Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah
Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah
Heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers raid Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank and deliver 45-day closure order.
I don't know why this sticks out to me, but it's kind of nuts that as far as I can tell, the IDF and the Israeli government haven't even given a pretense for what legal authority they're drawing on.
The military referenced a "court order", which appears to be based on the Israeli domestic court system, but officially Ramallah is entirely under the legal jurisdiction of the potempkin government of the Palestinian Authority. But the IDF didn't even bother to go through this puppet government: they seem to have just shrugged and cited the ancient legal ruling of Bigger stick v. Smaller stick and robbed a news office of tens of thousands of dollars of equipment and office space at gun-point in broad daylight.
Everytime they get bolder, that's a very bad sign.
I mean, what do we expect when the entire world at most tuts and wags their finger at them when they commit what in any reasonable society would be a frighteningly authoritarian move? Did we not all go to school and learn that the press is always the first target of totalitarianism?
They also distributed camouflaged mines among the general population of another country, and the world responded with le memes about Achmed the dead terrorist.
why the fuck is the army shutting down a civilian building and not the police
Technically it is occupied territory, so Israel is not allowed to establish its own civillian forces there. However in practice they are doing that in their settlements, which are all illegal, as a further step of the annexation of the Westbank.
We defend them because they are the only democracy in the Middle East lol
I wonder why
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