On this day in 1967, the Israeli Army occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming emergency powers with a military decree that greatly restricts the rights of the occupied. The ongoing occupation is the longest in the modern era.
The Israeli Army action took place in the context of the Six Day War, fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The status of the West Bank as a militarily occupied territory has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice and, with the exception of East Jerusalem, by the Israeli Supreme Court.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the military proclamation issued by the Israeli Army on June 7th, 1967 permitted the application of the Defense (Emergency) Regulations of 1945.
These regulations empowered, and continue to empower, authorities to declare as an "unlawful association" groups that advocate for "bringing into hatred or contempt, or the exciting of disaffection against" the authorities, and criminalize membership in or possession of material belonging to or affiliated, even indirectly, with these groups.
HRW goes on to state that these and other broad restrictions on the occupied population violate international law: "The Israeli army has for over 50 years used broadly worded military orders to arrest Palestinian journalists, activists and others for their speech and activities - much of it non-violent - protesting, criticizing or opposing Israeli policies. These orders are written so broadly that they violate the obligation of states under international human rights law to clearly spell out conduct that could result in criminal sanction."
Following the military occupation of the West Bank, Israel began expropriating the land and facilitating Israeli settlements in the area, broadly considered a violation of international law. While Israelis in the West Bank are subject to Israeli law and given representation in the Israeli Knesset, Palestinian civilians, mostly confined to scattered enclaves, are subject to martial law and are not permitted to vote in Israel's national elections.
This two-tiered system has inspired comparisons to apartheid, likening the dense disconnected pockets that Palestinians are relegated to with the segregated Bantustans that previously existed in South Africa when the country was still under white supremacist rule.
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Dr Who bury your gays any% speedrun.The Doctor and Ruby time travel to a regency ball so they can LARP as the worst possible sorts of saes. Complications abound as the ball is also home to shape shifting owl people and a DnD playing space bounty hunter called Rogue
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Things I liked:
Scant few this time :(
Set design on that space ship was good, it was cluttered but not in the "we spaffed a million Easter eggs over the background for tedious dorks to play Where's Wally but for childhood nostalgia" sorta way. As someone who lives in a chaotic mess of a house, I felt seen when the Doctor is like "damn bitch you live like this?" To his edgy new boyfriend.
The payoff for the psychic earring dialogue at the start being Ruby downloading martial arts to her brain to beat up a bird person. That was the kinda goofy plot-twist that really makes use of Dr Who's wackier setting elements.
Things I didn't like:
The bird people. I dunno, having their noses being beaks just looked weird and accentuated the people in bodypaint vibe they had. It was probably intentional, but I didn't like it.
My soul leaving my body every time a character said "cosplay".
Rogue. I will not elaborate.
The amount of times Bridgerton was name dropped. Yeah, yeah we get the BBC also has a period drama you can go watch, shut up already.
Overall - this one was my least favourite of the series so far. Bury your gays speedrun still hasn't beat that one Christmas episode where a security guard slides on screen to have a phonecall with his boyfriend only to get immediately killed by a Dalek. And I'm still unsure of the utility of a machine that can detect if something's a shapeshifter but not what shapeshifter they are.