Fausto Scarinzi

Researcher. PhD in IR and Strategic Studies, University of Reading (UK). All views are personal. RT not necessarily endorsement. @faustoscarinzi.bsky.social

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

I am pleased to share that my book "Counterinsurgency, Military Occupations, and Civilian Targeting: Explaining Indiscriminate Violence in Expeditionary Campaigns" will be published by @routledgebooks (Cass Military Studies) in early April 2026.

[Responsible Statecraft @RStatecraft]

NEW @tparsi : As Iran strikes Israel on behalf of Lebanon, the battle lines have shifted once again. The question is, will Trump continue to defer to Israel and maintain decades long status quo in the region? https://t.co/UZVCuWpnCX

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

You demand global sympathy for an attack on Israeli Jews, but have nothing to say about the 7-month-old Palestinian baby your soldiers murdered in Hebron.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

They shoot babies: IDF jargon masks a child's killing | Editorial https://t.co/c7AUio4Co4

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Charity admits no delay. Our responsibility before those in need makes every encounter with others a unique and unrepeatable moment of grace for love, not to be missed or postponed. The love of Christ impels us toward our brothers and sisters, and the charity and care with which we respond are the test of our faith. #ApostolicJourney #Spain

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

Except that ordinary Israeli citizens agree with Ben-Gvir's ideas and methods.
It's disappointing to see @TheEconomist failing to highlight such an obvious reality...

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The abuse taking place in Israel’s prisons is the ultimate responsibility of Israel’s national-security minister—and of Binyamin Netanyahu https://t.co/0qrztpVd3S

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

Things won't happen so quickly, but that is the road to take.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

The big question is: are Israel's allies willing and able to restrain Israel?

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

Israel's military escalation in Lebanon has killed and displaced civilians, destroyed infrastructure, and eroded space for diplomacy. It must end.

Hizballah must end attacks on Israel and disarm.

All sides must respect the ceasefire and engage with negotiations in good faith.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Among the Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset who attended the Israel Day Parade in New York City were:

Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich: “No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.”

Israel’s Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu: “Israel should bomb humanitarian aid and starve Gazans.” He has also previously suggested considering a nuclear strike on Gaza.

[Le Monde diplomatique in English @LMdiplo]

Palestine was in no way a desert, nor were its people primitive nomads. While these illusions were propagated to make the Zionist project more palatable to Jews in Europe and beyond, Zionist thinkers were well aware that there was an indigenous population.
https://t.co/ehx2isqgmL

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A former senior colleague of Raffi Berg, now the BBC's Middle East online editor, forensically analyses his output as a BBC writer.

It shows a consistent pattern of humanising Israeli soldiers and settlers while dehumanising Palestinians, and burying information that might place Israel in a bad light – talents that seem to have led to his promotion to BBC editor.

Martin Asser concludes: "The world Berg presents in his early BBC features is a rich source of misinformation and / or disinformation."

This article should prove useful to Owen Jones' legal team as they fight Berg's defamation case. Jones cited 13 BBC journalists who accused Berg of skewing the corporation's coverage to make Israel look good.

More here: https://t.co/IcsHVGiCNw

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

“Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed.” In an interview with 1843, a former Israeli soldier recounts his time serving in Gaza https://t.co/OlNXtoHYy4

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In Stuttgart, supporters of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv openly chanted in the streets in German:

“You Arab whores…
We will kill you, drink your blood, & rape your girls.”

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Autocrats are especially loath to admit mistakes, because their hold on power typically rests on cults of personality and sustaining the illusion that they are infallible, writes columnist @stephenwalt. https://t.co/LU52xNkQR0

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

President Trump’s ill-considered, ill-prepared, and ill-timed war with Iran has so far cost at least $28 billion, 13 American and thousands of Iranian lives, the crippling closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the interruption of global energy supplies, an economic crisis that has impacted hundreds of millions of people across the world, and possibly irreversible reputational damage to the United States, Robin Wright writes.

Over the weekend, the U.S. and Iran said they were in the final stages of negotiating a “memorandum of understanding,” or M.O.U.—the first step in eventually ending the conflict. “Iran is playing the long game, despite incurring heavy losses that include the killing of its Supreme Leader and other senior political and military officials, in addition to huge damage to its infrastructure,” Wright continues. “Trump is playing the short game, with midterm elections looming, and public disapproval of the war growing. For him, Operation Epic Fury is turning into an epic disaster.” Read more: https://t.co/8xZY9Fa3ZD

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

The Left’s decline reflects the fading of an older political language: class struggle and collective mobilisation have steadily given way to identity politics, nationalism, populist leaders and welfare delivery. My piece. #Communists #India #CPI(M) https://t.co/iVes4SEnFq

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

John Mearsheimer: "It's not just Israeli leaders who support the genocide. You don't see any protest among the Israeli public. It's shocking. It's sickening. You have to file all this under the Nazification of Israel. They are like the Germans under Hitler."

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

Would he speak like that if US foreign policy were not exceedingly influenced by the pro-Israel lobby?

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israeli minister Ben Gvir says Trump's deal with Iran is "bad for Israel" and that Israel will not "allow" it.

Let that sink in.

And remember this clip next time someone claims that a factual conversation about the Israeli government's influence in DC is off-limits...

[Historyland @HistorylandHQ]

A Peruvian mother carries her baby through the Andes, circa 1955.

[Fausto Scarinzi @FaustoScarinzi]

@ilriformista Qui c'e Smotrich - sionista - che diceva che è "giustificato" e "morale" far morire di fame due milioni di persone. Tanti non sono sionisti e sanno benissimo di non esserlo perché non condividono roba del genere...con buona pace di De Luca da Jerusalem...
https://t.co/ZFNQqxSqS2