• library_napper@monyet.cc
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      1 year ago

      If you say that, then the settlements aren’t a war crime.

      Occupation is legal under international law. Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal because it’s a war crime to move a civilian population into a militarily occupied area.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I don’t mean to say that they should be given a legal fig leaf. I mean that they are participating in violent suppression simply by being settlers on land that the IDF scrapes Palestinians out of.