Good Governance

Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation

So here’s a news flash: Israel actually does not have the right to defend itself in terms of the West Bank and Gaza. It has the right to protect its citizens, but it does not have the right to use overwhelming military force against people under its occupation.

Israel may take measures to protect its citizens—one of the most obvious would be to desist from putting them in harm’s way by planting settlements in the middle of occupied territory. It may also protect them using the police powers an occupier must have, powers which, it must be emphasized, are primarily in place to maintain law and order and protect the safety of those under occupation for whom Israel is ultimately responsible.

(https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57679.htm)

Signal president rejects “mass surveillance” UK law | Fortune

Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted chat service Signal, doubled down on her criticism of proposed British online safety legislation, calling the government’s plan to require a special back door to access encrypted messages “mathematically impossible” and vowing to exit the U.K. market if it becomes law.

“They would order us to implement it. We would not,” Whittaker said at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Deer Valley, Utah, this week.

In an on-stage conversation with Roy Bahat, the head of Bloomberg Beta, Whittaker said one of her primary missions is to prevent the dangerous trend of socially accepted surveillance.

(https://fortune.com/2023/07/13/signal-president-mass-surveillance-uk-law/)