by Eli E. Hertz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the evacuation of Jews from a Hebron home based on erroneous legal advice. Netanyahu was told that:
"According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, an occupier moving population into occupied land constitutes a war crime."Haaretz, May 13, 2012
It seems that Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein based the above conclusion on the inappropriate use of the Fourth Geneva Convention which states in Article 49, paragraph 6: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Israel, the only free and democratic state in the Middle East, never used "forcible transfers" or "deportation" of its own population into "occupied territories."
Article 49 seems thus simply not applicable.
Eli E. Hertz
Source: http://www.mythsandfacts.org/
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