I rely on the official position of the Conference of High Contracting Parties To the Fourth Geneva Convention held on July 15th, 1999:Precisely two nations did not participate: the US and Israel. I suspect Clinton was trolling for Gore-votes.No. You rely on The participating High Contracting Parties. That is not all the parties, and specifically excludes those who refused to participate in the conference and/or the position statement.
In the Mitchell Committee Report (which has been specifically endorsed as US policy by President Bush), the settlements are specifically stated to be a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. That means the only signatory nation that does not have that opinion is Israel.
-Eric
I do not know what the Mitchell report says, but it is not an official policy statement of the United States government. The Unites States does not regard settlements as "illegal".
Moreover, please address the patent double standard as to why it is that Palestine must be Judenrein while Israel must allow Palestinians to return? Certainly you are aware that Jews were evicted from the west bank and Jerusalem after 1948. Prior to 1948 Jews could settle anywhere on that land, and prior to the creation of Transjordan, Jews could settle there, too. Why now is all this land forbidden to Jewish settlement, and why is that OK with the UN and others apologists for Islamism?