Edy Semaan

Free speech over my opinion and yours. Master's in Int'l Relations + Master's in Public Relations. (RT/Follow/Like ≠ Endorsement)

[Fadah Jassem @FadahJassem]

Israel’s ‘yellow line’ raises new concerns for Lebanon
Israel’s military has drawn a new 'yellow line' in southern Lebanon - similar to that which divides Gaza - aiming to control parts of Lebanese territory and nearby waters and raising questions over access to the offshore Qana gas field.

@TheNationalNews

[Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس @kaiss_ramzi]

After more than 5.5 years, investigative judge Tarek Bitar has completed his investigation into the August 4, 2020 Beirut port explosion

70 people have been reportedly charged in the case. After years of waiting, victims & their families deserve justice.

https://t.co/hRGexTrdl4

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7

Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians. @yuval_abraham
https://t.co/Bm7P0LV2Md

[مجموعة البنك الدولي @AlbankAldawli]

"بما أنك سألت" 💬: ما الذي يجعل مجموعة البنك الدولي الخيار الأمثل على صعيد التنمية؟ مع عوائد تتمثل بما يزيد عن 50 مقابل 1، قمنا بزيادة 29 مليار دولار من رأس مال المساهمين إلى حوالي 1.5 تريليون دولار للتنمية.

شاهد لتتعرف على المزيد حول ما نُحدثه من تأثي��:

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this?

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

"There is no such thing as the West Bank - it's Judea and Samaria. There is no such thing as settlements - they're communities, they're neighborhoods, they're cities. There is no such thing as an occupation."

-Mike Huckabee, Incoming US Ambassador to Israel

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I spoke to Palestinian American Mohammad Enayah in Michigan.

Israel killed 90 members of his family in Gaza with the full backing of Biden-Harris.

He encourages people to vote for Jill Stein and says it’s outrageous the Democrats think he should vote for them after what they’ve done.

Video coming soon.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You arm a state which:

- Burns kids alive and shoots them in the head

- Routinely bombs hospitals and kills medics

- Exterminates entire families

- Deliberately starves

- Constantly expresses genocidal intent

So it’s @FranceskAlbs you demonise for opposing this obscenity?

[Global Partnership for Social Accountability @GPSA_org]

Last night, we hosted a🔑discussion on ‘CIVIC: The Civil Society & Social Innovation Alliance,’ the soon-to-be launched successor of the GPSA, to strengthen civil society p'ships!

Powerful insights from @ndidiNwuneli & more on scaling innovative solutions for global challenges:

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel banned Western journalists from reporting inside Gaza. They have killed more than 175 Palestinian journalists.

So a group of American doctors reported what’s happening from inside Gaza.

Now Israel is banning those medical workers. A plea to Biden from one of them:

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

All States and international organizations, including the @UN, have obligations under international law to bring to an end #Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied #Palestinian Territory, according to a UN independent international commission of inquiry https://t.co/0doK6GubHd

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

What’s happening in the Jabalia refugee camp can be summed up as a rapid extermination mission; we have never seen anything like this.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

There is no safe place for children in Gaza.

This shameful violence against children must end now.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

I usually air my strongest non-footballing opinions elsewhere, but this is the biggest platform I have, and some things just need to be said.

Rarely am I left speechless, but I find myself struggling to even begin, because no collection of words could even begin to capture the magnitude of horror, cruelty, and sheer atrocity of what’s going on in Gaza.

The fact that this is openly taking place in the 21st century is a grotesque reminder that despite all our supposed progress, we remain complicit in allowing the darkest corners of cruelty to thrive unchecked.

To say I’m disgusted would be the understatement of my life.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Israel has just won the war crime of the century prize: The IDF used chemical weapons on UN peacekeepers! https://t.co/R5FzMK6Qa6

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

No Western country would tolerate the killing of 100 kids in 11 days; and if this was Israel, not Lebanon, every Western country would be up in arms and it would dominate the news.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

At least 100 children have been killed in Lebanon in 11 days, and over 690 children have been injured in the last six weeks, per reports.

UNICEF and partners are providing emergency medical supplies and essential services. Join us to support. https://t.co/hOcZXfjN46