Reply #32: You Will Note The Date Of This Material Is 2003, Sir

[The Magistrate]

The World Court, asked by the United Nations for an advisory opinion on the question, has after hearing arguments including those pressed by the gentleman you cite, ruled that the Geneva Convention does apply to the areas over-run in '67 and occupied ever since. That is the state of the law on the matter, and my position is simply that of the tribunal. The gentleman's arguement on the meaning of the artcle in question, furthermore, is false. Not only deportations for slave labor or expulsions of disfavored native elements were envisoned by it, but programs of colonization, which were engaged in in occupied territories in the west of the Soviet Union, and under the Lebensraum rubric, envisioned for the future on a grand scale. Among the conditions he posits for making the article applicable in his view, it would be very difficult to argue that the settlement program does not have the effect of impairing the economic situation of the native population. Not only the loss of land but interference with agricultural activities and water supply is far too well documented to admit of much arguement on that score.