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SIMPLE TRUTHS: Behind the contrived hysteria at UNRWA lurks Western fury at the ICJ decision; If Israel is plausibly guilty of genocide, then the “enlightened” West stands guilty of complicity in genocide; (1/)
They can’t lash out at the ICJ—that’s uncivilized!—so these cowardly sadists starve the children of Gaza instead. The puke beneath the thin veneer of Western Civilization has yet again burst forth.
But rational hope springs eternal:
- South Africa's sublime delegation at the ICJ
- ⁠The foreign doctors who volunteered on a suicide mission to serve in Gaza’s inferno
- ⁠The Gazan journalists who dared Fate by reporting the Truth as Israeli snipers methodically shot them dead
And the Houthis!, who don't stop their ears and blind their eyes to the agonized cries in Gaza, but—moved by the natural faculty of pity, and lacking the gift of "reason" to rationalize away this pity—have instead thrown down the gauntlet to the barbarous West.
No business as usual—No commerce, No trade—while Gaza is crucified!

“Men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason.” (Rousseau)

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Jan 30
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER PATRICK KINGSLEY “SCOOP”:

(1/)
Basing himself on Israeli “military officials, who spoke anonymously to discuss a sensitive matter” (“U.N. Agency for Palestinians Imperiled by Terrorism Charges,” January 29, 2024), Patrick Kingsley reported in today’s Times that 257.5 percent of UNRWA members belonged to Hamas;
That UNRWA siphoned international aid to build a Hamas “terror tunnel” via the center of the Earth stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole;
Read 5 tweets
Jan 29
Stop the Presses! Hamas Militants Have Day Jobs!

Let’s assume the horrible, awful, godforsaken worst: several of the 3,000 Hamas militants involved in the October 7 attack worked in UNRWA. Others no doubt worked in hospitals, bakeries, banks, and schools. (1/3)
So what?  UNRWA employs 13,000 Gazans.  The miracle would be if none was in Hamas.  This “story”—even were it true—was obviously contrived to distract from the ICJ decision and punish UNWRA  (2)
(outspoken UNRWA head Philippe Lazarini was quoted twice by the American judge reading the decision).  (3)
Read 5 tweets
Jan 29
Patrick Kingsley: NY Times Ace Sleuth
As the IDF closed in on al-Shifa hospital, Patrick Kingsley kept peddling Israeli disinformation that it was a Hamas command-and-control center.  (1)
Kingsley’s command-and-control center turned out to be a tunnel built by Israel containing a flush toilet. The day before the ICJ verdict, Kingsley peddled Israeli disinformation as he reported on a 400-page "secret" Israeli  “dossier” that “proved” it gave strict orders (2)
to obey humanitarian law in Gaza. Fortunately, the ICJ judges weren’t duped by this lowlife war whore.  Now, Kingsley is busily reporting on a new "secret" Israeli “dossier” that allegedly implicates UNRWA employees in the October 7 attack.(3)
Read 5 tweets
Dec 20, 2023
Bill Maher: In Search of a Nun

An undergraduate at Harvard rang me up yesterday.  He's trying to organize a debate on Gaza.  The problem is, no faculty at Harvard is willing to debate me.  Imagine!
Here I am, a lowly academic who couldn't even get tenure at a subpar college, yet everyone at Harvard is terrified of matching wits with me.  It's quite the sight these days.
The mighty Israel Defense Forces shoot dead in broad daylight women taking refuge in a church and bare-chested civilians carrying white flags.  So brave!  And then there are the cheerleaders here at home.
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Dec 20, 2023
Bill Maher, the Cabaret Comic

Bill Maher is a throwback to the third-rate Berlin cabaret comics who mocked the Jews:  “Isn’t it time those smelly Jews in Warsaw finally take a SHOWER?”  (Wink! Wink!  Ha! Ha!)

As half of Gaza’s population is starving; as half of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and 60% of its living quarters have been razed to the ground; as Israel has methodically targeted and destroyed Gaza’s hospitals
—in the midst of these “apocalyptic” conditions (UN Humanitarian and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths), Mr Maher chooses this moment to pleasure himself and his audience of fellow losers by taunting the Palestinian people:
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Dec 11, 2023
IS HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH COVERING UP ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE IN GAZA?

On November 26, 2023, Human Rights Watch released its “Findings on October 17 al-Ahli Hospital Explosion.” .hrw.org/news/2023/11/2…
The findings effectively exonerated Israel of culpability for the massive death toll at the hospital.  On November 29, I sent a list of skeptical queries to Omar Shakir, Director of Israel and Palestine Affairs at HRW.
On that same day, Mr Shakir replied that “we’ll aim to get back to you by next week.”  On December 6, however, I was informed by Mr Shakir that HRW would not be answering my queries.
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