From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Andrew Meyer was published by The Huffington Post on August 12, 2016.
The year before the formalization of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the state of Israel declared ‘independence’ within the former British Mandate of Palestine. This declaration, in a measure that sits at the heart of the current unrest within historic Palestine, dictates the state’s borders only by referring to Eretz Israel – the ‘Land of Israel’ or ‘Greater Israel’ – with no mention of the current existence or future possibility of a Palestinian state. Israel would go on to sign the Conventions in 1951. The irony of an infant state signing on to these treaties, when the state itself was established upon the ruins of hundreds of Palestinian villages and the ethnic cleansing of at least 750,000 Palestinians, is thick. Today, the state of Israel continues its systematic and routine violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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