Post again says Israeli settlement are not legal internationally

A month ago, the Washington Post referred to Israeli settlements as "legal under Israeli law but not internationally." As I wrote at the time, this was the first case in months, if not years, that a top U.S. outlet had put the illegality in its own words in the news pages, and that was an excellent development. But I wasn't sure if it was just a fluke or a permanent policy chance.

It may be the latter. On Wednesday, in "Barak, U.S. Envoy Discuss Settlements", also by Glenn Kessler, we get:

There are more than 120 settlements in the occupied West Bank that are legal under Israeli law but not internationally. The Fourth Geneva Convention, which Israel ratified in 1951, forbids an occupying power to transfer "parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies," but Israel disputes that this provision applies to settlements. Israel seized the West Bank and other territories in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war

Impressive. Good for the Post.