
Tom Eaton
@tomeatonsa
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12-07-2013 21:18:59
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I met Pravin Gordhan for the first time in early 2014 when he visited our (Business Day) newsroom with Jabulani Sikhakhane , I think. Over the years our relationship grew into a combination of agreements and disputes, but always respectfully so. There were two things I admired about PG:






SCOOP: I reviewed three sets of internal email exchanges between senior Biden administration officials who were warned just DAYS after Oct. 7 that Israel was risking committing war crimes by ordering more than a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate. There’s more: 1/X



A reminder: It was Jared Kushner and the Trump administration who gave The Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi to the Saudis, dismembered with a bone saw and liquefied in sulfuric acid. But in a contest between Harris and Trump, Jeff Bezos can't make an endorsement.


In 1971, after the Justice Dept enjoined The NY Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers, my father gave them to the The Washington Post. It was ultimately the call of Katherine Graham, publisher/owner. She was warned that her paper’s survival was on the line. She didn’t blink.




