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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MacOS does not have dynamic workspaces like GNOME , nor an overview. It also has a global status bar that integrates with system applets which GNOME does not have. Its windows have maximize, minimize and close buttons on the decorations.
Just because it superficially looks like macOS doesn't mean anything. GNOME isn't emulating MacOS and is still evolving and developing. If anything, MacOS is copying GNOME (considering they revamped their settings program to look a lot like GNOME instead of their previous grid view which tracked with GNOME 2)
I think you're getting angry over issues that aren't justified enough. If you believe in function over presentation and enjoyed the Windows 7 era UX they you can easily use KDE/Cinnamon/xfce.
Im biased since i believe GNOME to be a masterclass in OS design. But not everyone will agree. But i have to push back on the idea that free software is just copying established proprietary software.
The problem is not that with individual features of GNOME or MacOS. The problem is that the layout is shit because modern UI design is shit. This was pioneered primarily with apple products who valued ease of use over actual functionality. It makes me more upset than usual since the entire Linux platform is heavily influenced by functionality and freedom. Which makes it strange to me that they would use a design layout that is both restrictive and less functional. I get that it looks nicer, but I'm still pissed off with the lack of demarcations and hierarchy in the design.
I do and it works well. I just don't understand why people who generally understand how computers work prefer GNOME. It's like if 50% of the Navy's generals thought that rowboats were superior to warships.