Ali Merhi

Cedar does not bow easily, and the olive never forgets how to grow again 🇱🇧

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@riemannsurface1 @FirasMaksad @nytimes That is always the case with him and everyone in their team. They live in a bubble

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@just4knicks @Ibrahim_Zabad @thebeirutbanyan Ask Syria how it's going for them

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@Rainmaker1973 That is drugs... Nothing else 😂

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

Then you remember: the people running it aren't like the fans. Climbing to the top usually requires a level of ruthlessness most decent people simply won't stoop to. And it's the small minority willing to sink lowest who end up ruling the rest of us.

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

Watching fans from every corner of the world share the same stands, sing the same songs, and celebrate the same moments this World Cup, you can't help but wonder why the world itself can't get along like this.

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@Allahuakbr99 Lebanese in Lebanon expressing themselves and responding to the gaslighting happening. There, fixed it for you

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@lebanesesami But we do say "Someone put something in my drink" when we get drunk 😂

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@herabruce "The winner dictates, the loser accepts." That's the Genghis Khan doctrine, not international law. Funny, because war criminal Netanyahu made the same argument recently. Is that where you draw inspiration? Let Isreal define its border with Lebanon first.

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@lebanesesami Lebanon First? 😂😂😂 Our banks would like a word. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Stop gaslighting people. Not a single government official genuinely believes or follows that slogan. Tearing down the signs is the natural reaction to years of hypocrisy

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@EvanWritesOnX Why is Israel still occupying parts of Syria then? And what exactly will pressure it to withdraw from Lebanon after disarmament? Trusting Israel, given its history and the impunity it enjoys, is delusional. Stop gaslighting people. This isn't peace, it's surrender.

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@DanielBShapiro There can be no discussion of Lebanese sovereignty while Israel occupies Lebanese territory and refuses to define its border with Lebanon. Withdrawal first. Borders second. Everything else comes after

[INTERIOR PORN @INTERIORPORN1]

this is the best adult money purchase EVER

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@GueouMargalite @MLP_officiel Ask Syria how that went

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@lynnharfoush @nationalbloc_lb Very qualified negotiators indeed. Decades of success have clearly prepared them for this moment 😅. Lebanon deserves better

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@michelhelou_lb No one is negotiating on Lebanon's behalf. A ceasefire and withdrawal don't prevent the Lebanese state from negotiating its own future. And if the party disappears tomorrow, does corruption in Lebanon disappear with it? Let's be serious

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Tolkien’s greatest insight was that evil loses because it cannot imagine goodness.

That makes The Lord of the Rings far deeper than a simple story of heroes and monsters. Sauron is stronger than his enemies in armies, weapons, fear, and force, yet he makes one fatal mistake: he assumes everyone else wants power the way he does.

He cannot imagine someone carrying the Ring all the way to Mordor just to destroy it.

That is why Frodo’s mission works. Gandalf, Aragorn, Galadriel, and Elrond understand the temptation of evil, so they refuse the Ring.

Sauron understands only domination, so he watches the wrong places, fears the wrong enemies, and misses the small, broken hobbit walking toward the fire.

Even Gollum matters because Tolkien refuses to make the moral world too clean. He is dangerous, twisted, and ruined by the Ring, but he still receives pity. Bilbo spares him. Frodo pities him. Sam struggles with him. In the end, the creature everyone wanted to dismiss becomes part of the world’s rescue.

And that is why Tolkien still hits so hard.

Victory in Middle-earth comes with wounds. The Shire is saved, but Frodo cannot fully return to it. The Ring is destroyed, but beauty fades with it. Evil falls, but the cost remains.

Tolkien understood something most modern stories forget: goodness wins when it refuses to become what it is fighting.

And that is the age old lesson that many nations have yet to learn in the modern day.

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[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@FirasMaksad Reminder: Israel has a long history of violating agreements and ceasefires.

And Iran did not refuse anything, because it is not negotiating on Lebanon’s behalf. It was the Lebanese government that rejected the ceasefire proposal

[Nandi 🤍💜🤍 @pallnandi]

Watching a heron use bread to catch fish has me questioning reality.

[Ali Merhi @Ali_M_Merhi]

@arav_m @ProfessorPape @Moneylifers Sovereignty starts with borders. How can a nation claim one while refusing to define the other?