The propaganda machine is real.
These laws only mean something if they are enforced.
History written by the victors. Victors typical the are most aggressive, amoral, or abject evil. In peace time we teach it as the truth.
This is the article, and I don’t see anything that points to a different obstacle. So yeah, I guess it’s fair to assume they meant Palestinians.
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Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- usability
to be fair I can’t think of a better headline either
“Israel massively expands colonization of West Bank”
that’s not very specific.
now that I’ve thought about it more maybe “Israel approves settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two”
I don’t like the word “approve” because it implies that Israel has authority to decide it.
Exactly. Only an authority figure can grant approval.
“Israel to allow settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two”?
Kind of the same thing, they can’t “allow” the thing either because they have no authority over it. And they are not allowing it to happen, Israel already did allow it to happen but under the guise of “being against it” for the media. That’s how the colonists got there.
Israel is now openly participating in the annexation and colonization, financially and militarily, which is much more than allowing it to happen.
If someone plans to rob a gas station the title wouldn’t be “approve/allow plan to confiscate currency from energy supplier”.
you don’t need authority to allow something to happen or approve of a source of action, but I’ll concede that “allow” implies inapplicable idling. I really can’t think of other ways to convey that the construction would cut West Bank in half and either that a government “tender, which seeks bids from developers, would clear the way to begin construction of the E1 project” or “Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades, but was frozen due to U.S. pressure during previous administrations.” I can’t say “advances plan” either because they’re opening up submissions for plans.
FWIW I would endorse “approve” in your gas station example.
edit: had→gas
“Israel continues Gaza genocide”
There. Easy. Straight to the point.
“Isreal finalizes plans for massive expansion of illegal Westbank settlements as part of ongoing ethnicity cleansing campaign”
