Hasnain says:

“We've seen it all before. So familiar are we with the sight of Beirut exploding, what’s another dozen dead? Another thousand casualties crippling an already crippled healthcare system. Another mother screaming in Arabic as she carries her maimed daughter from a wreckage after a mobile phone blew up in her tiny hand.

What does it matter, so long as its Arabic she’s screaming, right? If you’re marveling at the “audacity” of a terror state’s ability to indiscriminately kill, you should not be surprised when that indiscriminate violence is reciprocated. You might feel differently when the bloodied children are not black, brown, or Muslim.”

Hasnain says:

“In short, four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa. This probably isn’t a coincidence. I say that as a fiftysomething white man whose formative experiences include childhood visits to my extended family in apartheid South Africa. (My parents left Johannesburg before I was born.) We’d swim in my grandparents’ pool while the maid and her grandchildren lived in the garage. These experiences were so shocking, so different from anything I experienced growing up in Europe, that they are my sharpest childhood memories.”

Hasnain says:

This feels like one of those events that’ll change how people think of the world and warfare forever. Cue every security person changing their supply chain security threat model. unconfirmed reports indicate the devices were planted with explosives from the get go; and also seemingly confirmed reports say eg the American university in Beirut replaced all their pagers a couple of weeks ago for “regular maintenance”.

“Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl — and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack.”

Hasnain says:

The intro is somehow the least surprising and least scandalizing part of the article.

“Neom executives were summoned to the office to manage a crisis: Three workers had recently died toiling on the world’s biggest construction project.

Wayne Borg, a former Hollywood executive hired to run Neom’s media division, expressed frustration over the interruption to his evening.

“A whole bunch of people die so we’ve got to have a meeting on a Sunday night,” he said on a phone call, according to a recording heard by The Wall Street Journal. He said the project’s blue-collar workers from the Indian subcontinent had been “f—ing morons” and “that is why white people are at the top of the pecking order.” “

Hasnain says:

“Something has to change. It begins with fundamentally shifting how we value parenting, recognizing that the work of raising a child is crucial to the health and well-being of all society. This change must extend to policies, programs and individual actions designed to make this vital work easier.”

Hasnain says:

“Earlier this year, President Joe Biden said that “if you harm an American, we will respond.” Yet the Biden Administration has not even condemned my attack. The same was true when two weeks prior Americans were bludgeoned by Israeli settlers. And when a Palestinian American teen was shot and killed in the West Bank in January. And when a Palestinian American boy was shot and falsely imprisoned by Israeli forces last December.

A week ago, meters from where I was shot, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American activist, was killed at the same weekly protest in Beita. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called her killing “unprovoked and unjustified” after the Israeli military said she was “highly likely” hit by IDF stray fire. Biden and Harris both faced criticism in the days after her death for failing to call Eygi’s family, who say they are “deeply offended by the suggestion” that her killing was “unintentional.” They have called for an independent U.S. investigation. None have been announced.

Had the Biden Administration taken my shooting seriously, Ayşenur might still be with us today.”

Hasnain says:

““At least the Brits are willing to call it like it is, which leadership here appears unwilling to do despite being presented with all the same information about Israeli IHL violations,” said a third U.S. official familiar with the discussions. “Leadership misses the fact that if we showed the same moral and legal clarity as the U.K. … it would give us more leverage for a cease-fire deal, not less.””

Hasnain says:

“CRAIG CORRIE: Well, of course, we did call for a U.S. investigation into Rachel’s killing. Let me say that what we’re hearing today, it’s upsetting to our family to hear our State Department again, and I would expect them to say, that they are trying to find out the facts and looking to Israel for that. Israel does not do investigations; they do cover-ups. So, let’s face it, nothing’s going to come out of there that’s going to help these citizens or whoever may be killed in the future. That’s what we’re trying to stop. Our family worked for an investigation into Rachel’s killing, and we wanted some consequences out of that. And we hoped — even though we didn’t know the names of the people that would be killed in the future, we hoped that that would stop and it would not happen.

I think, at this point, yes, U.S. has to do an investigation, but there needs to be consequences. As Jonathan pointed out, these are American weapons that are being used. That’s against U.S. law, and it should be stopped. I know from working with members of Congress and their staff, working with the State Department, that under the Leahy Law, usually they’re asking for proof that it was a U.S. weapon. If I write a check, I don’t need proof about what’s going wrong. I need people to cooperate and determine that it’s not our money that’s being used that way. Israel does not do that, to my knowledge. So, we also need to look for international help here. I think that the U.N., the International Criminal Courts, they’re places that need to get involved. But we’re just sick and tired of hearing platitudes from the State Department. And these are people we’ve met. We have met with Antony Blinken before he became secretary of state. He’s a decent person. But there needs to be consequences, and there needs to be consequences that are enforced by the entire U.S. government and the international community.”

Hasnain says:

“Researchers on political extremism have highlighted a surge in violence targeting Palestinians since Oct. 7, including the murder of a 6-year-old boy near Chicago and a shooting that wounded three college students in Vermont, both of which were motivated by the victims’ heritage, authorities said. Advocacy groups have also documented waves of harassment and vandalism targeting Muslims and Jews at their homes, businesses and places of worship.”

Hasnain says:

“Coincidentally, there was an issue created just today on the Zig repository to add a select(2) wrapper to the standard library motivated by the /dev/tty limitation on macOS. It links to this wonderful blog post which I would have loved to find sooner.”