Twisting the Geneva Convention
In the bizarre world of the 'Palestinians,' if you sell me your house and I move in to it, the Israeli government is displacing you in violation of the Geneva Convention, at least if you're a 'Palestinian,' I am a Jew and we are in Jerusalem. UN agencies and EU officials in the occupied Palestinian territory are calling for the implementation of international humanitarian law to protect the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem from forced displacement.How can a transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller be 'forced' displacement? Suppose the person living in the sold apartment is a tenant and not the seller. To say that the tenant cannot be expelled is to read the Geneva Convention as vitiating all private property rights.
UN, Palestinian Authority and EU officials say East Jerusalem is occupied territory, requiring protection of the civilian population by international humanitarian law, a legal framework which prohibits population transfer into and out of the territory.
Israel says property transfers in East Jerusalem are private transactions governed by Israeli local municipal law. Today East Jerusalem, annexed by Israel in 1967, is governed by Israeli basic law.
And you can bet that the UN will back them up on it - at least so long as it's Israel that is benefiting.
What could go wrong?
Labels: forced displacement, Geneva Convention, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, Palestinians
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:17 AM
1 Comments:
Carl - Israel should tell the UN and the Eurotrash to butt out of Jerusalem - its none of their business. And if they interfere, expel them from the country.
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