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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Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal: UN rights commission
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Anyone else get really uncomfortable when eating at a restaurant? Like I don't mind being at a restaurant but when I have to eat I feel like everyone is watching and judging me ya know?
Literally no one is watching you. People do not give a shit about random people around them. You'll understand when you get older.
Literally none of this is true.
I people watch. Lots of people watch other people, for many different reasons.
Some people enjoy the spectacle. Some people are doing research for their book or script. Some people just like people.
Some neurodivergent people will watch other people with great attention to detail because we're trying to understand neurotypical behaviors to better survive in a neurotypical society.
Some neurodivergent people have been othered or even shunned by neurotypical people for their neurodivergent traits, and sometimes those traits come out while we're eating. It's not weird for us to be concerned that neurotypical people might judge us even then; it's pretty likely that anyone concerned about that is concerned because it has happened to them before.
I am in my early 40s. I do understand that people are sometimes watching me and sometimes judging me for things I can't do anything about, because that it is my lived experience. It is also the experience of many other people.
I wish I could live in a world where nobody watched and judged, or that I could be oblivious to it. I'm getting better at not caring, which is probably the most achievable goal.
(For anyone wondering how I'm improving on that, that one really is just age; I chalk it up to the typical loss of fucks that happens to people in their 40s.)