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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  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    A new trailer for STALKER 2 came out which includes bits of scripted cutscenes and gameplay. In one of the scenes, a black character appears for a moment. He seems to be a trader of some sort but that is just my guess. He will be the first black stalker featured in any of the four games. I don't have to tell you about the reaction of certain elements of the community, right? Stalker has gone woke, they're pushing an agenda, etc etc. One character in the whole franchise already broke them lmao, because apparently black people can't exist in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and it's fictional universe.

    Wait till they see a woman in the Zone (none of the Stalker games feature one, althrough one is mentioned in campfire stories which make up a chunk of the lore). Actually, THE most popular STALKER mod out there (Anomaly) adds a female stalker known as "Hip" that has a questline and you can later recruit as a follower. This completely drives some people in the community mad, who go as far as creating mods to remove her from the game, turn her into a hyper sexualized object or go straight to where she is to kill her, because fragile masculinity.

    I shouldn't have the power to decide who's normal and who's not, but holy shit these people are fucked up big time.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      I saw the trailer and decided not to look at the comments because I could only imagine what was gonna be there.

      One of the games I did check comments for was for Sumerain Six, which is a sci-fi WWII era game where you fight Nazis and one of the comments was "another game where you kill Nazis, yawn." Killing Nazis is always good and fun. The only people that wouldn't think so are Nazisstalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2