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Originally Posted by Pointman
So, you no longer claim theft, right? Those families never owned homes, nor land. Neither Jordan legal system, nor Israel legal system gave them ownership. Your whole argument is that under "reasonable" legal system they should have been given the ownership, but they were not. It's a far cry from "theft", let alone war crime, don't you think?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention
This will explain why it is a breech. Read it. Particularly this bit:
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Articles 47–78 impose substantial obligations on occupying powers. As well as numerous provisions for the general welfare of the inhabitants of an occupied territory, an occupier may not forcibly deport protected persons, or deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into occupied territory
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Settlements, and taking a home that a Palestinian family has lived in for 70 some odd years and giving it to an Israeli family through the court system is, even to the Skootenbeeten's of this world, a blatant obvious breech. Beyond that, Isreal has been condemned for this practice by pretty much every authority and expert on Earth(non Israeli). So it's got pretty good general support as FACT. I hope that clears this up, and we can move on.