On the eve of the first preliminary peace talks in the US, Israel’s cabinet has approved a Basic Law requiring that any peace deal that involves withdrawing from any Israeli territory would include a referendum.
Israel has never used referendums before, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the plan primarily as a way to placate Jewish Home, a coalition partner opposed to any peace treaty on general principle.
Technically speaking, the law wouldn’t require a referendum for Israel to withdraw from occupied territory, including the West Bank. This is because Israel has long argued that their own law doesn’t apply to the occupied territories.
Netanyahu has insisted that any peace deal he reaches with the Palestinians would have him throwing in a “couple of square meters” of Jerusalem just so the overall deal can be forced into the referendum.
85-4[…]the following shall be regarded as grave breaches of this Protocol, when committed willfully and in violation of the Conventions or the Protocol:
85-4 (a) the transfer by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory, in violation of Article 49 of the Forth Convention. […]
85-5 Without prejudice to the application of the Conventions and of this Protocol, grave breaches of these instruments shall be regarded as war crimes. (re-post)
Well, thank goodness it's insinuating its-own-civilian-population into its criminal behavior.
Just think of the feel and smell of the well oiled manila rope, that freshly waxed trap door, …
and god`s face you will never seeThat my brother
I think it obvious that Netanyahoo and the rest of his leadership group consider themselves exempt from the Geneva Conventions – unless they're using them in their own defense, of course.
This "referendum" business makes me laugh. Netanyahu thinks that he is being clever. I can imagine how this will go over in any international court, – "your Honor, I can't give back anything that I stole; the rest of the gang have taken a vote and the majority have decided to keep everything!"
It will not work a charade that America is setting The PALESTINIANS up for the failure of these "Talks" leave it up to the EU they the yanks are showing the Zionist how to rid themselves of the Palestinians as they did to 43million native americans and the land they took from the Mexicans.Who can forget the Monroe doctrine.