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Elizabeth Jordan
MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business ·
4y

Israel has violated many international laws and has

consistently denied millions of Palestinians the
basic human rights to which they are entitled under
international law.

Here are just a few examples but the list is literally

endless.

Israel has violated international law and denied to

Palestinians the basic human rights to which they
are entitled:

It is illegal under international law to acquire land

by force. Israel annexed land occupied by force in
1948 and 1967 and is taking natural resources such
as water and minerals from that land for its own use
and economic benefit. (U.N. Charter, Article 2(4) &
51; Declaration on Principles of International Law
Concerning Friendly Relations, Principle 1).

It is illegal to colonize occupied land or transfer

non-indigenous population to that land.
Immediately following the 1967 War, Israel began
building Jewish-only civilian settlements on
Palestinian lands, eventually settling 650,000
settlers there, while also displacing hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians from their legally owned
lands. This is in violation of the Fourth Geneva
Conventions, Article 49(6).

Practicing ethnic cleansing is also illegal, but

Israel has taken Palestinian land and forced many
hundreds of thousands off their land while
preventing any of the displaced people the right to
return.

Right of return …Forbidding civilian populations

the right to return to their homes following the end
of armed conflict is in direct violation of
international law and UN resolutions. Geneva
Convention IV, Articles 45, 46 & 49 (1949), UN
resolutions 194 (III) (General Assembly; 1948) & 237
(Security Council; 1967).

Israel is in violation of the U.N. Convention on the

Rights of the Child (adopted 1990) through
detention, interrogation and imprisonment of
juveniles without due process and using them as
human shields isn’t legal either.

Practices include arrest without notifying parents of

where their child is taken, harsh and prolonged
interrogations without a lawyer present and in the
child’s non-native language, torture and abuse, and
solitary confinement. The most common offense for
which Palestinian children are arrested is stone
throwing.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-
east/17274-unicef-israel-violates-international-law-
in-treatment-of-palestinian-children

Israel has a formal system of legalized

discrimination against Palestinians which
technically fits the official UN definition of Apartheid
which is considered to be a crime against humanity.
The law violated is the International Convention
on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime
of Apartheid (1976).
http://www.hrw.org/report/2010/12/19/separate-and-
unequal/israels-discriminatory-treatment-
palestinians-occupied

Israel has violated the human rights of Palestinians

in significant and numerous ways, including arrest
and administrative detention without charges of
both adults and children as young as nine years of
age, torture, land confiscation, harassment at
checkpoints, disruption of free movement,
destruction of homes, uprooting trees, killing
livestock and implementing military law for
Palestinians while Israeli Jewish civilians enjoy
civilian protections. Laws violated include: U.N.
Charter, Article 1 (1945); Declaration on
Principles of International Law Concerning
Friendly Relations, Principle 5 (1970)

I copied and pasted some of these and I can easily

add 100 more. The idea that we share any values
with the Zionists currently running Israel is
laughable and regrettable. The short answer to your
question is no …as long as the United States and its
Congress is owned and controlled by the Israel
lobby and has vetom power then Israel will continue
to get away with their crimes against humanity
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Your idiotic question assumes Israel is violating any

humanitarian laws.

They haven't. They've gone above and beyond,

attempting to get civilians out of the way. Hamas
makes sure civilians are in the way, because it
makes for better victimization claims.

Israel has no obligation to provide water, fuel, food,

or electricity to an enemy they're at war with. In
fact, they're under no obligation to do so when they
aren't at war with them, but they do.

Hamas hides their weapon systems and outposts in

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The US and Israel never get punished by the UN

and by the Security Council, because the UN is both
useless and powerless, and the whole world knows
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obligations.

First let’s clarify exactly what ‘international law’ is.

There is no super international law making body
which passes laws to govern countries. Nor is there
an international police force to enforce it.
‘International law’ is really just the broad principle
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The USA does it whenever it feels like it, even if it

created the law in the first place.

The UK does it whenever it doesn't actually read

legally binding contracts before it signs them.

Both of these countries have the attitude that laws

are created for other people to follow and
unfortunately for the citizens of these countries
their current administrations have extended this
philosophy to exempt themselves from their own
countries law's.

With the USA in particular heading for dictatorship

unless it's population and Portions of the ruling
party act in force to prevent it.

Hope this helps.

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