a group that executes people for the crime of being queer
We have evangelical factions in this country, factions who have great influence in the halls of government, the same people who put on the National Prayer Breakfast every year, who are actively promoting such laws in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory”
When you drive people off their land and build "settlements" for your own ethnic group, you have no claim to any moral high ground.
When you beat your breast and ask plaintively, "Where are Jews supposed to go?" then come to Teaneck, New Jersey offering great opportunities for the right kind of Jewish person to resettle on the land where you just drove out families who have lived there, in some cases for centuries, and bulldozed olive trees that their great grandparents had planted, you have no claim to any moral high ground.
If tomorrow Hezbollah were to reduce to rubble every settlement in the West Bank, you would still have no claim to any moral high ground. You are illegally colonizing occupied territory in direct violation of international law
The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Israel may never have signed the Geneva Conventions, but the United States certainly did. Most of it we wrote. And yet where Israel is concerned, they appear to be meaningless.
And though you constantly whine that Israel is not an apartheid state, what do you call this?
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