In the heart of the war في قلب الحرب

Info portal on the implications of #War #injustice on our people and on their #foodsecurity #Arab_World #Lebanon2024. You remain in our hearts.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This is not business as usual.
My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today.
It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine.
Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must follow.

https://t.co/PV5wgeLpr2

#EconomyofOccupation #EconomyofGenocide

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Told the BBC to fuck off.

[🔻 @atlajala]

77 years of ongoing Nakba. here is a thread of Nakba Day posters & materials from the Palestinian struggle throughout the years. by various groups & artists around the world, as archived by the Palestine Poster Project.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

FIRES IN THE HOLY LAND
An agronomist told me: look at the Lebanese vs Holy Land border. In the winter, both sides are green. In the summer, the Lebanese side is brown & the other is green. Mark of Settler Colonialism: replicating Central European ecology in the Mediterranean.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Note: I am not at NYU anymore, but @AUB_Lebanon. Otherwise, I would have left.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The problem with evil isn't just evil. It's the bystander.

#Gaza

[Handala @HandalaPali]

How does Israel use food to erase Palestinian culture and identity?

Laila El-Haddad (@gazamom), chef and author of the award-winning cookbook ‘The Gaza Kitchen,’ explains below.

[In the heart of the war في قلب الحرب @FoodPandemic]

الاسرائيلي اعدم الاشجار. The israelis executed the trees in south Lebanon.

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/4

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's very hard, even indecent, to celebrate the upcoming ceasefire in Gaza.

We've just witnessed one of the most senseless and barbaric massacres in human history with at least 64,000 Palestinians violently killed by Israel (https://t.co/9K8Y2XW2YN) and probably tens of thousands more when you take into account indirect deaths and the many still buried under the rubble. The vast majority of whom were women, children or elderly.

And all for what? Antony Blinken himself recognized yesterday (https://t.co/VsUU9M5bW3) that this generated so much hatred that the US's own assessment was that Hamas recruited as many people as it had lost. Given that Israel's official objective for their actions was to eradicate Hamas, this means that their barbarism wasn't only senseless but also entirely self-defeating from their own standpoint.

Gaza also signaled the death of many other things, first of which being the notion - taken for granted basically since biblical times - that massacring women and children en-masse was contemptible. Massacres of civilians are sadly nothing new in human history, but what makes Gaza unique is how these atrocities were not just committed but celebrated, justified, and supported by Israel and its allies. People always make all-too-easy comparisons with Hitler but at least during that time the vast majority of the West was fighting the guy and his ideas.

To a large extent, Gaza showed that we've become what we used to claim was the ultimate evil. Even my own country - France - which always prided itself on being the place where we came up with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights completely reneged on its supposed principles and backed Israel unconditionally.

That's all very hard to celebrate - all the more because this sets a precedent that I suspect will have profound consequences in the years to come.

This also means that the onus isn't only on Israel, although they're of course the main culprit. We need to be honest with ourselves: Gaza would never have happened had Israel not received the backing of the West and the very fact that this ceasefire occurred the very minute the U.S. finally decided to bang their fist on the table proves that.

Gaza also signaled the death of the hope that we could have a world order backed by universal values. I mean, when we can't even agree that massacring women and children, starving them, killing journalists, humanitarian workers and UN staff is bad, what is there to talk about? When you have a set of countries - including the world's most powerful country - that are nihilistic to such an extent and willing to accept such moral debasement, it completely obliterates the hope for a world order where we collectively - as human beings - agree on common principles and values. The death of this idea is also very hard to celebrate.

Lastly Gaza signaled the complete failure of the entire post-WW2 international system. When even institutions like the ICJ and ICC - which were supposed to be the ultimate guarantors of international law - proved powerless in the face of U.S. obstruction, it became clear that the whole system was bankrupt.

So while we should of course all welcome any respite for the Palestinian people who have suffered unimaginable horrors, this ceasefire feels less like a victory for humanity and more like a stark reminder of our collective failure.

The challenge now isn't just about rebuilding Gaza - it's about rebuilding our very conception of international relations and human dignity. Because if we don't learn from this darkness, if we don't fundamentally reform a system that allowed such atrocities to happen with impunity, then Gaza won't be remembered as an aberration but as the moment when humanity officially gave up on the idea that some acts are simply beyond the pale. This wouldn't make us regress because I legitimately can't think of a moment in history when that was the case: it would make us step into the abyss of an unparallelly dark age.

[Jason W. Moore @oikeios]

How many on the left these days study the history of counterrevolution?

[Richard Solomon 🌹 @SolomonsGardens]

🚨BREAKING🚨 The MIT Coalition for Palestine representing 19 student and faculty groups just released an 83-page report 'MIT Science for Genocide' on how MIT conducts war research on campus sponsored directly by the Israeli military.

https://t.co/GgvQeU4Lcq

[Omar Nashabe عمر نشابة @ONashabe]

الآن تبين كل هذا الحقد الدفين ضد حزب الله وايران من قبل بعض الناس الذين كانوا يخفونه لسنوات طويلة.
لم اكن اعلم انه حقد كبير لهذه الدرجة. لم اكن اعلم ان قلّة الوفاء قد تصل إلى هذا الحد.

الحمد لله الذي وهبني ضميري وثبّتني على طريق الحق وكرّمني بمكارم الأخلاق
والله ما تركتك يا حسين يوم ظُلمت وقُتلت واعتديَ عليك
هذه ليست مسألة فئويّة او شيعية او إسلامية حصراً بل هي قضية حق لكل البشرية وامتحان الوفاء للحقّ.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Christian Lebanese Federalists don't get fractality & have been misinterpreting my OWN work.

Being localist/Federalist doesn't mean extraction from your environment & being a bystander to crimes not far from you. The organization is: friends and family, tribe, collection of tribes, kaza, area (Levant), etc. Or multifractal across several matrices, ethnoreligious across dispersed localities & regional across ethnoreligious groups.

They are making the same error as the top-down Nationalism (Syrian, Lebanese, Pan-Arab), etc. of the 1930s that kills anything between the individual and the state.

Sometimes, when crimes in the broader neighborhood reach such a high level of severity, you must intervene, as towns across Asia Minor went to assist others and show solidarity at times of calamity. INTENSITY of injustice >> distance. If an Irish person feels solidarity with Palestinians, how can't you when you share so much in blood, culture, and geography with them?

Many Pseudofederalists fall for the same error of monolithic statism, the way nationalism establishes morally watertight boundaries.

What Eastern European immigrants to British-administered Palestine didn't get is that you are part of larger system; the degree of bonds change but you can't cut-off from other communities.

[National Center for Natural Hazards &Early Warning @NCNE_Lebanon]

⚫️فيديو يوثّق حصيلة العدوان الاسرائيلي على لبنان

🔴 Video Documenting the Israeli Aggression on Lebanon

7/10/2023 ➡️ 4/11/2024

@tamara_elzein @DrChadiAbdallah @CNRSL @DRM_Lebanon

[FAO Knowledge @FAOKnowledge]

Transforming agrifood systems in the Mediterranean is essential for achieving the #SDGs.

This @FAO report offers policy recommendations & emphasizes the importance of regional cooperation to drive sustainable change & resilience in the region.

https://t.co/4xZ2MWcm0a

@AUB_FSP

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇨🇳🇵🇸🚩 Free Palestine.

[📕 @SwampCommunist]

Lenin remains immortal for describing petit bourgeois radicalism as the politics of one who "easily goes to revolutionary extremes, but is incapable of perseverance, organization, discipline and steadfastness."

[In the heart of the war في قلب الحرب @FoodPandemic]

من هنا سوف يأتي الفشل الاسرائيلي، إذ انهم لن يستطيعوا القضاء على ما هو بصلب ايمان الناس.

فهيهات منا الذلة، هي اكسير وجودهم.
و هم مشاريع شهادة دائمة.
وهم مشاريع حياة دائمة.
-رياض الأسعد

[In the heart of the war في قلب الحرب @FoodPandemic]

ثريد: كتب الصديق رياض الاسعد: ليست المرة الأولى في تاريخ شيعة جبل عامل هكذا ...نكبة...
في تاريخهم الحديث مرت عليهم محن صعبة وطويلة،منها ما هو مرتبط بخيارت قيادتهم السياسية، منها ما هو مرتبط…

[In the heart of the war في قلب الحرب @FoodPandemic]

وصحيح انها عانت طويلا مثل باقي المجموعات البشرية المتواجدة بجوارها من استبداد عباسي الى فاطمي إلى مملوكي إلى صليبي إلى عثماني إلى فرنسي الى إسرائيلي، الا انها تميزت عن غيرها من المجموعات " اللبنانية" بقدرتها على استيعاب هذه النكبات وعدم الانكسار أمامها.