WM VAN WAGENEN—A cell phone video from a concert attendee shows Israeli police and security forces using their vehicles to block the road near the festival site and exchanging fire with Hamas fighters. When gunfire erupted, those trapped on the road fled east into open fields, whether in their cars or by foot. Many made it past the fields and hid near trees, under bushes, and in ravines. But body cam footage shows heavily armed Israeli police units taking up positions on the road and firing across the open field into the trees where civilians had taken cover.
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Our colleague and China expert JEFF J. BROWN has collated a formidable set of materials to help Americans, and Westerners in general, break out of the Sinophobic prison built for them by the West’s unrelentingly malicious disinformation machine.
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SABBY SABS—A wide-ranging discussion of many topics deciding the course of history, from South Africa’s accusation of genocide by Israel before the ICJ, to Biden’s typically unintelligent response to the Houthi challenge. Plus the mystery of the Hasidic NYC secret tunnels.
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EDITOR—Mehdi Hasan made the calculated decision that if he supported nazis in Ukraine, smeared Assad on behalf of the MIC, and did propaganda for Genocide Joe and the Democratic Party he would be safe. He thought they would allow him to tell the truth about a crucial issue if he pushed…
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EDITOR—The opening salvo of South Africa’s legal bid to hold Israel accountable for genocide in Gaza rang out this morning in a crowded courtroom in The Hague. The State of Israel has failed to prevent and is continuing to commit acts of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza, lawyers for the Republic of South Africa told the International Court of Justice, gathered in the ornate chambers of The Hague’s Peace Palace. Standing at a podium in front of the Court’s fifteen judges, supplemented by judges ad hoc Aharon Barak (Israel) and Dikgang Ernest Moseneke (South Africa), and in front of a battery of lawyers and scores of diplomatic observers, South African attorney Adila Hassim spelled out the acts Israel has committed against the Palestinian people of Gaza – acts defined as genocidal under Article II of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
