Israeli soldiers raid, order closure of Al Jazeera office in Ramallah (www.aljazeera.com)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 22 Sep 14:41 next collapse
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BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 22 Sep 15:02 next collapse

I wonder why

andrewrgross@slrpnk.net on 22 Sep 15:03 next collapse

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.world on 22 Sep 15:22 next collapse

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.world on 22 Sep 16:52 collapse

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.

Saleh@feddit.org on 23 Sep 07:27 collapse

I mean every other country could stop sending them weapons, stop trading with them and stop abstaining or voting for them in UN resolutions.

wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world on 24 Sep 00:23 collapse

The only countries sending them weapons are the ones that are aligned with, or bullied by US interests. The majority of the world are appalled at both Israel and the US.

Steve@startrek.website on 22 Sep 20:19 collapse

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.cc on 22 Sep 23:14 next collapse

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

Saleh@feddit.org on 23 Sep 07:25 collapse

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.

Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world on 24 Sep 00:46 collapse

We defend them because they are the only democracy in the Middle East lol