I admire your optimism. They have a whole forest of fig leaves to use. "The Palestinian people have suffered tremendously because the actions of a terrorist few. In order to improve their lives, we will temporarily bring them over to housing constructed with US humanitarian assistance, in order that Gaza might be rebuilt and they might be able to resume their lives in their homeland in peace and prosperity."

OK, if this isn't such a big deal to the international order as you suggest, then there should be a few examples of a First World country getting away with ethnic cleansing, right?

I admire your optimism. They have a whole forest of fig leaves to use. "The Palestinian people have suffered tremendously because the actions of a terrorist few. In order to improve their lives, we will temporarily bring them over to housing constructed with US humanitarian assistance, in order that Gaza might be rebuilt and they might be able to resume their lives in their homeland in peace and prosperity."

OK, if this isn't such a big deal to the international order as you suggest, then there should be a few examples of a First World country getting away with ethnic cleansing, right?

By the way, I'm not sure where that aggressive tone is coming from. I don't disagree with you that this is a bad thing, only about your optimism that great powers would face consequences. I have never, ever seen them face consequences for any of their acts, and I don't expect that to start because logic dictates that it should. They are above logic.

Occasionally your perspective and reasoning is so obtuse that I wonder if you're disingenuous. Same thing with Giz.

In this case my OP is super clear that the issue isn't the actual violation because the conventions have been ignored many times, but then you restated the same point as a rebuttal.

I admire your optimism. They have a whole forest of fig leaves to use. "The Palestinian people have suffered tremendously because the actions of a terrorist few. In order to improve their lives, we will temporarily bring them over to housing constructed with US humanitarian assistance, in order that Gaza might be rebuilt and they might be able to resume their lives in their homeland in peace and prosperity."

OK, if this isn't such a big deal to the international order as you suggest, then there should be a few examples of a First World country getting away with ethnic cleansing, right?