Heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers raid Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank and deliver 45-day closure order.
  • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
    60·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      2 months ago

      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?

      • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        84·
        2 months ago

        There is not much the world can do with that champion of freedom and justice shipping vast quantities of weapons to them and blocking every move to hold them accountable.

    • Steve@startrek.websiteEnglish
      151·
      2 months ago

      They also distributed camouflaged mines among the general population of another country, and the world responded with le memes about Achmed the dead terrorist.

  • Moxible@monyet.ccEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    why the fuck is the army shutting down a civilian building and not the police