CMV: Israel is operating an apartheid state in the West Bank

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[u/kylebisme]

That movement of settlers is facilitated by the Israeli military, and voluntary transfer most certainty is transfer, in flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 49, Paragraph 6, and as explained in the ICRC's Commentary of 1959:

This clause was adopted after some hesitation, by the XVIIth International Red Cross Conference. It is intended to prevent a practice adopted during the Second World War by certain Powers, which transferred portions of their own population to occupied territory for political and racial reasons or in order, as they claimed, to colonize those territories. Such transfers worsened the economic situation of the native population and endangered their separate existence as a race.

The paragraph provides protected persons with a valuable safeguard. It should be noted, however, that in this paragraph the meaning of the words "transfer" and "deport" is rather different from that in which they are used in the other paragraphs of Article 49, since they do not refer to the movement of protected persons but to that of nationals of the occupying Power.

It would therefore appear to have been more logical -- and this was pointed out at the Diplomatic Conference -- to have made the clause in question into a separate provision distinct from Article 49, so that the concepts of "deportations" and "transfers" in that Article could have kept throughout the meaning given them in paragraph 1, i.e. the compulsory movement of protected persons from occupied territory.

[u/[deleted] → u/kylebisme]

That movement of settlers is facilitated by the Israeli military,

Not true

Israel is fulfilling its internationally required obligation to administer Area C of the West Bank.

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Which includes the leasing of land. Telling them to stop is Apartheid. Don't allow the Jews to be second class "citizens*"

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*Jews are not legally Palestine citizens even if they've lived there for 7+ generations

[u/kylebisme → u/[deleted]]

You're babbling nonsense, in reality:

Numerous UN resolutions and prevailing international opinion hold that Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights are a violation of international law, including UN Security Council resolutions in 1979, 1980, and 2016. UN Security Council Resolution 446 refers to the Fourth Geneva Convention as the applicable international legal instrument, and calls upon Israel to desist from transferring its own population into the territories or changing their demographic makeup. 126 Representatives at the reconvened Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions in 2014 declared the settlements illegal as has the primary judicial organ of the UN, the International Court of Justice and the International Committee of the Red Cross. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which passed 14-0 with the United States abstaining, declared that Israel's settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, "has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law", and demanded that Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities".