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You may want to look up something called international law. Annexing land by force is illegal. Every bit of land Israel controls outside of the 48 borders is illegal. That is why many European and American organizations are starting to boycott the occupied lands.
JRockABM
So a random sniper that could have been from EITHER SIDE...(we have our own citizens shoot up our country all of the time) shoots one man, and then Israel has the right to just bomb training camps in another country, and sloppily so. They can't aim and make sure they are not killing innocent civilians? Then when they kill a child (baby girl) by accident, Israel does not apologize...Israel just threatens more? "If it's not quiet in Israel, it won't be quiet in Gaza strip". Wow...that is pure evil.
Why do we support these assholes?
whywhynot
reply to post by buster2010
You may want to look up something called international law. Annexing land by force is illegal. Every bit of land Israel controls outside of the 48 borders is illegal. That is why many European and American organizations are starting to boycott the occupied lands.
So Buster exactly when in time do you draw the line that an aggressor but defected enemy gets its land given back to it by the victor? Just interested, 1950? 1850? 1700? When? And, which international law are you referring to?
The Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV) of 1949 amplified the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 with respect to the question of the protection of civilians. GCIV also emphasised the United Nations Charter: the United Nations Charter (June 26, 1945) had prohibited war of aggression (See articles 1.1, 2.3, 2.4) and GCIV Article 47, the first paragraph in Section III: Occupied territories, restricted the effects of annexation on the rights of persons within those territories:
Protected persons who are in occupied territory shall not be deprived, in any case or in any manner whatsoever, of the benefits of the present Convention by any change introduced, as the result of the occupation of a territory, into the institutions or government of the said territory, nor by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power, nor by any annexation by the latter of the whole or part of the occupied territory. Article 49 prohibits mass movement of people out of or into occupied territory:
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. ... The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
ignorant_ape
reply to post by buster2010
Bethlehem ??? the location and demographics of Bethlehem are utterly irrelevant to this -
I will give you one guess to figure out why [ I am feeling generous ]
Hoosierdaddy71
reply to post by buster2010
Jews and Muslims are like oil and water. They will never get along peacefully. Take something that happened this week and Annalise it, the discussion always ends up bringing up events that happened before Jesus. Saying one side is right or wrong about something that happened today just feels crazy to me.
Part III. Status and Treatment of Protected Persons[edit]
Section I. Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories[edit]
Article 32. A protected person/s shall not have anything done to them of such a character as to cause physical suffering or extermination ... the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment' While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture (see discussion on the Torture page), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.
whywhynot
reply to post by buster2010
Don't think that you were "doing my research for me"! You made a claim, I asked you specifically what you were referencing, period.
There are violations on all sides of this issue according to the GC. Just one example is:
Part III. Status and Treatment of Protected Persons[edit]
Section I. Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories[edit]
Article 32. A protected person/s shall not have anything done to them of such a character as to cause physical suffering or extermination ... the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment' While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture (see discussion on the Torture page), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture.
Both sides do this, until there is enforcement of the GC terms and conditions on all sides I cannot blame Israel from protecting themselves by keeping a property boundary between the belligerents.
You cannot cherry pick the application of provisions that you like and ignore the other ones.
Ploutonas
And here is a matter for consideration. Have you ever seen jewish turn against China?
whywhynot
reply to post by buster2010
You are also ignoring the point that I make, BOTH sides are violating the GC and no one is enforcing it. Since no one is enforcing it on either side then Israel is protecting themselves the only way that is reasonably available to them, controlling a buffer zone.
How is Palestine breaking that law they are not stealing land and the buffer zone is just nonsense.
DJW001
reply to post by buster2010
How is Palestine breaking that law they are not stealing land and the buffer zone is just nonsense.
Not only is "Palestine" (there are two of them now) not enforcing what agreements they have, the "government" in the Gaza strip is actively encouraging its citizens to kill Israelis. How would the US react if Canada refused to acknowledge that the United States exists, and smuggled arms and explosives across the border in an attempt to kill its neighbors?
buster2010
DJW001
reply to post by buster2010
How is Palestine breaking that law they are not stealing land and the buffer zone is just nonsense.
Not only is "Palestine" (there are two of them now) not enforcing what agreements they have, the "government" in the Gaza strip is actively encouraging its citizens to kill Israelis. How would the US react if Canada refused to acknowledge that the United States exists, and smuggled arms and explosives across the border in an attempt to kill its neighbors?
Palestine has recognized Israel as a state in every peace agreement they have signed with Israel so that lame argument is getting old. And since when did Americans take offense to a people defending themselves like the Palestinians are doing.