Fourth Geneva Convention

And the magazine Plus 972 reported that over 150 new outposts since Israel's destruction of Gaza began, forcing more than 75 Palestinian communities to leave their homes.

Now these settlements are most probably illegal under the Fourth Geneva and the Hague Conventions.

You're not allowed to move civilians into occupied territories, nor may you collectively punish them.

So since the Hamas attacks of October 7th, 2023, settlers have allegedly killed over 30 civilians, according to the UN.

On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria waged a campaign against Israeli forces in the occupied Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.

Of all the Arab-Israeli wars, I would argue that this is the most misunderstood because, despite it being a clear instance of resistance to colonial occupation, Zionists have so thoroughly hijacked the narrative to paint the Israelis as the poor little victims of senseless Arab aggression while skirting past any inconvenient questions like why was Israel in possession of Egyptian and Syrian land in the first place? Were there any diplomatic off-ramps that Israel chose to ignore in the lead-up to the war that ultimately made it inevitable? Why was Israel building civilian settlements in the land it stole from its neighbors when that's a clear violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a war crime? The dishonesty surrounding this war has gotten so bad that you can't even do a simple YouTube search for videos about it without being smothered by Zionist mythology.

Imagine being attacked at the moment you are the most vulnerable.

73, holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, everybody is fasting, everybody is praying, and a surprise attack is launched on the state of Israel.

And you might be right.

But I did it for a reason, to leave absolutely no ambiguity that Israel waged an illegal war of aggression in 1967, and that it was in the context of that expansionist act that it seized and occupied the Golan Heights, which were stolen on the fifth day of the war when Syria was not threatening Israel and abiding by the UN-imposed ceasefire, as well as the Sinai Peninsula, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.

And if this wasn't bad enough, Israel also started building civilian settlements in these territories almost immediately, in direct violation of international law, including Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which bars an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into territories it occupies and understands said act of colonialism to be a war crime.

By driving home the point that these territories were conquered in an illegal war of aggression and then colonized in violation of international law, we're able to properly understand the political situation on the eve of the 1973 October War.

There's certainly a debate to be had about it, right? But it is this pattern that we've seen of, um, much like the genocide charge, that when the exact definitions don't really cover what is going on here, right? 'Cause the, the, uh...

They use Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which talks about the forcible transfer for of populations, which, uh, was referring to what happened in, in Europe in World War II.

That is not what is happening here.

This is not a country that Israel is moving into.

Um, but, uh, In a legal sense, I'll say this.

In a legal sense, settlements are the transfer of civilians into occupied territory, which is prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

It's actually considered a plain war crime.

In practice, yeah, they're often suburban communities, exurban communities.