Gaza's 8,000 Jewish settlers illegally reside in occupied Palestinian territory, controlling 20percentt of the Strip's land.
They prefer the present situation: the West Bank occupied or tightly controlled by Israel, with an increasing number of Jewish settlers.
It behaved as if it were the government of a state, with departments of finance, transport, education, health, etc; but, in reality, everything in the Palestinian occupied territories was controlled by Israel.
Languishing in destitution, which the government has been inclined to maintain as stark evidence of the urgency of return and of re-establishing control over occupied territories, they have become hostages to the goal of return.
"It also created facts on the ground that proved more than anything else that the Netanyahu government did not mean to go for a two-state solution" and instead tried to strengthen Israeli control over occupied territory.
They became an integral part of the SS and police bureaucracy in Nazi Germany and were key participants in the conduct of mass murder and atrocities in the occupied areas under German control during World War II.
Al-Hout left the executive over what he, like many, regarded as the disaster of the Arafat-orchestrated PLO recognition of Israel under the Oslo accords, and the movement's effective return to the occupied territories under the control and aegis of Israel.
But Svoboda activists have been criticised for bullying tactics in establishing control over occupied buildings, and critics also highlight ties to the neo-Nazi C14/Sich group.Most of the organised units of the Maidan Samooborona (self-defence) forces, though, are under the leadership of Andriy Parubiy, a nationalist-leaning MP from Arseniy Yatseniuk's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
Using their Israeli citizenship as a source of power, these groups apply different strategies of dissent while challenging the discriminating practices of control in occupied Palestinian territories.
