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[The Magistrate]

38. It Is True, Sir

That the area in question has been occupied by one country or another since the armistice of '49. By the terms of the U.N. partition in '48, the area, and a good deal more, was indeed to comprise a state of Palestine.

What makes Israeli actions during its occupation dodgy at best is that an occupying power is not supposed to settle its own citizens on territory it occupies. I have seen people make arguments of military necessity for the settlements, and make arguments which present them as a matter of moral or religious right, but I have never seen any convincing argument made that they are lawful.