Syrian TV anchor Safaa Ahmed killed in precision strike on Damascus by Israeli air force.
In a more innocent age, targeting journalists was considered a war crime.
Putin and Xi are brain-rotted Boomers, but I'm sure their staff are taking notes...
Discussion
So Israel is doing its best to start ww3?
Lest we forget, it was also exposing the collateral murder of journalists, by US forces in the Middle East that made WikiLeaks famous. Julian Assange paid the price, in years of exile and legal intimidation that would have killed many (remember The Internet's Own Boy AaronSw, RIP). But instead it just unravelled his mind and drove him into the arms of anti-Americans (as it did to Kim DotCom).
If the demonization of journalists is the last refuge of crypto-fascists, then murdering them is surely crossing the rubicon into full blown fascism. As in the 1930s, the people of the world cannot afford to ignore the growth of fascism. In all its many forms.
Neither can we afford to blindly let the powerful tell us who the "real" fascists are, with their struggle sessions and their Two Minutes Hate. As Brian reminds us in The Life of Brian, we've all got to work it out for ourselves. Because as Mrs Cohen points out, anyone we might want to do it for us is not the Messiah, just a very naughty boy.