Without resolution, the refugee camps will likely remain flash points for unrest.
Jeffrey Ghannam is a legal affairs writer for the ABA Journal.

REPORT ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE. December 12, 2000
By Luisa Morgantini - Member of the Italian Delegation to Palestine reporting on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. This brave delegation went to Palestine for the non violent interposition in defense of the right of the Palestinian people to freely live in justice and peace in a state of their own without suffering the aggression of the Israeli military occupation.
JERUSALEM FACTS. December 17, 1998
Call for restitution and protection of Palestinian rights in Jerusalem. Facts and figures about the eviction of Palestinians and expropriation of their land and property in Jerusalem since 1948. Presented at a press conference of the Lobby for Human Rights in Jerusalem.
U.N. REPORT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. November 28, 2000.
By Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
This is the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. Rarely does one encounter a public official, let alone an international civil servant, who brings humanity and genuine concern to the exercise of his/her duties. The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson, in her report to the UN General Assembly on human rights conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories does just that.
B'TSELEM REPORT, ILLUSIONS OF RESTRAINT. December 06, 2000
A report on the Human Rights Violations During the Events in the Occupied Territories, 29 Sept - 2 Dec 2000. Based on detailed observations by members of B'Tselem.
THE FRAUD OF AMERICAN "PEACEMAKING." January 04, 2001
Clinton is just the latest U.S. leader whose one-sided support for Israel has doomed the region to bloodshed. By Michael Adams - former Middle East correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. United Kingdom.

ISRAEL’S CO-CONSPIRATORS’
Letter in the Austin American Statesman, 12/13/00

The Dec. 4 letter, "It isn't just Israel," requires a response. As an aging American who volunteered for Army service in World War II to do my part to bring down Adolf Hitler for his murderous efforts against Christians, Jews, Gypsies and others who opposed his racial policies, I think I can recognize racism and aggression.

Hitler's aggression lasted hardly 13 years. One would have to be in deep denial to dismiss Zionist aggression against the Arab people, mainly the Palestinians, from 1948 to the present. Israel's murderous aggression has gone on for more than 50 years.

No, ``it isn't just Israel.'' It is the U.S. Congresses and administrations, corrupted since Truman's time by pro-Zionist bribes or threats to do Israel's bidding, which maintain this criminal enterprise. We U.S. taxpayers, unwittingly in most cases, foot the bill for our ``special commitment'' to Israel and become co-conspirators in the violations of human rights of the Palestinian people.

WILLIAM V. KELLY
Austin, Texas