Pearls and Irritations

Witness an interview from 54 years ago regarding Israel and Palestine that are still relevant today, and an interview with our Treasurer that’s less so. Margaret Satterthwaite speaks at the UN about threats to the ICC, while Israel has decimated North Gaza, barely a building standing.

54 years ago: Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani schools a journalist on settler occupation
@Jonathan_K_Cook

In this short clip from 1970, Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani schools a western journalist on why ‘peace talks’ between the neck and the sword are never really about peace. Israel murdered him two years later.

Still as relevant today as it was 54 years ago. pic.twitter.com/vaT2H7MvHE

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) December 18, 2024

Threats against the ICC promote a culture of impunity.
@UNGeneva

“Let me be very clear: Threats against the ICC promote a culture of impunity. They make a mockery of the decades-long quest to place law above force and atrocity.”

– @SRjudgeslawyers Margaret Satterthwaite pic.twitter.com/dK23x0UQVK

— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) December 17, 2024

Journalist Youssef Fares reports: Northern Gaza now looks as if it was struck by a nuclear bomb.
@gazanotice

Journalist Youssef Fares reports: Northern Gaza now looks as if it was struck by a nuclear bomb. Not a single house remains intact.

This morning, Israeli forces planted four barrels of explosives in a residential area near Al-Awda Hospital in Tel Al-Zaatar and detonated them… pic.twitter.com/ndQagkPJOv

— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) December 18, 2024

Treasurer Jim Chalmers sets Sunrise straight
@SquizzSTK

Sunrise lied about inflation, interrupting after 4 seconds with a whinge that “giving people handouts” causes inflation🙄

Jim Chalmers smacks that rubbish down too “This would be the worst time to hack into Medicare or cost of living help”#auspol pic.twitter.com/X5nPbfc7II

— Squizz (@SquizzSTK) December 18, 2024

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