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Various international organizations still can’t contain their reflexive moonbattery whenever the topic of Israel comes up. This time it’s the Red Cross displaying its ignorance.

The international Red Cross has privately accused Israel of reshaping Jerusalem to further its own interests, in violation of international law.

A leaked ICRC report says Israeli policy has far-reaching humanitarian consequences for Palestinians living under occupation in East Jerusalem.

Israel captured East Jerusalem in 1967, and the territory is regarded as occupied land under international law.

But Israel rejects this, and says the report’s premise is, therefore, wrong.

The report says Israel shows “general disregard” for its obligations under international humanitarian law and the law of military occupation in particular.

Violations that change the status of East Jerusalem include the West Bank barrier, an outer ring of Jewish settlements around the city and roads to connect Israeli districts and settlements, the report says.

This is pure revisionist nonsense. Nothing about the situation warrants the label “occupation”. Let’s take a simple history lesson. A gang of Arab nations decides to invade Israel in 1967. Israel spanks them and captures land. That land becomes their own. It is not occupied, it is part of Israel. If the arabs wanted to keep their land, they should have thought of that before the launched an ill-thought out invasion.

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