For today, links to reports from Reuters, National Public Radio, and Substack; others are accessible by clicking on the sources’ names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM

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NEWER  South Africa files genocide case against Israel at World Court, by Wendell Roelf and Toby Sterling | Reuters  AMSTERDAM / CAPE TOWN — South Africa today asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an urgent order declaring that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Genocide Convention in its crackdown against the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. READ MORE . . .

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Israeli leaders warn that there could be a war to its north in Lebanon. Reported by Jason DeRose | NPR  Israeli leaders are beginning to talk about the possibility of opening a new front in the north in Lebanon — while the Israeli offensive in Gaza sees a rising death toll. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.

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A history of negation, by Seymour M. Hersh | seymourhersh.substack.com  I first came to Beirut more than a year after the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington, when it was clear that the men then in charge in the White House — George Bush and Dick Cheney — were going to respond to the fanatic Osama bin Laden by going to war against Saddam Hussein’s secular government in Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. I conducted . . . READ MORE . . .