The ABC of the OPT : a legal lexicon of the Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian territory /

From A for "Assigned Residence" to Z for "Zone," this legal lexicon dissects the legal infrastructure of Israeli control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), defined here as all the territories seized in the 1967 war, notably the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem as well as the West Bank. The authors are distinguished international law scholar-practitioners who base their conveniently cross-referenced analysis on the body of law of belligerent occupation codified in the 1907 Hague Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Times of War, and its Additional Protocol I of 1977. The supposedly lawless occupied territories are in fact "brimming with legalism" that Israel's High Court of Justice has attempted to legitimate, in part since 2002 by selectively applying this body of international law. Despite Israel's "disengagement" from Gaza in 2005, Q for "Quality of Life" demonstrates the law's tragic relevance to this "sui generis" zone. This reference book is an indispensable guide to the Palestinian-Israeli problem and deserves a place in any public library as well as in research institutions. Summing Up: Essential. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Clement Moore Henry, emeritus, retired from the University of Texas at Austin