Class 22: The refugee and settlement issues

I. Settlements

@-2 Foundation for Middle East Peace, Report on Israeli Settlement (2005) - update from Haaretz Aug 8, 2008, stats up through 2006

Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem, Recent Israeli Settlement Activity, read one of the case studies, including maps - here is a recent map indicating 4 new "illegal" settlements.

Smith, 6th ed., pp. 415, 418, 504, 511 maps of Israeli settlements, and p. 528 checkpoints and barriers.

Foundation for Peace in the Middle East, Map Collection: 2008 West Bank partitions, Jerusalem 2008.

FMEP Summary of settlements founding dates and settler totals 1999-2006 (excluding E Jerusalem)

II. Refugees ("Right of Return"?)

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) - Survey Research Unit: PSR Polls among Palestinian Refugees, (Jan-June 2003), released 18 July 2003. On peace process, see latest poll of Israelis and Palestinians: 28 March 2008.

Palestine Refugee ResearchNet (McGill University), Refugees and Final Status: Key Issues

Arzt, pp. 35, 60-61, 83-123 (PCL reserve)

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Nov. 3, 2008

Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
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