Orwellian: Hamas says it will commit genocide, then commits genocidal acts on Oct 7, Israel responds to prevent it from continuing, Hamas openly says it will do more genocide, South African government takes Israel (not Hamas) to International Court of Justice for 'genocide'.

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“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." Henry Kissinger*

Sam Harris: Why Gaza Isn’t a Genocide youtube.com/shorts/g60KSd-WD…

.@amanpour Regime change now closer than ever. Hope your résumé is current.

Breaking: Hamas just fired its legal team.

CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee CNN editorial operations: report trib.al/5NN3tcd

This was the top of the New York Times last night. The first thing every reader sees the moment they land on the homepage of the most influential news outlet on earth. All three stories about Israel. There is a famous communications scholar named Maxwell McCombs who developed what is now called the "agenda setting theory." His core finding is simple: The press is not very good at telling people what to think. It is extraordinarily good, however, at telling people what to think ABOUT. And what the New York Times has decided you should think about, every single day, multiple times a day, forever and always, is Israel. You cannot saturate the most influential newsroom in the English language with relentless coverage of one small country and then act surprised when the public becomes similarly hyper-fixated with it. The animosity we constantly see is the predictable output of editorial selection, repeated daily, until it becomes the background music of how people think about the Jewish state.

Ramaphosa is terrified of facing the impeachment committee. His account of what happened at Phala Phala is tissue-thin, implausible, and riddled with contradictions. He has never had to defend it against a raised eyebrow, never mind hostile questioning. WSM's column on @Politicsweb politicsweb.co.za/news/the-b…

South Africa declared the world's gravest emergency at the ICJ - then requested delays until 2029. You cannot claim urgent genocide and ask for years to file your paperwork. The contradiction is not procedural. It is the verdict. Read our statement here sazf.org/current-issues/sout…

The DA misread data to create a false impression that parolees had broken out of prison while Groenewald was Correctional Services Minister thecommonsense.co.za/Editori… @CommonSense_ZA

Following South Africa’s request for at least 18 months to respond to Israel’s Counter Memorial in the baseless case that South Africa itself initiated against Israel, the Court has granted a period of three years for the next round of written pleadings. As noted in the Court’s Order, South Africa sought to justify its request on the basis of (1) the alleged complexity of the case; (2) the “voluminous nature” of Israel’s Counter Memorial and supporting annexes; and (3) Israel’s jurisdictional and admissibility objections. #Israel, for its part, submitted that a second round of written pleadings was unnecessary. Israel’s Counter Memorial, together with the extensive evidence supporting it, demonstrates that South Africa’s allegations are wholly unfounded and that this is a case that should never have been brought in the first place. This case constitutes a manifest misuse of the Genocide Convention and of the Court itself. Regardless of how long it may take, the only tenable outcome remains the dismissal of South Africa’s claims in their entirety.

An article by a Sudanese writer about the ICC and Gaza, that IOL mistakenly thought was anti-Israel, got suddenly removed off their website (iol.co.za/sundayindependent/…)

This week, the UN placed Israel on a shame list with Hamas, ISIS, and Boko Haram. Meanwhile, 1,500 UN employees in Gaza are under investigation for terror ties to Hamas. Nothing has been done. Once again, the UN totally ignores its own mission to bully a democratic nation and embolden terrorists.

🚨What if the biggest assumption about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is wrong? @EinatWilf joins @RubinReport for a deep dive into the history of Palestinian rejection of statehood proposals, the aftermath of October 7th, the anti-Israel movement, and the future of peace in the Middle East. WATCH HERE: rumble.com/v7akbyi-what-the-…

BREAKING: Author of U.N. report placing Israel on sexual violence blacklist admits she has not personally viewed any evidence. “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered. It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”

Elsa van Huyssteen on the arrival and expansion of Jew boycotts in South Africa politicsweb.co.za/news/are-w…

Redi Tlhabi just dropped a piece calling @Starlink a “national security threat” to South Africa… and warning us not to sell our democracy to @elonmusk . But she “forgot” to mention her piece is hosted on Phillip van Niekerk’s Substack, the same guy who’s A PAID CONSULTANT FOR MTN. MTN has every incentive to slow-walk Starlink while pushing its own satellite plays. Transparency matters when lecturing about “democracy” and foreign influence.

Lavrov called Rubio, asking the U.S. to evacuate the American embassy and American citizens from Kyiv because Moscow intends to launch a campaign of systematic strikes on the Ukrainian capital. Like they haven’t been doing it for more than four years now!

בית המשפט לערעורים בארה״ב החזיר את הסנקציות על תומכת הטרור האנטישמית פרנצ׳סקה אלבנזה. התחלת לארוז מהר מידי @FranceskAlbs

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