NST Leader: Israel's killing fields of journalists
If the genocidal intent was private before, it has now been made public from the prime minister downwards. The Zionist regime led by Benjamin Netanyahu has made a mockery of every piece of international law and the legal institutions that rule on it.
Even foreign state ministers and their families are threatened by its secret service, Mossad, for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), like South Africa's former foreign minister and her family were.
Even the ICJ was slammed for hearing the genocide case against Israel brought by South Africa. Mossad did the same to the former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, pressuring her to abandon her war crime probe.
Israel's pressure on Karim Khan, who is on leave as the chief prosecutor of the ICC, has a more dastardly twist. He now stands accused of sexual misconduct.
From Khan's statements to the media, it is now clear that Netanyahu was trying to stop the ICC from issuing arrest warrants for alleged war crimes against him and his former defence minister.
We are not surprised. Just recently, Netanyahu recruited the help of US President Donald Trump, who promptly said in his social media post that the trial should be cancelled immediately or a pardon given to "a GREAT HERO".
An alleged war criminal on a genocidal rampage, a great hero? A week later the court said it was delaying the case on "security" grounds. What an unruly world we live in.
Perhaps all this has to do with Israel's dark history. After all, Israel was an outcome of a lie by the European Jews and the West: the European Jews were people without a land and Palestine, a land without people.
Historical facts have proven it to be a fabricated lie for a colonial project. That foundational lie has turned the Zionists into serial liars.
The latest lie is that the Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif, killed by Israel's military on Sunday, was a Hamas leader.
The fact is, as rights advocates are saying, he was targeted for his frontline reporting on Gaza. To a lying regime, speaking truth to power is a crime. It goes against the Zionist regime's DNA.
Al Sharif was one of the 237 journalists assassinated since Oct 7, 2023. Were they all Hamas leaders? Were the four journalists killed along with Al Sharif Hamas leaders, too?
As Emma Graham-Harrison writes in her op-ed in The Guardian, Israel is running two campaigns in Gaza: one for the military control of the strip and another for the narrative control of how the world understands what happens there.
Israel's answer is to ban foreign journalists, and if they still manage to get in, kill them.
Netanyahu, the truth has long ago been out: the pen is mightier than all the weapons you have been supplied.
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