tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post2584634996533107345..comments2024-03-29T06:25:35.899-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: SettlementsGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-84709008591317668872016-09-13T19:33:02.483-07:002016-09-13T19:33:02.483-07:00Stranger, can you read? The content of article 49...Stranger, can you read? The content of article 49 refers to the forced removal of residents from these areas, except for the last line, which forbids the forced removal from the offending country of populations to occupied territories. It has absolutely nothing to say about the settlers, who are voluntarily taking up residence in the West Bank.<br /><br />And the real transfer of populations, in which virtually all Jews were forcibly expelled from Arab countries, took place before 1949. It should be noted that this was nothing but an example of ethnic cleansing, without a shred of pretense that the Jews, whose ancestors had lived in those countries for generations, posed any threat to their native countries.<br /><br />Once again, a deliberate twisting of reality to make Israel, i.e. Jews, the bad guys, from a person who can immediately be classified as a Jew hater.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-1945019659158532422016-09-13T18:57:20.673-07:002016-09-13T18:57:20.673-07:00"As an addendum, I might add that the constan..."As an addendum, I might add that the constant attacks on Israel for having "displaced" the alleged Palestinian population utterly ignore the many examples from only a couple of years previous, such as the resettlement of Germans from the Sudetenland and Poland, in which hopelessly revanchist and irredentist populations were resettled, with the full approval of the world's governments." - Green Eagle<br /><br />(1) The expulsion of Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia was a humanitarian disaster, as these articles from the <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/brutal-peace-postwar-expulsions-germans/" rel="nofollow">Nation</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rm-douglas/expulsion-germans-forced-migration_b_1625437.html" rel="nofollow">Huffington Post</a> indicate. Of the 12 million ethnic Germans who were removed, at least 500,000 died. Matthew White's <i>Atrocities</i> gives an estimate of 2 million dead.<br /><br />(2) The resettlement following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India" rel="nofollow">Partition of India</a> was another great humanitarian disaster. Wikipedia mentions estimates of 14 million refugees, with between 200,000 and 2 million people killed in the process.<br /><br />I can't think of a forced population transfer which <i>didn't</i> result in high death tolls relative to the number of people displaced, which is a good reason to oppose them.<br /><br />(3) For these reasons, and the decision that the Nazis' forced movement of population was declared a war crime at Nuremberg, the Fourth Geneva Convention, passed in 1949, includes a ban on the removal of people from occupied territories.<br /><br />I quote <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Geneva_Convention/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Article_49" rel="nofollow">Article 49</a> in whole:<br /><br /><b>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.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.<br /><br />The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated.<br /><br />The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place.<br /><br />The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.<br /><br />The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.</b><br /><br />In short, since the law changed in 1949, anything that happened before then (such as your Sudetenland example or the Partition of India) cannot be used to justify a violation of Article 49 after that time.Wayfaring Strangernoreply@blogger.com