Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: Legacy and Politics. (book reviews)

David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

In this slim volume of 129 text pages, Ilan Peleg of Lafayette College takes on the daunting task of evaluating the status of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza between 1967 and the early 1990s. The subject has long been controversial. Various parties do not agree on what legal regime or regimes apply to the area. As was inevitable, since human rights behavior is one source of governmental legitimacy, Israel's human rights record in the territories has been used widely as part of the broader power struggle in the region. And there ...

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