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At a campaign stop in Iowa yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he believes that the West Bank was justly acquired by Israel during war, so that today, “all the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they’re not Palestinians.”
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legitimate, he said, because the area was “ground that was gained during war” after “an aggressive attack on the part of Jordan and other countries on Israel”:
...Santorum did not clarify whether he believes everyone who lives in the West Bank should be accorded all the rights and responsibilities of Israeli citizenship.
blogs.reuters.com...
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
he is a total puppet who doesn't even know what he's talking about.
Originally posted by MeesterB
You can paint him with a zionist brush, but he does seem to have a good argument.
Should ground gained in war time be given back?
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states in paragraph 1,
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. and states in paragraph 6, The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Originally posted by buster2010
Originally posted by MeesterB
You can paint him with a zionist brush, but he does seem to have a good argument.
Should ground gained in war time be given back?
International laws says it is illegal to acquire land by force.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states in paragraph 1,
Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive. and states in paragraph 6, The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
All land they have stolen since 48 should be given back to the Palestinians.
Originally posted by real_one
He looked like he was going to get lose his temper and get physical with that young man. I would have given him a peace of my mind but would surely would have been escorted out very loudly, perhaps in Jail. I can't stand these people who are loyal to other nations before their own.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
reply to post by MeesterB
I think his argument is based on ignorance.
You do know that a lot of the West Bank is illegally occupied right?
He doesn't seem to know it either so don't feel bad.
Israel may not have been a nation recognized by the United Nations till 1948 but the Isreaelites have been there for over 2,000 years dating all the way back to the division of Isaac and Ishmael.
The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian-Arab village of roughly 600 people.[1] The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine.
en.wikipedia.org...[2]