"Close sources to Hamas confirm that the group's negotiating headquarters in Doha was targeted"

Wtf is Israel doing, wtf is happening!?

EDIT 1: The IDF confirms the airstrikes in Doha

EDIT 2: Israel says it is 'still awaiting results' of the assassination attack.

EDIT 3: Israeli state media 'KANN' reports that the operation was carried out with the help of American intelligence

EDIT 4: apparently 6 people have died by now.

EDIT 5: A senior Hamas source told Al-Mayadeen that members of the Politburo survived the assassination attempt. This has not been confirmed.

EDIT 6: Joint Statement by the IDF Spokesman and the Shin Bet Spokesman:

The IDF and the Shin Bet, with the help of the Air Force, recently carried out a precision strike on the leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization.

The targeted leadership members led the terrorist organization's activities for many years and bear direct responsibility for the October 7 massacre and the war against the State of Israel.

Pre-strike measures were taken to minimize harm to civilians, including the use of precision weapons and additional intelligence information.

The IDF and the Shin Bet will continue to act decisively to destroy the Hamas terrorist organization responsible for the October 7 massacre.

EDIT 7: Israel Hayom says Israel informed BOTH the United States and Qatari authorities before attacking Hamas NEGOTIATORS in Doha.

EDIT 8: A leading Hamas source tells Qatari state media, Al-Jazeera, that the Hamas delegation led by Chairman Khalil Al-Hayya survived the Israeli assassination attempt in Doha

EDIT 9: Khalil Al-Hayya, Chairman of Hamas Politburo and leader of the delegation, is confirmed to be SAFE. Reuters now also confirms that the Hamas leadership survived the Israeli assassination attempt in Doha

Wtf....

Found in a lib sub.

It’s often a sign of uncuriousness: not interested in their own power, only of appealing to those who rule them.

Those who, after hearing a critique, ask whether something other than the criticized object would actually work, leave the analysis of what causes the “evils due to the system” uncontested, as if they agreed with the analysis. If they did agree, however, they could no longer foster any reasonable doubts about whether something other than the criticized evil were feasible. The specified causes are after all not natural necessities but based on social relations of power, which in no way have to be as they are. It’s the other way around. Those who doubt the feasibility of an alternative are not convinced that they have been presented with the real causes in the explanation of the social causes of the circumstances whose harmfulness they concede. On the contrary, they are convinced that there must be an entirely different reason than the prevailing relations of power, some not yet understood necessity that lends stability to the criticized circumstances. They thus deny the soundness of our arguments. One cannot avoid arguing about that.

Those who, after hearing a critique, demand the “positive” side likewise pretend that the critique is fine but that the practical consequences remain in the dark. That’s not honest. Every particular critique shows what alternative it is driving at. Those who, for example, ascribe contemporary evils, which we after all are not the only ones to criticize, to free competition in which the big fish always swallow the small fish — those people are pleading for fairness in competition, control of monopolies, antitrust legislation, and healthy medium-sized firms. Those who lay the blame for these abuses on modern man‘s growth mania, on its unspecific “always wanting more” — those people are pleading for salvation in doing without and reveal themselves as global ecological reformers. And when we explain that the poverty and insecure existence of wageworkers is a necessary consequence of their role as the cost factor ‘labor’ and that this role is a consequence of the one and only purpose for which production in capitalism takes place — namely turning money into more money — then everyone can hear perfectly well the call for action in it: the people who, in their entire existence, are made instruments of the growth of capital must get rid of this obstacle standing in the way of their own benefit. They must break the power of those who have the interest in profits, and win the freedom to organize their work so that it finally is about their needs and a good life for them. Everyone who takes note of our explanations understands that much of an alternative. Whether these explanations deserve approval depends on whether or not the causes of the well-known evils have been correctly determined. But those who, apart from any controversy about particular causes, turn up with the question of whether we actually had an alternative just don’t want the practical consequences they’ve sounded out, and clothe their displeasure in polite doubt as to whether the intended goal is in fact realistic.

Banger

https://thechinaacademy.org/china-tells-rubio-we-will-continue-engaging-with-central-american-countries/

Can a politician not survive in US without kowtowing to the lobby?

What’s your take on this? Am kinda confused.

“Our prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, is extremely authoritarian and egoistic. As the guardian of the nation, he failed to stand on the side of the nation’s children. Now the entire generation will come after them.”

Comrawire: Mass protests exploded in Nepal after the government banned major social media platforms. Demonstrators stormed parliament in Kathmandu, tearing through police barricades. At least 16 protesters have been killed so far.

Police unleashed a violent crackdown, firing rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons at protesters. Hospitals are overwhelmed with dozens of injured, many shot in the head and chest.

The uprising is driven by Nepal's Gen Z. Echoing Indonesia's recent revolt, protesters picked up the iconic Jolly Roger flag from the anime One Piece, turning it into a new symbol of youth resistance.

Thousands of students in school uniforms filled Kathmandu's streets with chants against corruption and censorship. Their signs read: "Unban social media" and "Shut down corruption, not free speech."

The government claims the ban targets fraud and fake news. Protesters say it's censorship aimed at silencing dissent.

Nepal lies at one of the world's most geopolitically sensitive junctions, sandwiched between two giants-India to the south and China to the north. It maintains balanced relations with most major powers, is crucial to China's Belt and Road Initiative, is one of India's largest trading partners, but also has military ties with the United States.

The most moral army in the world is at it again. It seems some IDF soldiers are bringing or taking condoms with them as they invade Gaza alongside taking lingerie. Remember though it’s blood libel to suggest they’re raping Palestinian girls and women!

Btnewsroom: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tells troops on the USS Iwo Jima warship in the Caribbean, off the coast of Puerto Rico, that their deployment is "not training." During Hegseth'a surprise visit, he continued his threats against Venezuela.

“Palestine.”
Upon my lips the name takes flight,
a tremor, a songbird’s call at dawn.
Within each letter glimmers
the hope and faith of countless hearts.

“Palestine.”
In dreams I walk the hills,
where olive trees stand in quiet ranks,
trunks gnarled with age, yet crowned in green,
their fragrance soft, intoxicating,
roots driven deep through barren stone.

Villages lie across the valleys,
white walls etched with the hand of time.
Silent winding roads,
children’s laughter rising with the dusk.

The golden desert stretches without end,
a camel drifts across the shimmering light.
The wind bears salt, and herbs, and burning sand.
At night the moon ascends,
and stars hang brilliant as lanterns.

The Mediterranean, endless blue—
its waves caress the rocks of Jaffa.
Fishing boats return, nets heavy with silver,
fishermen smiling in the glow of day.

“Palestine.”
A people unbroken, fighting still.
Amid the thunder of bombs, a red flame stirs;
in the weight of chains, their voices rise in song;
before the rifles, they stand unbowed.

Glory to the barefoot fighter,
shouldering his rifle, striking down the foe!
Glory to the nurse, unyielding,
saving lives through sleepless nights!

Glory to the journalist, fearless,
rushing where fire and smoke consume the air!
Glory to the schoolchild, defiant,
a stone raised against the iron beast!

Glory to a people heroic—
though scarred and torn in every limb,
still they rise beneath the storming sky,
like David against Goliath.

“Palestine.”
Before my body turns to dust,
I will tell my children, and their children after them:
there was, there is, and forever will be
a land—
 beautiful,
 boundless.

Oh Palestine…
Palestine.