@Aizenberg55 Notably, al-Habil was a police officer and played for the al-Shati station's volleyball team in police league tournaments. He was also responsible for taking Noa Marciano hostage. https://t.co/aqcZTgx5s3
Everyone is focused on today's shocking news of the sudden death of US senator Lindsay Graham . But another big political figure also died today: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Whether you admire him or strongly disagree with him, it is difficult to deny that he changed the trajectory of his country.
He came to power in 1995 in a bloodless palace coup against his father after years in which he had already accumulated significant influence over Qatar's military and strategic planning. His vision was clear: Qatar would no longer simply follow the lead of larger Gulf neighbors but pursue an independent foreign policy.
During his rule, Qatar evolved from a relatively quiet Gulf state into one of the world's most influential small countries. Its economy expanded dramatically on the back of natural gas, its sovereign wealth fund became a global investor, and Doha became an international diplomatic hub.
His foreign policy often seemed contradictory: Qatar hosted the largest American military base in the region while Al Jazeera fiercely criticized the Iraq War. It welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 1996 and opened trade relations with Israel, yet later became one of Hamas's principal political and financial backers. It maintained close ties with the US while preserving channels with Iran, hosted Taliban representatives, supported Syrian rebel factions, and repeatedly positioned itself as a mediator in regional conflicts.
He also founded Al Jazeera in 1996, arguably the most influential Arabic news network in history. For millions across the Arab world, it reported on issues that had long been absent from state-controlled media and fundamentally reshaped political discourse.
As a Palestinian I believe Qatar's long-term support for Hamas, combined with the platform Al Jazeera gave it, contributed to deepening the Palestinian political divide at the expense of the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. The 2009 Doha summit, where Qatar insisted on giving Hamas a prominent place during the Gaza crisis despite the ongoing Fatah-Hamas split, symbolized that approach and, in my view, reinforced the fragmentation of Palestinian politics.
You gave her a platform when her entire schtick was to humiliate and spread racist hate speech against black people.
Her antisemitism is vile, but fundamentally she is not much different now than when she was on the Daily Wire. She realized that there is a lot of money to be made in appealing to Gen Z neo-Nazis, conspiratorial wine moms, and 3rd world antisemites. Her target has just changed, but the grift has remained largely the same.
My favorite part of this tweet is @ryangrim adopting a new just-a-reporter tone as if he wasn't relentlessly bullying everyone he didn't jump to the front of the Platner train just a mere weeks ago.
There is no contradiction between July 4th and Juneteenth. All Americans should take pride in both.
July 4th celebrates the founding promise of equality and liberty for all.
Juneteenth celebrates the enforcement of our founding promise.
Both are chapters in the ever-unfolding American Revolution.
Four - five years ago, Tucker Carlson was the voice of reason, and Chris Cuomo was the laughingstock of the legacy media.
It’s unreal what we’re witnessing these days. 🤯
Ahmed Salama Hashem Abu Aisha (ID#: 802985226, age 34), an editor and photographer for the PIJ-affiliated Palestine Now news agency, was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Central Intelligence Unit in the Central Brigade. Friends and colleagues described Abu Aisha using coded references to militant status such as “advancing, not retreating” and stating he had died “on the road to Jerusalem [al-Quds]”.
Abu Aisha, who is listed on the Committee to Protect Journalists’ database of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza, was killed in a July 2025 strike. Multiple accounts of the strike indicate that Abu Aisha was sitting in his family’s backyard with his mother, and that she went inside shortly before the strike occurred. That may indicate deliberate patience to limit civilian casualties in the IDF’s targeting of Abu Aisha.
Hezbollah does not have an underground tunnel system in Southern Lebanon. There has never been any evidence of one presented.
I investigated in Lebanon for five months, spoke with all kinds of people including Hezbollah opponents, and nobody ever claimed it.
@Spugmay Pakistan has laws against non-muslim heads, don't let Ahmedi Muslims identify as Muslims, genocided Bengalis in order to save the apartheid system against Bengalis.
"Israel has repeatedly demonstrated extraordinary military superiority over Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. Yet after each conflict, it finds itself confronting many of the same threats often in a worse strategic position than before .... Military success alone is not a strategy".
Can someone explain to me why mainstream media is so afraid to touch the story about a lot of Palestinian journalists being combatants? There is certainly a lot of interest in this topic and now with PIJ and Hamas acknowledging, there is little to no doubt about their dual roles.