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...Memorandum itself poses serious threats to the fundamental human rights of the Palestinians of the area, specifically the right to free speech and association, the right to a fair trial and the right not to be tortured. The Memorandum's disproportionate emphasis on the Palestinian Authority's "security obligations" to the state of Israel relegates Palestinian rights to an afterthought. In a place where Palestinian homes are still summarily demolished and their land casually expropriated if a household member is even suspected to be linked to an act of violence, the lack of an explicit mention of the human rights...
...Memorandum requires that the Palestinian side pursues a policy of "zero tolerance for terror and violence" and "take all measures necessary in order to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities," thereby subordinating the human rights of Palestinians in the name of Israel's arguably overstated security imperative. Indeed, Human Rights Watch has found that since the signing of the Memorandum two weeks ago, there have been widespread instances of torture of Palestinians during interrogations as well as unfair trials...
Like the Oslo Accords before it, the Wye Memorandum delays discussion of such pressing issues as the status of Jerusalem and the settlements. Last Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which...
While the Oslo Accords designated that 90 percent of the West Bank would eventually be under Palestinian control, this number has shrunk to 40 percent under the Wye Memorandum. How much more will it shrink before the final status is decided...
...also crucial to consider the conspicuous lack of accommodation of Palestinian refugees (64 percent of the total Palestinian population) or Palestinians living in Israel in both the Oslo Accords and the Wye Memorandum. Many Palestinians living in other places in the Arab world are still living as refugees in camps, deprived of citizenship and its benefits, often disproportionately impoverished. In Lebanon, where Palestinians have not been incorporated into the state because their large numbers are seen as a threat to the delicate balance of religious groups, Palestinians from the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, which holds 350,000 Palestinians, have...