Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way. I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: londoncentric.media

No mention of victim or perpetrator. As if it were totally random & we've no idea who was behind it or who was targeted & must simply proceed with caution.

Insane that we have to state the obvious: Hezbollah-pager carriers are often among civilians

Most innovative assault since the Trojan Horse?

Amid the gloom, some wonderful news | Since passage of Violence Against Women Act in 1993, domestic violence in the US has fallen by two-thirds (67%) and rape & sexual assault by 56%: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

Oops | "The phone in your hands, in your wife’s hands, in your children’s hands is the agent," said Nasrallah, urging Hezbollah to embrace pagers. “Bury it. Put it in an iron box and lock it.” Israel saw an opportunity: nytimes.com/2024/09/18/wor… Sheera Frenkel Ronen Bergman hwaida saad

Are they "openly engaged in war"? Many informed observers still say no. Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 for instance, sees this attack as possible prelude to war: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Russia. North Korea. Iran. To name a few that are undoubtedly in the discussion.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that due to governmental dysfunction is forced to also act as a political party & massive social organization. Saying that it runs schools and hospitals is not whitewashing, just the truth. It's also murderous and criminal.

Why Ukraine’s dark 20th century history is so important to understand its resilience and determination today? Discussing on CNN my new novel 📚No Country for Love 📚 The book is based on my own family’s survival at the time when Ukraine was probably the deadliest place on Earth.

When you've got foes this ignorant, who needs friends?

I've been wondering precisely this.

So the credit for this brilliant assault goes to Hassan Nasrallah? Very generous of you. Tho Mossad might disagree.

Ingenious, no doubt. Still a terror attack.

Too true.

"People in war-torn countries must only be experiencing suffering or it's all lies" is one of the dumbest misconceptions, and mainly reveals that its proponents have never been to war zones.

Perhaps no city on the planet is more phoenix-like than the home of the Phoenicians, Beirut -- which has rebuilt on top of ruins half a dozen times over several millennia.

Fascinating definition of "unprovoked". I'd hate to see what provoked looks like.

Warning for all consumers of tech, no?