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In the US it is supposed to be foreign surveillance or domestic with a warrant. For Israel this is domestic without a warrant since they have occupied or other
by cma 1y ago
In the US it is supposed to be foreign surveillance or domestic with a warrant. For Israel this is domestic without a warrant since they have occupied or otherwise broadly controlled Gaza for many decades.
Foreign surveillance from someone with little power over you is different than an Orwellian system domestically.
- SilverElfin 1y agoGaza has been independent for a while though. Israel left in 2005 or so and Hamas came into power soon after, voted in by the residents of Gaza willfully. And there has been a long history of rocket attacks and other terrorism since then. Anyways, the US, UK, and EU aren’t any different. Snowden revealed all the warrantless surveillance going on against their own people.
- OhioMan2943 1y agoThere is definitely some truth in that, but also there are many links between hamas and the likud party in terms of funding and there haven't been elections held in gaza since circa 2007
- g8oz 1y agoGaza was never independent by any meaningful metric. Ground, air and sea access are all controlled by Israel. Water and electricity have to come from Israel. Attempts to install solar panels resulted in them being bombed. Israeli officials control food deliveries as well. Years ago a document was leaked showing how they tracked caloric intake of Gaza residents to make sure that they are not "overfed". Gaza was and is an open air prison. Trying to understand the conflict from the lens of the usual "2 countries beefing" will lead to faulty analysis. Gaza has been occupied since 1948 and Israel is the occupier.
- cma 1y agoA blockade where they couldn't export, but they could export labor to work for Israeli settlements as day laborers. That's similar to slavery and not any kind of independent state.