Israel is establishing a “buffer zone” (Jabal al-Sheikh, also known as Mount Hermon) on a “buffer zone” (the Golan Heights) after already expelling some 800,000 Palestinians with the establishment of the expansionist country in 1948.
Israeli leaders claim this “buffer zone” – more accurately termed occupation – will be “temporary.”
Experience with “temporary” occupation in the West Bank makes clear that may well not be the case. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem highlighted Israel’s misuse of the term “temporary” 10 years ago in a position paper documenting “a 47-year-long temporary occupation.”
Today, it’s a 57-year-long “temporary” occupation, a point largely reiterated this summer in an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice. ….more
