Judges attend a hearing at The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the ongoing case regarding Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, in The Hague, Netherlands, 28 Apr 2025. (File Photo: Reuters)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearings into Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The ICJ, which sits in The Hague and is the UN’s top court, is expected to hear from 40 States and four international organizations in proceedings slated to last all week. Link: The head of OCHA testified: “Today people are not surviving in Gaza, those that aren’t being killed with bombs and bullets are slowly dying.” Charges against Israel for apartheid were previously filed against Israel at the ICJ.
A woman mourns her sister, killed in an Israeli strike in Rafah on 21 Oct 2023. How many corpses are in this photo? (Photo: AFP)
Palestinian children in Gaza starving for food. (Photo: al-Jazeera)
Chutzpah
Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Photo: Amir Cohen / Reuters)
During the hearings at the Hague, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterated his call for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza and for Syria to be dismembered as a state.
“With God’s help and the valor of your comrades-in-arms who continue to fight even now, we will end this campaign when Syria is dismantled, Hezbollah is severely beaten, Iran is stripped of its nuclear threat, Gaza is cleansed of Hamas and hundreds of thousands of Gazans are on their way out of it to other countries,” Smotrich said during a speech in the occupied West Bank.
Look at the expressions on the faces of the State Dept attorneys below at the Hague pathetically defending Israel and genocide. That’s attorney Joshua Simmons looking mortified on the left (Bio: https://www.state.gov/biographies/joshua-simmons/). The other State Dept lawyer on the right can’t even look at the photographer.
US State Dept attorney Joshua Simmons (L); unidentified attorney (R) (Photo: Sondos Asem / MEE)
AIPAC Deflections and Distractions
The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is committed to aligning US foreign policy with that of Israel’s. To that effect, AIPAC donates billions of dollars to candidates and issues talking points. Many members of the Democratic Party repeat the following mantras of Arab-Americans: “See? They should have voted for Kamala!” or “Is this better?” or “Serves them right for not voting for Kamala Harris!”
Did this child amputee in Gaza vote in the US election on 5 Nov 2024?
Palestinian child, a victim of IDF attacks in Gaza (Photo: Reuters)
The other talking point is that the Palestinians and Muslims are all “terrorists.”
As the 19th-century Sioux Nation warriors fought against America’s westward expansion, and the 19th-century Central Asian Kazakhs resisted Russia’s eastward expansion, so too are 21st century Palestinian guerrillas fighting back unrelentless encroachment and ethnic cleansing.
“You’ll pardon me if I fight back with the only weapons I have while my people are being exterminated.”
Signed,
The Resistance Fighters of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Censorship
The other tactic AIPAC and Zionists use is attacking Israel’s critics as antisemitic. US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an Ashkenazi Jew, rebuked Benjamin Netanyahu when he said:
“No, Mr. Netanyahu. It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children. ” (25 April 2024)
As you have read here on Coriolanus, pro-Palestinian activists in the US have been detained by ICE for deportation and the Trumpf junta has threatened to slash funding for universities with an alleged antisemitic agenda.
Scapegoating Palestinians and Arab-Americans for their horrible plight is an Islamophobic AIPAC tactic to focus animus on them for the Democratic Party loss in Nov 2024 and to distract from the ethnic cleansing in Israel. The real reason Democrats lost is because 6,265,888 antiwar progressives simply stayed home rather than vote for Dotard Trumpf or Jill Stein. American Muslims make up 1.3% of the US population at between 2.1m to 3.7m people (and not all of them are of voting age). 21% of them voted for Trumpf; 20% voted for Kamala Harris; 59% voted for Jill Stein. 25% of the Arab-American population is of Lebanese descent, a country Israel destroyed last year. Meanwhile in the US, kapos Bill Maher and Joe Rogaine will continue making a fortune propagating distracting messages to the American public while the hardworking American taxpayer funds both ethnic cleansing in Israel, as well as their top-rated universal healthcare system.
Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II. There are many in the Democratic Party that vote Democratic in US elections, but support AIPAC and the Likud Party in Israel. Young David Hogg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) pose a threat to members of that calcified status quo, like Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
AIPAC’s goal is to ensure the US and other countries never recognize the State of Palestine. This powerful lobbying group already succeeded in getting the US to name Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to the utter dismay and shock of millions of Muslims worldwide, as well as the beleaguered Palestinians.
Below, see how much Palestinian land has been lost to Israelis, much like the Apaches and Navajo tribes of 19th-century America:
Two dibbuks sealing the fate of millions of innocent people.
An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC remains active for Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes. An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Israel-Public-Affairs-Committee
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162656
Israel Ironically Requests International Aid for Wildfires
View of a massive wildfire near Mevo Horon, 30 Apr 2025. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90 )
The IDF is helping the fire service and police combat wildfires in Jerusalem hills as towns are evacuated and the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road remains closed in what is Israel’s largest fire ever. Dozens have suffered smoke inhalation and burns, but nobody has been seriously hurt yet. Some firefighters received medical treatment for minor injuries.
Ironically, while Israel is conducting an apocalypse on the Palestinians, FM Gideon Sa’ar confirmed that Israel had requested immediate international help from neighboring countries, including Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Croatia, and Bulgaria for their apocalyptic fire. The irony is supremely priceless that Israel has requested international help while denying international help for the Gazans.
Islamophobia Rampant in US
Mob of Lunatic Brooklyn Jews Pursue Terrified Woman
A police officer protects a woman from a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who pursue them in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY. (Photo: AP)
A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at, and pelted with objects by a mob of maniacal Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister, ethnic cleanser Itamar Ben-Gvir. “They were shouting at me, threatening to rape me, chanting death to Arabs.’ I thought the police would protect me from the mob, but they did nothing to intervene,” the victim said. A lone police officer tried to escort her to safety. The two were followed for blocks by hundreds of men and boys jeering in Hebrew and English. Watch below:
Maniac Charges Podium in Texas
Extremist congressional candidate Valentina Gomez charged a podium at a Texas Capitol Muslim Event and screamed about pedophilia. “Islam is the religion of rape, incest and pedophilia where they bow down to a stupid rock and a false prophet. I will never let sharia law take over Texas.” In the replies to her gloating post, fellow far-right extremists like Laura Loomer praised her actions. Gomez has appeared here several times for hurling anti-gay slurs during her failed campaign for Missouri secretary of state. Her brother is currently suing Jersey City mayor and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Steven Fulop after being fired for contributing to Gomez’s Missouri campaign. Watch the horror unfold below:
Christian Islamophobes
The US Contamination Began in Israel
As you read here on Coriolanus last year, vicious religious Israeli Settlers in Hebron attacked IDF Major-General Avi Bluth while calling him a ‘traitor’ in a scene similar to this:
Mental Illness is Growing in the Western World
Some scholars say belonging to certain religious groups is tantamount to being in a cult. Other academics simply dismiss religion as menticide. Either way, mental illness in the West has been increasing, as will incidents of Islamophobic or xenophobic hatred. The state of Pennsylvania alone recently produced these examples of mental illness below.
Thomas Matthew Crooks who tried to kill presidential candidate Trumpf in Butler, PA on 13 July 2024.
Cody Balmer burned down the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion earlier this year.
US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) official portrait. (Photo: https://ballotpedia.org/John_Fetterman)
US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) dressed in shorts and a hooded sweatshirt for Trumpf’s inauguration on 20 Jan 2025.
Source:
Mob chased Brooklyn woman after mistaking her for protester at speech by Israeli security minister
UK Police Share Protestor Information With Israel
Tens of thousands rally in central London to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza on 3 Aug 2024 (MEE)
The UK government shared contact details of police and prosecutors with the Israeli embassy during an investigation into protests at an arms factory raising concerns about foreign interference. Last year 18 Palestine Action activists were arrested under the Terrorism Act after a protest at an Israeli weapons factory. Parliamentarians asked: “Why, for example, did the Attorney General’s Office provide the contact details for the Crown Prosecution Service, an independent body, to the Israelis? What further exchanges followed and was there discussions about ongoing criminal prosecutions? “ Dr Shahd Hammouri, an academic and international lawyer bluntly said: “[this] indicates foreign influence.”
Note that RAF jets recently joined USAF missions against the starving Houthis in Yemen on behalf of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman.
The Trumpf junta is doing today what the UK began last year against Pro-Palestinian volunteers. Like the US, the UK also has a powerful, insidious version of AIPAC:
Sources:
DOGE Gains Access to Department of Energy Nuclear Secrets
The worst person in the world.
Two members of Felon Musk’s DOGE were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons. Luke Farritor (23) a former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada (35), a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information. A spokesperson for the Department of Energy initially denied that Farritor and Ramada had accessed the networks.’ Two DOE employees said they directly saw Ramada and Farritor’s names in the directories of the networks.
American national security is in complete disarray as you will read more about below. NATO and other Western countries would be wise to strengthen their own defenses and increase their intelligence collection and counterintellligence capabilities.
Endnote: The US Congress released a voluminous report detailing that Felon Musk and his companies faced at least $2.37 billion in potential federal fines and penalties the day President Trump took office, according to the linked congressional report that highlights the possible conflicts of interest posed by the thieving oligarch’s cost-cutting work in government.
Sources:
List of DOGE thieves: https://www.newsweek.com/doge-list-staff-revealed-2029965
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5378684/doge-energy-department-nuclear-secrets-access
US National Security Update
FBI Heading in Completely Wrong Direction
The two most unqualified people to ever direct the FBI. Director Kash Patel (L) and Deputy Director Dan Bongino
Polygraphs Used to Detect Leakers
The Trumpf junta is ramping up investigations into alleged leaks to the news media, in some cases using polygraph tests that current and former officials say are creating a climate of fear and intimidation. At D/FBI Kash Patel’s direction, the bureau in recent weeks has begun administering polygraph tests to identify the source of information leaks. “People are trying to keep their heads down,” said one former FBI Senior SA. “Morale’s in the toilet. … When you see people who are being investigated, or names [of agents who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot cases] being passed over to the DOJ, it’s what the f”?” Below: The two most unworthiest creatures to ever direct the FBI.
Retribution and Reassignments
FBI agents and employees take a knee with demonstrators on Pennsylvania Avenue on 4 Jun 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo © Jose Luis Magana /AP / File)
The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling with demonstrators during a 2020 protest in the wake of police killing of George Floyd. The reassignments, viewed as demotions by many inside the FBI, come nearly five years after the episode that ignited controversy inside the bureau. FBI officials offered no explanation for changing the roles to less coveted positions for the agents.
The targeting of the kneelers is part of a broader effort by the new FBI leaders to make good on promises to root out what Dotard Trumpf has called “woke” and politicized elements inside the agency. A former FBI official said punishing agents involved in the incident now raises concern that the bureau is bypassing its regular disciplinary process, which can take months and even more than a year to review incidents.
“This notion that the bureau would go after these people, it’s just disgusting,” the former official said.
After quickly ousting senior FBI leaders, the Justice Department has said it is reviewing the conduct of more than 1,500 agents associated with cases that have found disfavor in the new Trumpf era, including investigations of the president and his allies. FBI agents who executed the search warrant on Trumpf’s Mar-a-Lago home and who worked on 6 Jan 2021-related cases have been bracing for possible retribution.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz Resigns
US national security advisor Mike Waltz was spotted appearing to look at the Signal messaging app on his phone while attending a cabinet meeting. (Photo: Reuters /Evelyn Hockstein)
After being embroiled in the infamous Signalgate scandal, Mike Waltz resigned as National Security Advisor. Above, you can see him using his Smartphone during a cabinet meeting, a breach not only of protocol, but OPSEC (operational security). Waltz’s reward for his amateurism is a nomination to be the US Ambassador to the UN, a Senate-confirmed position. Worse, his replacement appears to be Steve Witkoff, a geriatric oligarch and friend of Dotard Trumpf. Witkoff, a real estate mogul, has zero experience in national security and was tapped by Trumpf to be his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, alongside retired US Army Lieutenant-General Keith Kellogg.
This would be inter-galactically stupid to make Steve Witkoff NATSEC Advisor. The most qualified satellite in Trumpf’s ever-shrinking orbit for the job is General Kellogg who previously served as the National Security Advisor to VPOTUS Mike Pence. Trumpf should keep Steve Witless as an envoy because that position really means glorified messenger, which is what the alte cocker is good for.
Sources:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article305477131.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/28/leak-polygraph-fbi-justice-odni-dhs/
Mother Duck Takes Ducklings to Sleep With Kittens
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