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Originally posted by RoyalT
Reading this thread, a lot of you are saying that the settlements are illegal. But how can they be illegal, if they are not illegal according to international law?
According to the Genova convention, an occupied zone is a zone that was occupied from another state, and since the Palestinian state never existed, its rules don't apply there.
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http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1677.pdf
Page 8 through 9 under the international humanitarian law section.
For those being too lazy to read the Court concludes as follow :
In view of the foregoing, the Court considers that the Fourth Geneva Convention is applicable in the Palestinian territories which before the 1967 conflict lay to the east of the Green Line and which, during that conflict, were occupied by Israel, there being no need for any enquiry into the precise prior status of those territories.
You need to read if you want to know why, but the Geneva Convention is applicable.
Obama has given Israel billions of dollars of support throughout his presidency, and Israel would have continued to receive economic and military support regardless of whoever became president. Acknowledging humans rights abuses is apparently backstabbing 
So the destruction of Israel is something that would please you? People really don't care about being openly anti-Semitic, do they 
