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Originally posted by Mael
why do you think that they are supposed to be free from isreal rule and settlements? what makes the isreali settlements illegal? please, for the fourth time, tell me why they're illegal.
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Ok.
The Geneva Convention explicitly forbids the occupying power from transfering its population into the land it occupies. Furthermore, the UN and pretty much every other int'l legal entity has applied this to Israel's settlements.
As the belligerent occupier, Israel is required to defer to the pre-belligerency political identity of the occupied territory. Belligerent occupation connotes only a temporary, provisional circumstance and implicit duty to withdraw once hostilites have been brought to an end. Contemporary legal notion reinforces the idea that war no longer provides a foundation to grab land. This right to territory as a part of conquest no longer exists the way you're thinking of it. The whole freakin point of belligerent occupation is to fascilitate a peaceful settlement. Do you think illegal Israeli settlements are doing that?
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