It has long been obvious, even to a drover’s dog. Donald Trump stands an excellent chance of winning the 2024 republican nomination and, provided it is not rigged, the election.
A major factor has been the rank and file’s assumption that the best guide is his past performance.
They rightly believe that under President Trump, America will be great again and the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran-Pyongyang axis, and its terrorist clients, will again be on their very best behaviour.
They also believe the current disasters at home and abroad would not have occurred under him, including the Tehran-funded abomination in Gaza, to which I return below.
All this long escaped the mainstream commentariat and other elites, including their echo chambers in the West.
It even escaped the intelligence community which informs the Albanese government’s diplomatic relations with our most important ally.
After spraying the media for years with his embarrassingly infantile abuse of Donald Trump, Ambassador Kevin Rudd is, according to the Australian’s Cameron Stewart, in a ‘rush to mend fences’.
He should be in a rush to resign before the Albanese government is forced to revoke that foolish appointment.
The elites were unanimous that their consensus thought bubble that Donald Trump is ‘crazy’ and a ‘threat to democracy’ would prevail with American voters.
Although they have been proven wrong, this encouraged the Democrats to weaponise the FBI, the Department of Justice and other authorities, aided by politicians posing as judges, to use the legal process against Trump as if the US had been reduced to the status of a banana republic.
They are now only beginning to realise this was akin to shooting themselves in the foot. The more the Democrats engage in such un-American behaviour, the more the rank and file rally to Trump.
Meanwhile, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The ICJ, misrepresented in the mainstream as a ‘World Court’, is yet another arm of the octopus-like UN, sharing all the weaknesses of an organisation most of whose members are run by corrupt despots.
The ruling is based on a series of fundamental errors that a law student could spot.
The case centres on the Genocide Convention but without the slightest legal or evidence-based justification. It was hypocritically brought by the South African government, which openly tolerating the raced-based genocidal murders of its white farmers presumably as in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe clearly forfeits any claim to legal standing to sue.
The case was obviously brought to grab headlines and support pro-Hamas demonstrations in the West, especially where education has been replaced by Marxist (i.e., new communist) indoctrination.
The majority naively ignored the need for evidence, even prima facie or plausible, that genocide had occurred, and that Israel possessed the requisite genocidal intention.
One of the most moving statements was by the additional (ad hoc) Israeli judge, a retired Supreme Court judge, Aharon Barak. No conservative, Barak was known as a judicial activist.
‘Genocide’, he writes in his judgement, ‘is more than just a word for me, it represents calculated destruction, and human behaviour at its very worst.’ His were not empty words.
As a little boy, Barak had been smuggled out of a ghetto in a sack, one of the few who survived the Nazi’s liquidation of 95 per cent of Lithuania’s Jews.
Reaffirming Israel’s commitment to international humanitarian law, he gave one telling example. In the midst of an earlier military operation in Gaza, Israel’s Supreme Court even ordered the army to repair water pipes damaged by army tanks while the operation was still ongoing.
Sitting on that very court, Barak had previously written that, ‘Every Israeli soldier carries with him or her in their backpack, the rules of international law.’
Those with even the merest soupçon of knowledge about warfare, especially that waged by the US and UK in the second world war, know how extremely meticulous the Israelis are in applying standards significantly, indeed uniquely, higher than the minimum required by international humanitarian law.
Much of what is happening in Gaza today is the direct result of Hamas deliberately endangering civilian life by the placement of their warlike activities.
Given its location, Gaza should be a flourishing jewel rather than its degraded criminally corrupt status today.
Although Barak supported some of the ICJ’s provisional measures as reminders of essential international obligations, which he says are in the Israeli military’s DNA, he regretted that the Court did not order South Africa to take measures to protect the rights of hostages and facilitate their release.
As to South Africa’s request the court order the end of the military operation, he says that if this had been granted, Israel would have been left defenceless in the face of a brutal assault, unable to fulfil its most basic duties to its citizens and denied the ability to fight even in accordance with international law.
Given that a final decision is unlikely to be reached for years, and the inability of the court to enforce its rulings, of all the fifteen elected judges, the judgment written by the Ugandan judge, Julia Sebutinde, is by far the wisest.
Finding no evidence of genocidal intention, she finds that in any event this is not even a legal dispute susceptible of judicial settlement. It is ‘a political one to be solved by diplomatic or negotiated settlement in good faith’.
In good faith?
For a corrupt terrorist organisation which has threatened to repeat the crimes of 7 October ‘over and over’, this is unattainable.
Hamas recalls the scorpion in the fable who stings the frog who agreed to carry him across the river.
This was on the promise he would not doom them both by stinging the frog.
But when they reach the middle of the river, the scorpion stings the frog.
When the dying frog asks why he did that and doomed them both, the scorpion replies, ‘It is in my nature.’
Hamas is that scorpion.
An agent of the Devil himself, Hamas can only do evil.
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