What a tangled web we weave...

What a perfectly ridiculous piece by Adis3r. The capacity for denial of Israelis on this issue is breathtaking.
Sharon thought there was an occupation. Netanyahu thinks there is an occupation. The whole world knows and acknowledges there is an occupation. Further everyone but a few ostriches knows and acknowledges that, while it may have been a legal occupation in the first instance, it has become an illegal occupation, on the grounds that the occupying power has made it clear that it has no intention of withdrawing, and that the occupying power has engaged in colonising the land in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions.
“ The occupying power shall not DEPORT ( i.e. transfer by force ) or OTHERWISE TRANSFER,( i.e. transfer by any other means , e.g. by inducement ) it’s civilian population “
Further, resolution 242 requires withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war. Now some say that the absence of the word “ the “ means it requires withdrawal from just some of the territories .
If you saw a sign in the park which said ....” dogs must be kept on leads near ponds in the park “ , would you think this meant just SOME of the ponds ?
Doubtless the drafters envisaged a degree of tweaking to everyones mutual advantage. But not the unilateral wholesale land theft that we are witnessing. Nor ,the endless intimidation and humiliation of the non Jewish population and the creation, in effect, of an apartheid province.
Nowhere in the territories does Israel behave more badly then in the Jordan Valley. It is here that the drip drip of ethnic cleansing is at its most intense and where the apartheid system is seen in its most grotesque and developed form.
Finally , Advis3r’s contention that “ territory may not be acquired by war “ means.... “ unless the war was a defensive war “ is so ludicrous it is not worth commenting on further.