The Netanyahu regime and its chief patron, the United States, understand the magnitude of South Africa’s ICJ application, which will be heard this week, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Gareth Porter reviews the Netanyahu government’s process of planting stories of nonexistent atrocities by Hamas on Oct. 7 with credulous foreign-news outlets and the Biden administration.
The State Department is not actually upset with Ben Gvir and Smotrich for advocating the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, it’s only upset that they said it, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed.
M.K. Bhadrakumar compares the two wings of the Palestinian resistance group to Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and its militant wing, the Irish Republican Army.
The U.S. vice president, secretary of state and defense secretary are using unusually blunt language against Israel’s massacres of Palestinians. But the money and weapons keep flowing, says Joe Lauria.