إن ما فعله رئيس الحكومة هو ممارسة الترهيب وتحميل وزير الدفاع مسؤولية طائفية خطيرة، بينما الرجل من واجبه أن ينقل موقف الجيش إلى السلطة التنفيذية. هي المرة الثانية التي يلجأ فيها سلام علناً إلى استخدام اللغة المذهبية بعد أن لوّح سابقاً بالشارع مقابل الشارع. أين وعود ما قبل السلطة؟
What happened in Beirut today was pure evil (and I usually refrain from using words with religious connotations). Western media won’t pick up on it, of course. Israeli leaflets basically explicitly threatened the Lebanese: if you don’t go down into the streets and mount an insurrection and disarm Hizbullah with your own hands, we shall inflict a genocide on you just like the one we inflicted on Gaza (in the flyer they called the genocide a “stunning success”).
The logic behind Hizbullah's decision to join the war:
1) First, the context: From November 2024 to March 1, 2026, Lebanon lived through what I would call “cease-fire warfare” — a new US-backed model of managed war or as Israel called it, a “dynamic truce”, which it used as cover for continued aerial strikes, assassinations, occupation of five strategic points, over 15,000 violations, 400+ killed, kidnappings, and blocked reconstruction. In short, Israel used the cease-fire to achieve what it failed to do during the actual 2 month war. The goal was not just to weaken Hizbullah militarily, but to erase the conditions that produce resistance, while a weak and servile Lebanese government that neither recognised nor defended South Lebanon looked on and tried to delegitimize and constrain Hizbullah’s resistance activity.
2) It is worth establishing from the outset that Hizbullah's decision to participate in the war was not primarily about supporting Iran strategically nor even about ideological solidarity after Khamenei’s assassination. Iran has been conducting a substantial military campaign of its own which has exceeded the expectations of its foes and friends alike, and which neither required nor was waiting on Hizbullah's participation to prosecute it. Hizbullah’s calculations were purely internal: to secure a more durable and robust ceasefire and beyond that, on emerging from any regional settlement with stronger domestic standing, having watched Saudi and other Arab leverage over Lebanese politics diminish as those actors absorb the costs of backing this military campaign against Iran.
3) Those who characterise this decision as a gamble, fundamentally misread the situation, for a gamble presupposes something of value left to lose. There was little, if anything, worth preserving after 15 months of ceasefire warfare that became an existential threat for Hizbullah and its Shia constituency, as well as for Lebanon as a whole, given Israel’s expansionist colonial ambitions. There was every indication the aggression would only deepen, with full-scale assault on Lebanon as its logical culmination. The choice confronting Hizbullah was therefore never between war and peace, but between slow annihilation within an Epstein-genocidal world order and dignified resistance with the possibility of victory.
4) Notably, in its statement yesterday, Hizbullah did not trouble itself to justify its decision domestically by invoking the considerable evidence available to it (as reported by Israeli media, Israeli cabinet discussions yesterday about expanding the war to Lebanon, 100,000 troops massed on the border, explicit invasion threats, etc.) This is likely because it has ceased to regard the current Lebanese government as a legitimate interlocutor. What it sees instead is a collaborationist , Vichy style authority it does not recognise and whose survival it does not expect, and which has in any case placed itself in violation of international law by criminalising the right of resistance to occupation.
5) The cabinet's ban today on Hizbullah's military activities will not be enforced for the simple reason that the army lacks both the will and the institutional coherence to enforce it. The army chief, Rudolf Haykal declined to act on an equivalent decision in August (tellingly, Haykal and PM Salam were reported today to have quarrelled openly over precisely this question) and there is no credible basis for expecting otherwise during active wartime, not least because any serious attempt to confront Hizbullah would risk fragmenting the army along the very fault lines such a confrontation would expose.
6) In light of the above, it becomes easier to understand Hizbullah's 15 months of restraint which should be read as a deliberate strategic patience serving several simultaneous purposes: allowing its community a period of respite and itself an opportunity to reconsolidate after a bruising war, while extending to the Lebanese state a nominal chance to resolve the occupation through diplomatic channels , not out of any genuine faith in that possibility, but in order to be seen to have exhausted it before returning to armed resistance. Hizbullah must have understood with reasonable certainty that a second and far more consequential round of war involving Iran was an inevitability, and that when it came, Iran would engage fully and without restraint, which would optimize the likelihood of, if not outright victory, denying the US and Israel one.
"Not going to keep making excuses to this occupier... Just as I'm defending my Islam from ISIS, you should defend your Judaism from Zionism. I'm going to continue to view Jews as terrorists... until they defend their religion like I defend mine"
The amazingly brave Ahed Tamimi says it like it is. Zionists try to twist her words but every single word she says is truth.
Today I want to tell you about a Syrian woman named Sulaf Fawakherji.
For more than 14 years, Sulaf—one of Syria’s most talented and respected actresses—never wavered in calling the Syrian war what it truly was: a foreign-backed terrorist project designed to blow Syria up from within.
While many Syrian artists who were openly supported by the former government suddenly “discovered” they were secret revolutionaries after the regime change, claiming they were merely “too afraid” to speak, Sulaf remained exactly what a principled Syrian should be: steadfast, dignified, and unpurchasable.
She didn’t sell out when almost everyone around her did. And believe me, in these times, there is a massive market for those willing to sell their souls to Gulf-funded studios and political patrons who cannot tolerate her honesty.
This Sunday, as Julani’s terror army unleashed yet another wave of sectarian violence against the Alawites of Homs, Sulaf raised her voice, speaking clearly about the systematic oppression and elimination of Syria’s religious and ethnic minorities under Julani’s rule. Her honesty and influence terrified the regime and its propaganda machines, many with well-documented connections to the CIA, MI6, MIT, and Qatari intelligence. They responded with a vicious smear campaign and threats, even against her children.
That is the nature of Julani’s supporters.
Anyone who rejects their terror project is marked for harassment, assault, or worse, whether inside Syria or living abroad. Many of us have already paid that price.
They call us “Assad remnants,” but we were the ones who told the truth from day one.
We told you who funded the war.
We told you who would benefit.
We told you what would happen to Syria’s diverse society if a Takfiri project took power.
And now the outcome is painfully obvious for all to see. Everything we warned about has materialized, exactly as we said it would.
I have never met Sulaf, and we’ve never spoken. But if someone asked me to define what a Syrian truly is, what dignity looks like, what principle looks like under pressure, I would simply answer:
@Sulaf_fwakherji.
عاجل| هذه الحادثة وقعت قبل نصف ساعة تقريباً، في مقهى ومطعم شبابي في رأس بيروت.
دخل #النائب_التغييري الذي لن نذكر اسمه، إلى المقهى، شرب وتجاذب اطراف الحديث مع شخص برفقته، ثم خرجا من دون ان يدفع أي منهما الفاتورة! لا سعادته ولا الشخص الذي برفقته.
للقصّة تتمة. بعد برهة قصيرة، عاد الرجل الثاني ليلتحق بندمان جالسين الى طاولة أخرى. فاقترب منه النادل مذكراً بتهذيب: لم تدفعا الفاتورة قبل قليل. فصدم اخونا وقال له: والله؟ معقول ما دفع؟ طيب أضفها إلى حسابي، مش مشكلة.
الفاتورة بسيطة طبعاً: مشروبات ساخنة لا اكثر!
نعم، دخل النائب "التغييري" (*) إلى المقهى، كما دخل "#التغيير" إلى حياتنا السياسية: شرب، وتحدث، ومضى… من دون أن يدفع!
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(*) وهيدا مش من ازنخهم. هو عند البخاري طبعاً، لكنه ليس بسماجة الصقور، ولا بعنجهيتهم!
When you don’t feel like making any sacrifices for oppressed people, whether it be your job or a relationship or a friendship, try to imagine it not as a sacrifice but as growth. Maintenance. Maintenance of your humanity. Growth into a better person. I am away from my child for long periods but I am doing it FOR him. I am trying to set an example of how to love other humans and how to do the right thing, even when it’s difficult. I don’t want him to grow up in a world where extrajudicial drone killing is normal.
Do whatever you can. Protest. Use your platform. If you can afford it, say fuck you to your job and leave if they support Israel. Block ports. Participate in acts of civil disobedience. Document.
Israel is a terrorist state and what they do to the people of Palestine is what they have in store for all of us. This cannot be the new normal.
موقع (والا) الإسرائيلي:
"وزير خارجية إسرائيل أبلغ نظيره الأميركي أن إسرائيل تستعد لإعلان ضم الضفة الغربية قريباً "!
بعض اركان الدولة وبعض رؤساء الأحزاب عندنا يعتبرون (رئيس السَلَطَة الفلسطينية) محمود عبّاس مثالهم الأعلى في "تحرير" الأرض المحتلة وفي "السلام" مع إسرائيل وفي الحربقة السياسية،
ولذلك أقول:
العوض بسلامتكم،
من كان الغُراب دليلُهُ، كانَ الخراب مصيرُهُ…
آخر خبر اليوم…
" تسلّم الموفد توم برّاك الرد الإسرائيلي على وساطته حول الجنوب،
وورد فيه وقْف الاعمال العسكرية و تسليم الاسرى و ترسيم الحدود وفقاً للشروط التالية:
* يلتزم لبنان بإعطاء اسرائيل الحق في البقاء داخل ١٤ قرية و افراغها من الأهالي كلياً و جزئياً:
* البلدات التي طالبت اسرائيل بضمّها بشكل كلي هي: العديسة، كفركلا، حولا، مركبا و عيتا الشعب،
* البلدات التي طلبت اسرائيل إقامة مواقع عسكرية دائمة في اطرافها وأحراجها هي: الخيام، رامية، يارون، عيترون، علما الشعب، الضهيرة، مروحين، مارون الراس و بليدا!!
ونُقِل عن برّاك انه لا حل سوى تنازل الطرفين للوصول لإتفاق يحمي من اي اعتداء مستقبلي و أن اسرائيل لن تتراجع عن الشروط التي وصلت اليها" …
إذا صحّ هذا الخبر، وريثما يصبح رسمياً، فربّما ستراه دولتنا إنجازاً على غرار إحتفالها أمس بإستلام السلاح في مخيّم برج البراجنة…
آخر خبر اليوم…
" تسلّم الموفد توم برّاك الرد الإسرائيلي على وساطته حول الجنوب،
وورد فيه وقْف الاعمال العسكرية و تسليم الاسرى و ترسيم الحدود وفقاً للشروط التالية:
* يلتزم لبنان بإعطاء اسرائيل الحق في البقاء داخل ١٤ قرية و افراغها من الأهالي كلياً و جزئياً:
* البلدات التي طالبت اسرائيل بضمّها بشكل كلي هي: العديسة، كفركلا، حولا، مركبا و عيتا الشعب،
* البلدات التي طلبت اسرائيل إقامة مواقع عسكرية دائمة في اطرافها وأحراجها هي: الخيام، رامية، يارون، عيترون، علما الشعب، الضهيرة، مروحين، مارون الراس و بليدا!!
ونُقِل عن برّاك انه لا حل سوى تنازل الطرفين للوصول لإتفاق يحمي من اي اعتداء مستقبلي و أن اسرائيل لن تتراجع عن الشروط التي وصلت اليها" …
إذا صحّ هذا الخبر، وريثما يصبح رسمياً، فربّما ستراه دولتنا إنجازاً على غرار إحتفالها أمس بإستلام السلاح في مخيّم برج البراجنة…
آخر خبر من الجنوب الآن:
" قوات الإحتلال الإسرائيلي تجري اشغال توسعة وتحصينات في محيط المركز المستحدث في الدواوير بين مركبا و حولا"…
هل لمجلس وزرائنا أن يناقش اليوم هذا الخبر الإحتلالي، ومِثْلُهُ بالمئات جنوباً، فيخجل من وطنه ويضع الأولويات الصحيحة في الجنوب بدلاً من أن تكون المعالجة بالمقلوب؟!