@Ostrov_A Theyโve decided not to read The Diary of Anne Frank bc those of Arab heritage may be โoffendedโ - theyโve caught the virus which causes brain rot. Contagious. Incurable.
@mishtal@BBCNews Good on calling them out. They must be, until they come to their senses. But, it a virus, is highly contagious, rots the brain inter alia.
Sinovuyo โSinoโ Dyokwe was murdered in Dunoon in broad daylight, on a busy street, shortly after spending her Saturday helping people register to vote.
The investigation must establish the full motive. But what cannot be ignored is the fear on the ground.
It is not believable that nobody saw anything. People saw. People know. But many are too afraid to speak because extortion gangs and organised criminals have made entire communities feel hostage.
That is the real crisis.
South Africa is not winning the fight against extortion if witnesses are too scared to come forward and if communities no longer believe the state can protect them.
We need a far more aggressive, intelligence-led and prosecution-led response. Follow the networks. Protect witnesses. Follow the money. Arrest the people giving the instructions, not only the people pulling the trigger.
Justice for Sino. Safety for Dunoon. IC
On this day โ June 23, 1944
At the Holocaust's peak โ as Nazis liquidated nearly 500k Hungarian Jews (over 434,000 deported to Auschwitz in MayโJuly 1944, ~330,000 gassed immediately, up to 10kโ12k per day) โ Jewish leaders begged the Allies to bomb Auschwitz & its rail lines.
This was the exact date the U.S. War Department issued its cold rejection, signed by Major General Thomas T. Handy:
โIt is impractical ... [it] could be executed only by diversion of considerable air support essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations. The War Department fully appreciates the humanitarian importance ... but decided the most effective way to help is to defeat the Axis powers.โ
The excuses and the obscenity:
- American bombers were already striking targets less than 5 miles from the gas chambers.
- Requests came from the World Jewish Congress, the War Refugee Board, and escapees Rudolf Vrba & Alfred Wetzler.
- No genuine feasibility study was ever conducted.
Hundreds of thousands could have been saved.
Senator George McGovern, who flew B-24 bomber missions near Auschwitz, later said:
โI think we should have gone after Auschwitz and taken our chances on killing some of the people there who were innocent but knocking out those gas chambers and the mass weapons of death. I also think it would have helped if we had bombed the railroad lines leading to Auschwitz. The purpose of those rail lines was to carrying human beings to their death.โ
They knew. They had the capability. They chose not to.
Today, we draw the only lesson history permits: When the lives of Jews hang in the balance, Jewish sovereignty is not optional โ it is the difference between survival and slaughter.
Never again will the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews be left in the hands of others who weigh the value of Jewish lives against โdecisive operations.โ
The Jewish state exists so that never again will Jews be helpless, having to beg strangers to save them while Jewish children burn.
@CptAllenHistory Obscene. Bloody tragic excuse my French. I have no words really. Jews have and will continue to face betrayal after betrayal. Yet emerge victorious painful though the victory be. Have those whoโve betrayed them ever felt a sense of shame. Rhetorical question -