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Contents 1 Dugard on OPT 2 Source Suspected by Netsnipe to be Fake 3 Email from John Dugard 4 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Dugard on OPT

In January 2006, a report by John Dugard, a Special Rapporteur for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, stated that "the three major settlement blocs - Gush Etzion, Ma’ale Adummim and Ariel - will effectively divide Palestinian territory into cantons or Bantustans." (from Question of the Violation of Human Rights in the Occupied Arab Territories, Including Palestine - Report of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, John Dugard, on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967)

"There are both similarities and differences between apartheid South Africa and the situation in the Palestine Occupied Territory (OPT). But one similarity is clear. Israel's conduct in the OPT poses the same kind of challenge to the credibility of international human rights that apartheid did in the 1970's and 1980's. There are gross, egregious and systematic violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the OPT, committed not by undisciplined and uncontrolled militias but by one of the most disciplined and sophisticated armies in the modern world, directed by a stable and disciplined government." (from [1])

"The Wall greatly impedes freedom of movement. Palestinians who live on the West Bank side of the Wall are denied access to their lands on the other side of the Wall, that is, in the “closed zone”, without permits. Permits are frequently withheld, especially in respect of young men who should farm the land but are seen to be security threats. Moreover, gates granting access to the closed zone are arbitrarily administered and are frequently unopened at scheduled times. This permit system may be likened to the "pass laws" of apartheid, but unlike the apartheid system – which was administered in a brutal but uniform manner – the Wall regime is characterised by its arbitrariness and lack of consistency." (from [2])

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deodar (talk • contribs) 20:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Source Suspected by Netsnipe to be Fake

I've removed the link to http://www.pchrgaza.org/Library/Dugard.pdf because I believe it to be a fake.

Discussion continued/moved to Talk:Allegations_of_Israeli_apartheid#Source_Suspected_by_Netsnipe_to_be_Fake

[edit] Email from John Dugard

Subject: RE: Wikipedia: Authenticity of a statement you may have made
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:22:30 +0200
Message-ID: <5DC38EFDD2DE9145A6A28B619939E5D30100AAB4@IGRSXC001C.isrv.ad.leidenuniv.nl>
From: "Dugard, C.J.R." <c.j.r.dugard(+)law.leidenuniv.nl>
To: <info-en-q(+)wikimedia.org>

Dear Mr Lau
Many thanks for your email.
First two corrections:
1) I also have an honorary degree from ther University of Pretoria.\
2) I have NOT written International Law on Abortion!
3) International Law: A South Africa perspective is now in its third
edition(2006).

As to the subject of your query. Yes, I have written in some report that
"Gaza is a prison." I cannot recall having said that "all its
inhabitants are prisoners of Israel".
But I suppose it is a logical inference.

Best regards
John Dugard

Posted by  Netsnipe  ►  18:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Netsnipe. Strangely, Amazon is confident that John Dugard did write "International Law on Abortion" - see [3]. Maybe it is Amazon's mistake -- the author isn't actually John Dugard -- or there is another John Dugard who just happens to also specialize in International Law and South Africa. --Deodar 19:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 17:40, 27 August 2007 (UTC)