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Ros Altmann retweeted
Fun Fact:
The former President of the Int'l Court of Justice said, "The ICJ did NOT claim or find that Israel committed a genocide.... They didn’t even find it plausible that genocide has taken place."
Translation, for the 'Useful Idiots':
➡️ ➡️ THERE WAS NO GENOCIDE‼️ ⬅️ ⬅️
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What Israel did in Gaza may well go down in history as the most humane and precise urban warfare environment the world has ever known—the very opposite of genocide.
The entire purpose of a genocide is to push civilians into the killing zone.
Think about what happened in the Holocaust, where children in line at Auschwitz were given bars of soap, where inside of the gas chambers there were fake shower heads.
What was the point?
It was to trick and induce civilians to get in to the killing zone so that you could kill more of them more efficiently over time.
Israel has done the very opposite—warning civilians and then manning humanitarian corridors with its own soldiers, risking its own sons’ and daughters’ lives to ensure that civilians get out of the killing zone.
We see two remarkable things in Gaza.
First, according to preeminent urban warfare scholars like John Spencer, Richard Kemp, and Andrew Fox, Israel has the lowest militant-to-civilian kill ratio in the history of urban warfare.
Genocides have extreme civilian-to-militant kill ratios. Hundred, thousand, ten thousand-to-one. That’s the point of a genocide.
Here we have a militant-to-civilian kill ratio of may be two-to-one—not consistent not just with law of war violations—but much less with genocide.
Second, and more importantly, all genocidal regimes get better over time at killing civilians.
Again, think about the Holocaust. The Nazis started with firing squads killing 20, 30, 50 people at a time and realized that was too inefficient. Then they got these vans and filled them with exhaust pipes, and they would kill more people. And they said, “We’re never going to get to six million killing them this way.” That led them to construct these massive gas chambers and crematoria—the architecture of true genocide—to kill thousands and thousands of people cheaply and efficiently a day.
Israel has done the opposite.
Even if you believe Hamas’ numbers, the scale of civilian death in Gaza went down over time. Israel got better and better and spent hundreds of millions of shekels learning how to become more efficient at preserving innocent Palestinians’ lives.
Again, the very opposite of genocide.
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BREAKING: An UNRWA teacher in Gaza has just exposed the entire system.
She details a culture of death being cultivated in the schools.
Billions of European tax dollars are flowing to this organization.
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Just a few months ago, Islamic terrorists massacred an entire Christian community in Congo. Over 60 people slaughtered in an hour.
Thousands of Christians are slaughtered in Congo and the world remains silent. Thousands more Christians are slaughtered in Nigeria, Ethiopia and other parts of North and Central Africa, and the media say nothing.
The Pope continues to tell the world how Muslims are your friends and brothers while priests and community leaders cry over rivers of blood those “friends and brothers” leave in their path to wiping out non Muslims from existence.
We’re living in dark times. Possibly the darkest in memory. Because it isn’t just that these atrocities are happening in such frequency, but that half the non Muslim world seems to defend those perpetrating the mass killings.
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I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years.
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A welcome opportunity to counter world leaders' outrageous lies with @UNWatch.
Those who abuse the UN to promote falsehoods about Israel and subvert international law must be held to account.
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🇮🇳 REMEMBER THIS MAN: CAPTAIN SMIT MACHCHHAR.
An Indian captain flying hundreds of people from Dubai to Tel Aviv was stabbed in his own cockpit.
Wounded, bleeding, with the aircraft plunging thousands of feet, he fought back.
Then passengers and crew did something extraordinary:
They stormed the cockpit.
They restrained the attacker.
Other pilots took control.
And that plane LANDED.
Hundreds of families got their loved ones back today because ordinary people refused to freeze when everything went wrong.
Captain Smit Machchhar — India and the whole WORLD should be proud of you. 🇮🇳
And to the passengers and crew who ran toward the danger instead of away from it:
Heroes. Every single one of you.
This is what courage looks like.
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⚠️ WARNING: EXTREMELY UPSETTING COMMENTARY AND IMAGES ⚠️
Muslim terrorists from Islamic State Mozambique beheaded more than thirty Christians last September, photographed the work, and put the pictures out themselves. Churches burned. Earlier that same year, they beheaded seventy in Congo.
Homes were burned. Knives and machetes ripped people apart and their heads off their bodies. This isn’t some rumor or fog-of-war claim. They wanted it seen.
When the IDF strikes a cell of armed Hamas terrorists, the UN holds a special session, and every network it as the largest story since the towers fell. Yet Mozambique got almost nothing. Nigeria’s Christians get almost nothing. The Congo’s Christians get almost nothing. No flotilla. No protest marches. No keffiyehs. No Jews, no news.
That’s not an accident of coverage. It’s a deliberate coordinated sorting system. Headlines only count when the wrong people can be blamed. But when the people doing it are proud of the blade and the people dying are Christians in villages, or Jews in music festivals, or Hindus burned alive on trains, the West treats it like a weather report.
The same ideology that tore through Israeli homes on October 7 have been tearing through hundreds of Christian villages and communities across Africa. It’s the same Saturday-then-Sunday sequence. The same silence from the campuses that can name every Israeli official and cannot name the village of Cabo Delgado.
They’re not confused about what they’re doing. The only people still confused are the ones blaming the Jews for defending themselves against the same ideology that is massacring christians in the thousands.
How many thousands more need to be slaughtered before the world even says something?
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President of the Republic of Cyprus Christodoulides at his UN speech today:
"I listened very carefully to President Erdoğan’s speech yesterday: references to international law, respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, illegal occupation, and the plight of refugees. Yet, when it comes to Cyprus, Turkey does the exact opposite. The hypocrisy is staggering."
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres said: “I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as Secretary-General.”
According to even the most critical reports, Guterres, 70,000 people were killed in the war in Gaza, a large proportion of them Hamas terrorists.
During your years as Secretary-General: more than 600,000 people were massacred or starved to death in Ethiopia.
377,000 died in Yemen — that figure appears in reports issued by your own organization.
150,000 were killed in Sudan and 12 million were displaced.
Hundreds of thousands have been buried in Ukraine.
You didn’t see it? They died before your eyes. You simply looked the other way, because the Jews couldn’t be blamed.
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The UN can find its voice the moment a Jewish army fires back. It loses that voice the moment Arabs bury Arabs.
That is not an accident of scheduling. It is the operating system. Volker Türk can open a session by saying nothing justifies how Israel has fought in Gaza, and the room will nod as if that sentence were the whole of international law.
Then a Yemeni named Luai Ahmed @JustLuai gets ninety seconds and asks where Yemen’s flag is, after half a million of his people died in ten years in a famine the Council treated as weather. He asks where Sudan’s flag is after more than a hundred and fifty thousand killed in less than two years. He asks where Syria’s flag is after another half million. He asks why nobody protests when Arabs kill millions of Arabs.
Those deaths did not lack cameras. They lacked a Jew to blame.
The same report that names Israel one hundred and eighty-eight times cannot find room to name Iran even once, even though Iran armed, trained, and paid Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis who spent their treasure firing at Israel instead of feeding Yemen.
Qatar sits on the Human Rights Council while it puts Hamas’s leaders in luxury hotels.
That is not a footnote. That is the institution telling you which corpses it is willing to count.
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Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff is asking the Labour government to stop lying.
Hausdorff has said this in plain English: Whitehall must be governed by facts and data, not by folk tales in which Jews in Judea wander the hills murdering Muslim children and starving pregnant Muslim women. Those stories are not journalism. They are the medieval blood libel with a press pass. Hamas writes the script. The UN stamps it. British ministers repeat it. Social media industrialises it. The target is not “policy.” It is Jews in Israel.
Breaking: Israel slams British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband as a communist propagandist lying to the British public to win Muslim votes.
Miliband posted a video repeating “stories” he was told about disabled children and pregnant women denied free access to medicines in Gaza because the Jews in Israel wanted them to die from hunger and genetic disorder. Then he used those stories to demand that Labour “act more decisively” against Israel.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry answered with the following facts:
The British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband posts a video recounting “stories” he was told about Gaza.
If the Foreign Secretary were interested in facts rather than stories, he would know that there are no restrictions whatsoever on the entry of medicines into the Gaza Strip and that no medicines are being blocked; that 22,500 tons of medical supplies have entered Gaza since the ceasefire began; and that Gazans exit the Strip for medical treatment, including 200 who did so in just the last two weeks.
And of course, the British Foreign Secretary is well aware of all this, as the UK is a member of the International Gaza Support Center, which facilitates the delivery of medical aid to the Gaza Strip.
But apparently, facts matter less when making a video for a political audience. He knows the numbers. He chose the lie.
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For Gaza to Recover, Hamas Must Be Expelled
Hamas should have no role in Gaza’s future but, appallingly, so many in the West who consider themselves allies of the Palestinian people still see the brutal gangster group as honorable resistance fighters. Their support for, or failure to denounce, the group only helps perpetuate the degradation of Gaza and the myth that Israel can be eliminated. Yet peace is possible. But only for a peaceful Palestinian republic nxt to the Israeli one
nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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My Sunday Times piece: Slow growth, high and rising levels of government debt (and debt interest rates) and unaffordable pensions mean that if nothing changes young people face a gloomy future:
Why today’s young people will be poorer than their parents
thetimes.com/article/af0839b…
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Alice Nderitu. Most people don't know that name.
I talk about her all the time. Why is she important? She was one of the world's preeminent experts on genocide.
She's a Kenyan woman, not a Jew, not married to a Jew, obviously not Israeli.
She rose in the ranks of international communities around the world because of her tremendous expertise in this field.
And she she reached the pinnacle of this field. She became the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of Genocide.
She became the world's preeminent and most prominent source on whether genocides were happening around the world and how to prevent them.
And she was adamant and clear that there was no genocide in Gaza, that it was the furthest thing from a genocide, that Israel spent tremendous amounts of money and effort and had an entire organization of its government devoted to preserving and protecting the lives of uninvolved Palestinian citizens.
And then what did Alice Nderitu get for telling the truth at the United Nations?
She was fired. Her contract was not renewed, and someone who would toe the party line was placed there in her stead.
And it's the fact that no one even knows her name that shows you what it looks like to lose an information war in the West.
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On this day—August 29, 1929
Two decades before Israel’s independence, the ancient Jewish community of Safed was massacred. Their neighbors burned them out of it.
Five days after the Hebron Massacre, Arabs from the town and nearby villages came with knives and tins of kerosene. They murdered the schoolteacher Aphriat with his wife and mother. They cut the lawyer Toledano to pieces. They smashed children’s heads in the orphanage.
18 Jews dead.
40 wounded.
200 houses burned.
The British commander walked the quiet main street and did not go down to the killing. Police searched Jews for weapons while the massacre was still running.
This was not “resistance to occupation.”
Israel did not yet exist.
The victims had lived in Safed for centuries.
It was a pogrom against people whose crime was remaining Jewish in a Jewish city.
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Israel flooded enemy-held territory with more food than UN agencies could handle.
Meanwhile, the media used images of sick children to cover up the truth.
The "Gaza Genocide" is the most horrific hoax of the twenty-first century. #GazaGenoLie
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Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:
"I want the world to know what is being done to me."
Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.
Four. Male. Witnesses.
If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.
This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.
Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.
Islamic Republic in Iran hangs 24-Year-old woman who defended herself from sexual assault
Yesterday the regime executed Marziyeh Neyri yesterday, a young woman who was forced into marriage at age 17 and hanged for fighting back against her attacker.
Marziyeh was 18 years old when her husband's associate attempted to sexually assault her in her own home, in front of her husband. She grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself. Her husband died in the struggle.
She told the court she had been repeatedly assaulted by her husband's associates before that day. Iran's courts didn't care.
The regime rejected her self-defense claim. Her attacker, who survived, took the stand and called her a murderer. The court believed him over her.
She was sentenced to death.
No clemency. No mercy. The sentence was carried out at Chubindar Prison in Qazvin.
Marziyeh Neyri never had a chance. Forced into marriage as a child under Iran's Islamic laws, she spent the few years of her adult life in a courtroom, fighting for her life after defending it.
She lost.
This is the Sharia Laws in Islamic Republic of Iran where a woman can be hanged for surviving.
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