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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 45 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 11 points 8 hours 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.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 11 hours 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.