tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37178657.post7956581493983000463..comments2024-02-27T11:48:20.327+02:00Comments on Writing The Wrongs: ARE SETTLEMENTS ILLEGAL?GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028217914514268498noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37178657.post-78391870611779516902009-06-14T00:02:47.415+03:002009-06-14T00:02:47.415+03:00I left this off at a site here claiming the illega...I left this off at a site <a href="http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/06/12/israeli-settlements-illegal-and-fatal-to-peace/comment-page-1/#comment-2082" rel="nofollow">here</a> claiming the illegality of Jewish residency in Judea and Samaria:<br /><br /><br />You note that "The point of Article 49 is to protect the rights of the pre-existing population of an occupied territory".<br /><br />You surely must be aware that:<br />a) Jews lived in Judea and Samaria for centuries and were ethnically cleansed from those areas under the British Mandate when successive riots (1920; 1921; 1929; 1936-39) and a full-scale aggressive war (1947-48) was launched by local Arabs. Cities such as Nables, Gaza, Jenin, Hebron and villages such as Kfar Etzion, Revadim, Atarot, Neveh Yaakov and Bet Haaravah as well as the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem were emptied out of their Jewish residents.<br />b) In other words, basically, the Geneva Convention you quote supports the Jewish claim that Jews belong in Judea and Samaria and Gaza for two reasons.<br />c) the first is the international community's decisions in San Remo in 1920 and the Mandate decision of the Supreme Council of the League of Nations in 1922-23 to reconstitute the Jewish national home<br />d) the second is that in acting against these decisions as well as rejecting the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, the Arabs of the Palestine Mandate surrendered any claims to seek protection under the 1949 Geneva Convention.<br />e) moreover, i) since 1949 Geneva is between "High Contracting Parties", and there was no "Palestine" due to the decision of the Arabs not to establish it but to wage war, they have no protection; and ii) no "transfer" of population exists in this case as the residents went by themselves.YMedadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14333122797414935958noreply@blogger.com