Abstract
As Ilan Pelec warned in the Preface of his book, Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza, Legacy and Politics (p.12), the question of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip remains a controversial one, and a balanced analysis is hard to conduct. The two camps, Pro-Israeli and Pro-Palestinian, are strongly opposed to each other, defending their viewpoints without concessions. The author acknowledges that "it is well known that objectivity in the social sciences is elusive and never completely achievable.? To avoid controversy, Pelec even explains that among all the nominations used to refer to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, he's choosing to refer to them as "the territories?, which is, according to him, the expression with the fewer connotations.
