BREAKING: In a humiliating moment, the leader of Qatar’s negotiating team just completely ignored JD Vance. These negotiations are going horribly and once again the Trump Administration is making the US the laughing stock of the world.
Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.
My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.
They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.
"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."
He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.
And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.
It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.
Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.
It's a real mess, man.
That guy sucks.
how racism works: Israel wants you to consider all men (16-60) in South Lebanon potential combatants whose civilian status is doubted after they are killed, AND they want you to mourn/be outraged that four Israeli soldiers enforcing an illegal occupation in S Lebanon were killed
Israel knows Lebanon is part of the ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.
They’re threatening the global economy because they refuse to stop killing people and illegally occupying Lebanon.
JD Vance tough talk will not re-open the Strait. Neither will threats to cut off weapons. Neither will cutting off 1 or 2 shipments. The only way to avert global economic depression is no more weapons. Israel is addicted to murder. Addicts need to be completely cut off.
So if you apply this logic to the 4,000 citizens of Lebanon that Israel has killed in their invasion, you’d have to ask how the US would react to an invading force killing 235,000 Americans, many of them women and children.
You really don’t want to do this calculation for Gaza.
🇷🇺 W Moskwie zaczęto rozstawiać komunalne podnośniki koszowe z uzbrojonymi żołnierzami, którzy mają pełnić funkcję mobilnych punktów obrony przeciwlotniczej do zestrzeliwania ukraińskich dronów.
Uzbrojeni wojskowi w koszach zwykłych podnośników zostali sfotografowani i zauważeni bezpośrednio przy nowoczesnym kompleksie wieżowców „Moskwa-City” oraz w pobliżu Moskiewskiej Rafinerii Nafty w dzielnicy Kapotnia.
Niezależne media w tym The Moscow Times oraz eksperci wskazują, że drastyczne potęgowanie środków bezpieczeństwa w samej Moskwie wiąże się z paranoicznymi obawami Władimira Putina przed potencjalnym zamachem z użyciem dronów kamikadze.
Unreal: the symbolism of Trump signing a surrender agreement at Versailles in which the US agrees to pay massive reparations is just too perfect.
I wouldn't be surprised if Macron weaponized Trump's complete ignorance of history and told him something like: "Mr. President, Versailles is where the most consequential deal of the 20th century was signed. Yours deserves the same stage."
Either that or Macron stumbled into the perfect historical parallel through sheer obliviousness - which, knowing him, is actually even more likely.
Israel preparing for collapse of US-Iran deal, orders military to develop target banks
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The Israeli government has instructed its military and security establishment to continue developing target banks and preparing for future escalation, anticipating that the upcoming US-Iran peace agreement will quickly collapse. According to a report by the Israeli newspaper Maariv, officials in Tel Aviv believe the accord is unlikely to endure, despite acknowledging that Israel has not been granted full access to the finalized text.
Israeli Minister Zeev Elkin alleged that Israel was completely excluded from the negotiations and remains uncommitted to the terms. Elkin stated that because Israel is not a party to the negotiations, it could not demand to review the memorandum of understanding, adding that the document holds no binding authority over Israeli actions.
The minister also revealed that international mediators attempted to secure Israeli approval for a complete military withdrawal from Lebanon as part of the broader agreement. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly rejected the proposal outright, even as the deal calls for a halt to Israeli operations.
Israel's total GDP is $540 billion. Iran's heavily sanctioned rump economy is $437 billion
An unsanctioned and reconstructed Iran will be many times more economically & strategically important to the world than Israel
This is why Israel finds a deal intolerable
NEW: Israel asked the United States to share the contents of the U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding, but Washington refused the request.
Source: N12
💥Netanyahu began shrieking when the prosecutor confronted him with shifts in his version of events in question. Netanyahu screamed: "You've done something never before done to any public figure, you used spyware for your campaign to oust a prime minister! The ingenuousness, as if you didn't set out to catch. You violated every law!"
Chief Judge Rivka Friedman-Feldman asked to calm down, but he just slammed his fist down on the table and yelled: "I'm allowed to speak!". The judge said, "Mr. Netanyahu answered the question, let's move on," but Netanyahu kept screaming: "You'll spend all your days in court! What public figure did you do this to!? It's a disgrace! Everyone says this is a police state! Stasi! A political persecution!"
The real importance of this strike?
Trump and Netanyahu already fought over it once.
Last time, Iran threatened to kill the deal if Israel hit Beirut — and Trump forced Netanyahu to back off.
Now, at the closest moment to signing a deal with Iran, Israel has struck Beirut again.