Jakub Szántó

And here it is! The frontal attack on @CzechTV and @CRozhlas is starting. ČT reporter Petr Vašek: “According to current debates within the government coalition, it really looks like the government coalition intends to next week propose the abolishment of fees for ČT and ČRo and a brutal cut of their budgets by 15 to 20. (translated)

🚨🚨 Alarming study by B'Tselem on the accelerated colonization of the West Bank. Since Netanyahu took office in December 2022, the occupation has expanded by 18% of the territory, 1,087 Palestinians have been killed including 242 children, and 200 new settlements and outposts have been established. (translated)

Ed Sheeran is facing the danger that local organizers will not allow his opening act to perform, and consequently, his own performance as well. Rapper Macklemore has enjoyed performing in a mask mocking Jews and shouting pro-Palestinian slogans. Sheeran has not commented on the excesses. (translated)

Silent revolution in the Golan Heights. Until October 7, the vast majority of Druze under Israeli rule identified as Syrians. After the attack by Hezbollah, which killed 12 children, and the massacre of 2,000 Druze by Damascus government forces, 40% of them applied for Israeli citizenship. (translated)

There has been an outpouring of warnings about AI and its misuse in the past week. A disturbing, informed, and comprehensible perspective was offered by @JanRomportl in the podcast Za @HorizontCT24. To date, it has already attracted more than 280 thousand people. It is available to other interested parties here: https://t.co/5X9mTaMpt5 https://t.co/wr9EGqeF0j (translated)

While the Houthis threatening specifically Saudi tankers occupy Bab al-Mandab and launch missiles and drones at Saudi targets, Riyadh is focused on a few hundred meters long provocative walk of Netanyahu from the Israeli part of Mount Hermon/Jabal al-Sheikh to the Syrian peak. (translated)

A new public opinion poll in Palestine, conducted by the Jerusalem Media & Communications Center (JMCC) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, shows: * 55.8% of respondents support peace negotiations as the "best way to achieve the goals of the Palestinian people, which is to end... (translated)

The UK will be joined by Canada and France in announcing a ban on imports of goods from Israeli settlements. The economic impact is minimal, the political one is enormous, the change in the course of the current Israeli government is zero. Setting aside the practicality of the step, how will these three countries react to other wrongdoings in the world? (translated)

Nineteen years have passed since the Israeli airstrike on the super-secret nuclear reactor of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The project built with the help of North Korea produced 26 tons of highly enriched uranium. Its goal was a nuclear weapon. After Saddam Hussein, Assad became the next bloody... (translated)

The Houthi offensive against government forces supported by Saudi Arabia is failing. In the last three days, on the contrary, the army has managed to push back Iranian-backed Islamists from positions they have held for years. Reports are coming in of hundreds of dead Houthis. (translated)

Hamas claimed another of its "martyrs" and revealed two new names that they posed as journalists. The number of fake reporters, who are actually armed members of the terrorist movement, has reached a neat hundred. Their names are gradually disappearing from international journalist lists. (translated)

For nearly twenty years, Gaza received more aid and development resources per capita than any other conflict zone in the world; yet extensive networks of non-governmental organizations and charities ultimately helped Hamas consolidate its power, culminating in the catastrophe of the 7th. (translated)