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Why Does Israel Say It Stays in the West Bank?
The Levy Report of 2012, a 1979 Knesset statement and Oslo II Article XXXI, quoted as Israeli bodies published them.
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One statute, judgment, order or agreement, read clause by clause and quoted from the text.
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Does the Palestinian Authority Run Its Own Areas?
What the Interim Agreement signed on 28 September 1995 assigns in Areas A, B and C, and what Israel’s State Comptroller recorded in 2016 and 2021.
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What Does Israel’s Ceasefire Decision Say About Its Forces in Gaza?
Decision 3396, adopted 9 October 2025, sets two IDF deployment stages by annexed map and carries no disarmament paragraph in its published text.
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What Did Israel’s Cabinet Decide About the Gaza Ceasefire?
Decision 3396, adopted 9 October 2025: a ceasefire on adoption, 48 hostages in 72 hours, 250 prisoners and 1,722 Gaza detainees.
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Does Israeli Law Say Self-Determination Is Exclusive to Jews?
Clause 1(c) of Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Basic Law, the 2021 judgment upholding it, and the 2000 Ka’adan ruling on land allocation.
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How Much Water Did the Oslo II Agreement Allocate?
Article 40 of the 1995 Interim Agreement made 28.6 mcm a year available and estimated future West Bank needs at 70 to 80 mcm.
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How Does Israel Collect and Transfer Palestinian Tax Revenue?
The 1994 Paris Protocol requires import-tax revenue cleared within six working days. The 3% deduction is in the 1995 Supplement, not the Protocol.
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The Ottoman Land Code’s Three-Year Rule, and What It Does Not Say
Article 68 of the 1858 Ottoman Land Code makes land left fallow three years subject to the right of Tapu. It does not say the land reverts to the state.
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What Does Israel’s Nation-State Law Actually Say?
The 2018 Basic Law has eleven clauses and no equality clause. What each says, and what the Supreme Court held in HCJ 5555/18 on 8 July 2021.