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More dangerously, it would waste time in pretences of peace while Israel continues erecting facts on the ground that makes this very peace we seek a physical improbability. The intention and clear goal of the negotiations is to achieve peace by ending the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian Territory that began in 1967 and establishing the independent State of Palestine to live side by side with Israel in peace and security.

"The Bangkok authorities who organize such acts of aggression, therefore, bear full responsibility for them whatever may be their inventions in whrch they do not shrink from any improbability in an effort to reverse the roles Of the parties."

The claim that his father had been killed by the military or the regime was considered to be far-fetched and improbable. The Migration Board further noted that the visit of two policemen in plain clothes during his absence in May 2005 was not credible. (...) The facts of his case made it improbable that he was of any interest to the authorities in Algeria.

The fact that the Board may have granted asylum in another case, unrelated to the complainant’s, could in itself lead to a revised assessment of the complainant’s case. 4.5 Concerning the complainant’s alleged political activities in Iran for a monarchist organization, the State party submitted that the Refugee Appeals Board conducted a detailed assessment of this submission, and concluded that it seemed improbable, based on information on the level of activity of that organization in Iran from UNHCR and other sources. (...) The Board also adds that the decision of 24 January 2006 was made by the entire Board in writing rather than the Chairman alone, thus ensuring that the original members of the Board carefully assessed the significance of the medical report in question. 7.2 As to the relationship between the complainant’s alleged political activities and torture, the Board submits that although torture may contribute to evidence of political persecution, the conditions for asylum are not necessarily satisfied in all cases where an asylum-seeker has been subjected to torture.1 In its original decision on 27 September 2004, the Board had found that the complainant’s claims with respect to his activities for a monarchist organization seemed improbable based on information on the level of activity of that organization in Iran from the UNHCR as well as other sources, the stereotypical statement regarding the political purposes of that organization and the fact that the complainant seemed to be politically ill-informed.