Ronesh Dhawraj

SABC News Research Editor 👨‍💻✍ | Author of a doctoral thesis 📚 on digital political communication 📡 | Lover of good cinema 🎬

[Richard @ricwe123]

Professor John Mearsheimer:

"Listen carefully and pay close attention to what the founder of Israel, Ben-Gurion, says.
I’m going to read two quotes from him.

The first:

‘Why should the Arabs make peace?
If I were an Arab leader, I would never make an agreement with Israel under any circumstances.’

Pay attention to what he is saying here. He said, ‘If I were an Arab leader, I would never make peace with Israel.’

He then went on to say,and this is the second quote from Ben-Gurion:

‘They see only one thing: we have come here and stolen their land, so why should they accept that?!’

Here is David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel and the founder of the State of Israel, openly saying:
‘We have stolen their land.’”

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

US Big Tech corporations are blatantly meddling in Brazil’s elections.

Meta censored left-wing President Lula da Silva, while promoting far-right, Trump-backed candidate Flávio Bolsonaro.

I documented the US interference here:
https://t.co/iG5zXsxNir

[Casimir von Falkenhayn @Falkenhayn_]

The Moment Trump Leaves the Iran War, the Petrodollar Dies Forever

Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is like a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.

For 50 years the petrodollar system forced the world to buy oil in U.S. dollars, then recycle those dollars into U.S. Treasuries and assets. That artificial demand is what kept the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

These same Gulf States are massively leveraged. They’ve borrowed heavily from Western banks to fund megaprojects, sovereign wealth plays, and lifestyle. When the oil money stops, they default.

Those defaults cascade straight into the global banking system and the AI infrastructure bet.

Jeff Currie, former Goldman Sachs head of commodities and lifelong insider of the dollar system, just laid out the one line America cannot cross. Handing control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran is not a tactical retreat. It is the formal end of the United States as global hegemon and the death of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that Iran had its “throat on the Strait of Hormuz” for 45+ years and told the Trump administration to “finish this thing and finish it right.”

Bank of America’s desk reported that U.S. now only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.

[Daily Iran News @DailyIranNews]

BREAKING: The war is officially back.

America is bombing Iran now.

Multiple explosions are going off in Sistan and Baluchestan Province.

Two Iranian personnel are now fighting for their lives.

The IRGC will most likely carry out retaliatory strikes across the Middle East in the next 48 hours.

Several countries have warned their citizens to stay indoors across the Middle East.

Embassies are now warning citizens to prepare for possible airport shutdowns.

Things are about to get brutal.

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Iran's IRGC is now threatening to completely cut off the world's internet, with spokesman Hossein Mohebi saying seven major cables run under the Strait of Hormuz that global data depends on, warning: "we are reminding them of this so that the enemy knows," per Fars News.

The threat follows Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's announcement of a "Persian Gulf Data Authority" and SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaee's warning that over $2 trillion in data centers would be destroyed if war resumes.

The significance is the target itself. These cables carry roughly 99% of intercontinental data and trillions in daily financial transactions. A successful strike could wipe out 70% to 90% of the Gulf's internet connectivity, crippling global commerce. Iran is making it clear: if the US strikes its energy infrastructure, the next target will be the digital backbone of the global economy.

[Ronesh Dhawraj @ronesh]

#Tshwane admits negligence after 408 fall ill in #Bronkhorstspruit City of Tshwane has admitted negligence after supplying unchlorinated water from the sewage-polluted Bronkhorstspruit River for three weeks without warning residents,... https://t.co/RML172kVI0

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

בואו למסיק הזיתים בגדה המערבית. אנחנו גם עומדים מול טרור המתנחלים וגם עושים פעולה של סולידריות ושלום, פלסטינים וישראלים ביחד.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

🇮🇱 Netanyahu says Jews have the non-negotiable right to the lands of Israel:

" This is our homeland. It’s called Judea; that’s where Jews come from, and we’ve been attached to it for thousands of years.

The entire claim remains on a fraudulent premise — that Judea is to the Jews as France is to the French or Italy is to the Italians.

That premise is false.Categorically false.

France is the state of French citizens.
Italy is the state of Italian citizens.
Israel is the state of Israeli citizens — not of Jews worldwide.

Jews are not a nationality attached to a sovereign state.

They are a group of people dispersed across many countries, holding many citizenships.

Most Jews are not Israeli. They don't vote in Israel. They do not live under Israeli law. They owe Israel no political allegiance.

Zionism survives by erasing that distinction.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israeli settlers attacked a Washington Post journalist. Stole her cameras. Stole her phone. IDF soldiers watched. Did nothing.

If they're attacking American journalists on camera, what do you think they're doing to Palestinians off camera?

[מסתכלים לכיבוש בעיניים @Mistaclim]

A gang of settler terrorists violently attacked "Washington Post" journalist Heidi Levine, 64, this morning, and also robbed her belongings. It is important to clarify right now: the problem is neither Israeli "hasbara" (public diplomacy) nor global antisemitism.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Nothing like writing a whole long ass statement for your Western audience, only for one of your own to to pop up and say, “U are lying.” 😆

Lov’en it

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.

Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was hospitalized after settlers brutally beat and robbed her while she covered the West Bank olive harvest. The attack drew condemnation from the U.S. Embassy, press freedom groups and Israel's journalists' union. Levine described a growing climate of fear among Palestinian harvesters, while rights groups warned that repeated attacks on journalists continue amid a lack of accountability. | Liza Rozovsky, Matan Golan, and Etan Nechin

Footage used courtesy of @infinite_jaz

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Hind Rajab’s final phone call lasted approximately 70 minutes in the released audio recordings, but the entire communication lasted more than three hours.

The full recording was heartbreaking, but this specific part continues to haunt us to this day. The Israeli occupation continues to kill children til this day.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

🇮🇷 Ancient Jewish community in Isfahan, Iran — still praying and living as Jews.

For more than 2,700 years.

They maintain synagogues, practice openly, and even hold a seat in parliament.
Yet almost none of this is ever shown.

Jews have lived outside of Israel for millennia.
They still do.

Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The purpose of the genocide convention is to prevent genocide.."

Navi Pillay with a message for everyone who says countries don't need to act because a court hasn't found Israel guilty of genocide

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Trump is correct: killing the ayatollah & most of the moderates was a mistake.

The Israelis assured Trump that doing so would annihilate the regime. Instead, it cleared the way for IRGC hardliners to take control and galvanized the Iranian people against America.

The Israelis sold Trump a lie to ensure we’d end up ensnared in a conflict that serves their interests, despite bringing nothing but harm to the American people.

Trump can break out of this trap by walking away now. No more escalation, or waiting for a deal that the Iranians can’t give him.

Just walk now.

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

MAJOR BREAKING: All indications point to a MAJOR escalation about to take place in the Saudi/Yemen War.

Let’s get you up to speed on what has taken place this morning.

Just over an hour ago, the Saudi Coalition Spokesperson released a formal statement warning civilians in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a to prepare to evacuate undisclosed sites in anticipation of a major Saudi strike.

Immediately following this, the Ansar Allah (Houthi) Spokeperson, Yahya Saree, issued his own statement saying that Ansar Allah will respond to any targeting of Sana’a with “harsh and painful” strikes on the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

Just a few minutes later, it was announced by the Saudi Coalition that civilians must immediately evacuate the Yemeni OIL SITES in Sana’a in anticipation of Saudi strikes that would seek to destroy these facilities.

In return, the Ansar Allah Spokesperson stated that any strikes on Yemeni oil sites would be met with the targeting of Saudi ARAMCO facilities in Saudi Arabia.

This war is going completely off the rails at this point, and if Saudi Arabia proceeds with their strikes on Sana’a’s oil sites, one thing has been made abundantly clear in the last few days:

Saudi might be able to hit whatever they want in Yemen…

But Ansar Allah can also destroy anything they want in Saudi Arabia.

ARAMCO is in SERIOUS trouble.