Chapter Ten: 

West Bank Rights and Barrier

“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.”

–Albert Camus, French philosopher,

author, and journalist who was

born in Algeria. Camus won the

Nobel Prize in Literature.

On two occasions the Israeli Government has been instructed by the Supreme Court of Israel, in 2004 and 2005, to alter the route of the barrier to ensure that negative impacts on Palestinians would be minimized and proportional. More recently, in 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that Palestinians have rights to their property in the West Bank and that Israel cannot constitutionally or legally build or approve settleme...

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