Anti-Israel ‘Double Standard’ at the UN: Why No Condemnation of Other Occupations and Settlements? [View all]
...It is Article 49(6) of the Geneva Conventions that is most often cited in international condemnation of Israeli policies. That article states that an “Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
Yet while Israel has been reminded in condemnatory U.N. resolutions of its obligations under the Geneva Conventions about 500 times since 1967, Kontorovich found, in all other seven cases that had occurred a total of just two times.
In fact, the study found that no U.N. body has ever invoked Article 49(6) specifically in relation to any of the seven other cases.
And in all seven of those cases, settlement activity has taken place – often on a larger scale than in the Israel/Palestinian case, and involving “far-reaching demographic and economic consequences for the occupied population,” the study found.
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