The Occupation

Since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Under military occupation for the past 42 years, the Palestinians have no citizenship in any nation nor do they carry passports. The Israeli government has neither given Israeli citizenship to the occupied Palestinian population, fearing a majority Arab population in Israel, nor has it left the Palestinians to form their own state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza, citing ideological ties to the land.

The presence of 550,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and their unwillingness to become part of a future Palestinian state has made a two-state solution more unattainable with every passing year. NewPolicy.org believes that the time has come to end the occupation and bring about a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.