US+Aid+to+Israel.

"US Aid to Israel." //Palestine Monitor//. 31 Oct. 2007. Web. 14 Sep. 2010. .

International Court of Justice Ruling, July 9, 2004  - Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. December 10th, 1948 International Court of Justice advisory opinion, July 9, 2004  14. “Israel is the sole country in the world to have legalized the use of torture B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights"  15. “Since the beginning of the Occupation in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been arrested by Israel. Almost 95% of them have been subjected to some form of torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”   16. “Israel has no more loyal friend than the United States. We couldn’t have done it without her”    Yitzhak Rabin   17. “ Israel is considered America’s closest non-NATO ally in the Middle East, a region that is geopolitically crucial to the US.”  18. “The close relationship between the two states is reflected in the volume of aid Israel receives from the US. Since World War II Israel has been the largest overall recipient of US aid: from 1949-2006 Israel received more than $156 billion of direct US aid.”
 * 1)  "Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, are illegal and an obstacle to peace and to economic and social development [... and] have been established in breach of international law."
 * 1)  "There are currently 121 Israeli colonies, often referred to as "settlements", and approximately 102 Israeli outposts built illegally on Palestinian land occupied militarily by Israel since 1967 (West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights). All of these settlements and outposts are illegal under international law and have been condemned by numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions. Israeli outposts are considered illegal under Israeli law."
 * 2)  "Settlements are the cause of great inequalities in ac-cess to natural resources between Israelis and Palestin-ians. Many settlements are built on prime agricultural land confiscated from Palestinians, or over key water resources such as the Western Aquifer basin, springs and wells."
 * 3)  "Moreover, Israel continues to speak of removing only “unauthorized” outposts (i.e., those estab-lished in violation of domestic Israeli law) and have identified only 26 which fit this description. Neither the Road Map, nor the successive UN resolu-tions, contain or respect Israel’s domestic distinction between legal and illegal settlements or outposts."
 * 4)  "All bypass roads have a 50–75m buffer zone on each side, where no construction is allowed. These buffer zones have led to a great loss of agricultural and privately-owned Palestinian land."
 * 5)  "By September 2008 there were 699 closure obstacles in the West Bank– approximately 130 of these have been added after the Annapolis Conference began in November 2007."
 * 6)  "630 of the obstacles have been identified: trenches (3%), partial checkpoints (3%), earth walls (7%), road-blocks (11%), road barriers (12%), checkpoints (12%), road gates (16%) and earth mounds (36%)."
 * 7)  "74 % of the main routes in the West Bank are controlled by checkpoints or blocked entirely."
 * 8)  "In the period from April to September 2008 the weekly average of flying (or random) checkpoints was 89. Due to their unpredictable nature and more intensive search procedures, the flying checkpoints are usually even more problematic for the Palestinians than the regular ones."
 * 9) <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; display: block; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"> "According to the World Health Organization, at least 69 women have given birth at check-points the the outbreak of the Second Intifada in September of 2000 to 2006. These women endure labor in some of the most unsanitary and inhumane conditions possible."
 * 10) <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; display: block; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"> “The right to freedom of movement provides that people are entitled to move freely within the borders of the state, to leave any country and to return to their country.”
 * 1) <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; display: block; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"> “It would be better to drown these prisoners, in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world.” Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking on the release of Palestinian prisoners.
 * 2) <span style="0in: 0in 0in 0pt; display: block; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in;"> “The construction of the wall being built by Israel... in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem... [is] contrary to international law. Israel is under obligation... to dismantle forthwith the structure... [and] make reparation for all damage caused...”