Are settlements in Yehuda, Shomron and Azza illegal according to the Geneva convention?
First of all, it is only illegal if we are occupying stolen land. We are merely reclaiming that land that was *stolen* from us from 1948-1967. But let us just suppose for an instance that we are occupiers. The Geneva Convention, Article 49, paragraph 6 states: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies. • There is absolutely no mention that setting up settlements is illegal. There is only a mention of population movement. • In the book “International Law: A Treatise, Vol II, Disputes, War and Neutrality”, by L. Oppenheim (1952), page 452, he writes “The occupying power must not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory occupied by him – a prohibition intended to cover cases of the occupant bringing in its nationals for the purpose of displacing the population of the occupied territory”. The key word here is displacing. No one is being displaced. • In the paper “Palestinian Self Determinati
