Ziyaad Paruk

MCom (UCT) 🎓 | Intl. Tax 💼 | South African-American-ish 🇿🇦

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

World's 10 best cities for 2024

1. 🇺🇸 New York City, US
2. 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa
3. 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
4. 🇬🇧 London, UK
5. 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain
6. 🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
7. 🇬🇧 Liverpool, UK
8. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
9. 🇮🇹 Rome, Italy
10. 🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal

(Source: TimeOut)

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just imagine we had the recording of a 6 year old Israeli girl, desperately ringing the emergency services after Hamas militants slaughtered her relatives in a car, including 3 other kids.

Imagine we also had a prior recording of her 15 year old cousin, desperately pleading for help, before you hear her being violently murdered by Hamas gunfire.

Imagine then an Israeli ambulance sent to rescue this little girl was then blown up by Hamas militants, killing both paramedics.

What would be the response?

You know what the response would be.

It would be offered up as evidence of the supreme evil and barbarism of Hamas.

We would be told it showed they’re worse than the Nazis.

It would also be offered up as justification for the need to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth.

Every politician in the West would issue statements dripping with grief and righteous fury.

None of that has happened here.

Instead, the West continue to arm and back Israel’s mass slaughter, with occasional handwringing which its politicians know has zero impact on the behaviour of Israel.

Even as Israel commits some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century - live streamed for the world to see - these Western powers refuse to describe a single act of Israel as a war crime.

Two things.

Firstly, none of this is to downgrade the value of Israeli civilian life. The value attacked to Israel innocent civilians’ lives is correct.

It is just transparently not applied to Palestinian life.

Indeed, secondly, it is nauseating that I even have to indulge in these
“imagine if!” scenarios.

It becomes necessary because Palestinian life has been stripped of nearly all value.

In South Africa’s submission to the ICJ, this horror was described as the world’s first live streamed genocide.

I think even more than that, it’s the live streaming of the suicide of the West.

Much of the world already regarded the West’s claims of moral superiority with contempt.

Well, contempt doesn’t even begin to describe those sentiments now.

I don’t think it’s remotely appreciated how much fury at Western power - which has shrunk with every major conflict involving Muslim nations in the 21st century - is being whipped up.

Finally, this nauseating episode has answered a question I’ve always been haunted by when studying the atrocities of the past.

How did so many people who regarded themselves as humane, moderate, “normal” become so willingly complicit in self evident evil, either by not speaking out or actively cheering it on?

Well, think of the badly decomposing remains of Hind and her family, and the incinerated remains of the paramedics sent to save her, and there’s your answer.

There’s your answer!

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

This is truly a powerful show of international solidarity. Game of Thrones actors read South Africa’s case word by word because they know the western television media blocked it.

This is what artists do! They take sides in favour of the oppressed and speak truth to power! 🖤

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

A&W is the Bohemian Rhapsody of our generation #lana

[Jo Bluen @JoBluen]

greenwash. good old days. something something Hamas. multiple assertions with no basis in fact. something something fake news. 'If we are talking about Gaza, it means we are not talking about the lack of electricity or water in South Africa'. b-list zionists aren't even trying.

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

@YoniMichanie "Both Sides of the story"

Gaza Sderot

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@MTNza When entering new card information it does not let me scroll below this line to click next

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

Can’t buy @MTNza data on the app bc the payment input are misconfigured and it’s down on the @nedbanksport app for days #fail

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@MTNza

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

It’s so annoying how the popcorn in SA are ALWAYS stale 😩😩 and it’s still overpriced. Pls address this @sterkinekor @numetro

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

Waiting for the power to come back on so I can turn on my fan in order to sleep is my SAn horror story

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@FlySafair @LiftAirlineSA any deals coming up for flights from CT to durbs in December?

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@parasolseena Not this!

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

Not me trying to plan an europe trip in the midst of their cost of living crisis 😩😩😩

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

Hey @Eurail @EurostarUK if I get the electronic eurrail pass, can I buy an electronic Eurostar seat reservation with Eurrail ? I do not have time for the paper tickets as I am traveling soon

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

Hi @Eurail ! do the prices of the passes go up closer to travel dates? I am expecting to travel end of December 2022. Thanks!

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@TMBlakeEurostar This cost of living crisis is everywhere hey 🙈

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@TMBlakeEurostar hi! Is it normal for the Eurostar ticket price from london to Paris on 30 or 31 December to be triple the average price?

[Ziyaad Paruk @zeeeeps]

@EurostarUK hi! Is it normal for the Eurostar ticket price from london to Paris on 30 or 31 December to be triple the average price?