Americans making up the weird-ass fake name “Waldo” instead of using the real normal name “Wally” that the rest of the world uses is so strange
It’s German. The early population of America was heavily German – with no overseas colonies of their own, the German diaspora (starting before German unification, of course) spread through the Americas – the thing about Nazis expatriating to Argentina postwar was that was the most advanced Germanophone community outside the WWII combatants – but a serious ethnosuppressionist campaign around entry to WWI has obscured this ever since.
The US and South America had big expatriate populations from all the Axis countries – remember Japanese internment? Remember when Peru was led by a guy named “Fujimori”? – for the same reason they were all doing imperial expansion, which was that they had pulled themselves together as modern countries too late to claim colonies of their own and so they were experiencing huge population outflows as citizens sought opportunity elsewhere
Well, also the Nazi thing because the only European governments with the capacity to even notice what was going on in South America – Spain and Portugal – were fascist-friendly at the time, Israel spinning up the capacity to go after them from scratch was a real testament to the strength of their intelligence community, which drew on tradition and experience dating back to the spymasters of imperial Central and Eastern Europe.
no one in international media is going to talk about how israel has de jure annexed the west bank? i’m seeing more than one lawyer reaching the conclusion this is what this transferral of powers means
Today the government of Israel has taken an action which entails de jure annexation of the West Bank.
An agreement was signed today between the Minister of Defense and the minister in his office, Bezalel Smotrich, for the transfer of governmental powers in the West Bank to the latter. Although the administrative authorities transferred to him do not include some military operational powers, this is a dramatic change in the structure of governance over the occupied territory. Very broad administrative authorities pertaining to the majority of the governing powers in the West Bank are being transferred into hands that are not of the military commander of the occupied territory. From now on, those powers will be held by the minister in the Ministry of Defense, who will de facto serve as the governor of the West Bank.
According to the agreement, the governor will be authorized to appoint officials in the Civil Administration and COGAT who exercise civil authorities, the legal advisors who will advise them, and he will be solely responsible for formulating policy.
The agreement includes two clauses aimed at obfuscating the transfer of powers by presenting the governor’s alleged subordination to the Minister of Defense, but according to the document, the cases in which the Minister of Defense can override the governor are extreme cases and even when this is done, the military commander of the West Bank will be bypassed, as he no longer holds authority.
The agreement also states that the governor will work to deepen the powers of the Israeli governmental authorities in the areas of Israeli settlements, a process which will promote the unification of government powers and geographically expand their direct legal authority in the West Bank. Or, in other words: stretching Israeli sovereignty beyond the Green Line.
The agreement also states that the governor will lead a process of expanding the dual legal system so that Israeli legislation by the Knesset will be applied more fully than it is today to the Israelis in the West Bank.
International laws of belligerent occupation state that an occupied territory will be temporarily administered by the occupying force (that is, the army) which, along with security considerations, will be obligated to promote the interests of the occupied people.
Transferring powers to Israeli civilian hands is an act of de jure annexation because it entails removing power from the occupying military and placing it directly in the hands of the government - this is an expression of sovereignty.
The bottom line is that the agreement signed today is simultaneously a giant leap of legal annexation of the West Bank and an act of perpetuating the regime’s apartheid nature.
the other lawyer i saw agreeing with this analysis is tel aviv university international law professor eliav lieblich
Had there been a formality outstanding? They have had the facts on the ground for a while now. I remember all the way since the ‘90s, they’ve slow-walked this well.
Man I had sex with so many hot Jewish daddies when I lived in New York and looking at the Tel Aviv grindr now I’m like. Damn what happened? Did we send all our uggos to Israel? Is that why they’re so violent over there?
So with the expected parts of Twitter looking at the FTX guys breaking for non-extraditing countries and darkly muttering “…Jews…” is Israel not an option anymore these days? Or do you have to clear the border before the heat comes on or else get turned away like Meyer Lansky?
See part of the reputation of Krav Maga as “hard” is it uses moves that no one who saw the counterpart as a fellow would consider legitimate or consider you legitimate after using, that’s how you can tell it’s Israeli
