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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  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    My internet keeps bumping off and on again on my machine. I think my router is fucked because it happens on all my devices that use wifi.

    Any tips on making your internet better, I have spectrum rn, should I try to switch to another provider or get a stronger router?

    • dualmindblade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      So you have some kind of spectrum modem with a built in router and the wired connection is solid? Assuming you’ve turned it off and back on again…

      Last time I had spectrum you could still configure quite a bit from the modem admin UI, usually you can access it at 192.167.1.1, though this can vary. Get in there, if you changed the password (you should have lol) and don’t remember you’ll need to do a hard reset on the modem which you can look up by model number. Update the firmware and/or mess with random wifi settings till it works. All of this is reversible with a hard reset, unless the firmware update fails so maybe do that last. If this fails either replace the hardware or get a separate wifi router, don’t need to worry about compatibility really just get one with the same or greater Ethernet bandwidth as the model. Or you can go to the spectrum brick/mortar and wait in line and they’ll replace it.

      VERY IMORTANT: when you do end up getting off spectrum and have to return the hardware, take a picture of the receipt at UPS or wherever you happen to return it. They will very likely try to fuck you and say it wasn’t returned, I believe this is an unofficial internal policy. Even if you do this they may send you to collection even thought you proved to them more than once you returned it. Take screenshots and/or recordings of all interaction with spectrum agents. Then finally a strongly worded letter (registered mail) to the collection agency with all your evidence will end the nightmare. Is it worth it to spent 12 hours of work and $10 to send a registered letter so that spectrum only extracts $2 extra dollars by selling your “debt” rather than 50? I would argue that yes, it is