SherriMunnerlyn
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Is this screed your way of saying the Arab/Nazi connection isn't real or just your way of justifying it?
The settlements are not war crimes. Do you even know what war crimes are?
I found that UN Report addressing the illegal settlements! it is actually a two page document from OCHA entitled The Humanitarian Impact Of Isreali Settlement Policies Update December 2012
Also read that in March we will see a Report by The UN Human Rights Council Addressing the illegal settlements!
The OCHA Report, dated 12/19/2012, Findings: "1. Settlements are illegal under international law as they violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of the occupying power's civilian population into occupied territory. This has been confirmed by the International Court of Justice, the High Contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the United Nations Security Council."
Peace Not Walls » Blog Archive » New OCHA report on illegal Israeli settlement impact on Palestinians - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Substantial violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention are war crimes, we have documented in the OCHA Report the substantial History of Israel's illegal settlement construction. We are not speaking of one isolated settlement or a few settlements being constructed, we are speaking of Israel, since 1967, officially approving 150 illegal settlements in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Israeli government allowing some 100 illegal outposts to be set up.
Sherri
I won't even bother to note that the OCHA is a UN agency but I will note that neither OCHA nor your source, the Peace Not Walls blog of the Lutheran Church, makes mention of war crimes.
So who are the "we" to whom you refer, Sherri? Are you affiliated with the Lutherans? OCHA?
Some other organization? Multiple personalities?
SayIt,
It is all spelled out in The Fourth Geneva Convention and its Protocols, you just apply law to facts.
Article 49 says moving settlers in to the OPT is unlawful.
Article 85 of Protocol 1 to the Fourth Geneva Convention says grave breaches of The Fourth Geneva Convention are war crimes, and it specifically says moving settlers into occupied territories are grave breaches of The Fourth Geneva Convention
"In addition to the grave breaches defined in the preceding paragraphs and in the Conventions, the following shall be regarded as grave breaches of this Protocol, when committed willfully and in violation of the Conventions or the Protocol:
(a) the transfer by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory, in violation of Article 49 of the Forth Convention."
The willful construction of the settlements by Israel are war crimes under intl law!
http://www.pchrgaza.org/Intifada/Settlements.conv.htm
Sherri
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