George Chahine

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[George Chahine @Gergeeeeee]

1/ 🧵 #Uptober lived up to its name, not just on the charts but in funding as well. October saw a substantial increase with $1.4B deployed across 92 rounds, up sharply from $663M in September’s 99 rounds. Let’s break down the details:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Will we get an apology from all those pro-Israel people who screamed on this hellsite throughout 2024 ‘why won’t they just release the hostages?’ as an attempted justification for every Israeli war crime?

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇱🇧 🇮🇱 ⚖️ 🕊️ My comments on the framework agreement:

Reading it, one cannot help but think of the naïveté and amateurism of the Palestinian negotiators during the Oslo process. Ill-prepared and outmatched, PLO negotiators were effectively bamboozled into an agreement that extracted major concessions without securing enforceable commitments.

We see a similar pattern here: Israeli negotiators seek recognition and get the other side to relinquish leverage while offering no binding timetable or reciprocal obligations. 33 years after Oslo, the number of Israeli settlers has risen from roughly 150,000 to more than 800,000, while the occupation continues.

Likewise, this agreement contains no firm Israeli commitment to withdraw from Lebanon. It refers only to a possible “redeployment,” which is itself contingent on the United States and Israel determining that the Lebanese Armed Forces have fulfilled their obligations.

That is an extremely demanding benchmark, especially given the LAF’s limited capabilities and the absence of broad domestic political buy-in for such a mission.

Not to mention that the word redeployment brings back terrible memories. Syria had promised to “redeploy” ( اعادة تموضع ) and ended up staying decades!

Moreover, Article 13 is particularly problematic. It appears to prevent Lebanon from pursuing its claims through international legal and diplomatic forums, possibly a reference to the International Criminal Court or even the United Nations, thereby significantly narrowing its diplomatic options. For the past decades, many have been trying to convince supporters of armed struggle to renounce violence by telling them that there are other foras to reclaim their rights. Now they are asked to simultaneously renounce both.

The fact that the security annex has not been made public is equally problematic and raises serious concerns. Without transparency, it is impossible to assess the full scope of the commitments undertaken by the parties or the mechanisms through which they are expected to be implemented.

The broader issue is that, unlike the recent U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, which was negotiated by seasoned, highly experienced, albeit deeply cynical, Iranian diplomats (with Qatar and Pakistan acting as third parties) Lebanon negotiated with Israel on a one-to-one basis without the benefit of an honest broker. In practice, the United States is unlikely to act as a neutral mediator and will almost certainly align with Israeli positions whenever disputes arise over the interpretation or implementation of the agreement.

This creates a fundamentally asymmetric negotiating environment in which Lebanon has little leverage and few effective guarantees.

Some senior Israeli commentators are already saying that Israel succeeded in sowing the seeds of civil strife and that this was their goal from day one.

In that context, the utmost priority of Lebanese statesmen today should be to preserve internal cohesion and national unity, while gradually and realistically working to restore the authority of the state over the entirety of its territory.

Any approach that ignores Lebanon’s fragile domestic balance, or seeks to impose maximalist objectives without the necessary political consensus and institutional capacity, risks producing the opposite of the intended result.

Those who want to see the glass half full will point to the fact that Israel claimed in this accord that it has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon, but here again the legal phrasing leaves room for ambiguity and this is also contradicted by the statements of several Israeli ministers and by Netanyahu’s own communique saying Israel has no intention of withdrawing from the so-called “security zone.”

For all these reasons, many independent Lebanese analysts, even those very hostile to Hezbollah, feel that with this framework agreement, Lebanon scored an own goal and that this agreement will not stand.

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the IAEA, is yet another Zionist within the UN who serves the Zionist lobby rather than the UN itself.

At the behest of Zionism, Grossi lied about the presence of highly enriched uranium in Iran—an allegation he later retracted—in an attempt to legitimize a war against the country. This occurred after it became clear that B-2 bombers had failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities—a failure that had sparked serious discussions regarding the use of tactical nuclear weapons or strikes on Iranian nuclear power plants. That was when I stepped in and leaked this information to the world...

When Grossi realized he was being set up as a scapegoat—poised to bear direct responsibility for triggering a "nuclear winter"—he hastily admitted to fabricating reports against Iran; yet, he remains the Director General of the IAEA.

Grossi is now being touted as a leading contender and the frontrunner for the position of UN Secretary-General, thanks to the lobby he serves and his fabrication of reports.

This is precisely what I meant when I spoke to you about the powerful lobby that dominates the United Nations. He is the next UN Secretary-General!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Elon joined my call for a global revolution over the Epstein files.

I responded to that with, “You’ll be included in my upcoming Human Rights report on Epstein files and complicity in Gaza genocide through Starlink and X.”

Elon flagged my account so that all my posts are sent directly to /dev/null.

Not enough people are talking about the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein! We do, but Elon is censoring this content and anyone who posts it.

Can you please do whatever you want to let him see this tweet as I am in X jail. Or better yet, make this tweet one of the most liked tweets ever. Send him the message that he can't manipulate the public anymore.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Looking ahead to the next 24 months, my main focus is passing along whatever I have that could be of benefit to others. At 76, that is the driving force behind everything I am doing.

It is exactly why I wrote about the mechanics of debt - so people could study those mechanics. I still love playing my investment game, which I am now doing for my family office, and I am making a platform so that everybody can do that sort of thing. Those are my aspirations professionally. Personally, my focus is on family, my grandkids, and simply savoring life.

[George Chahine @Gergeeeeee]

@AlfieJCarter Agents

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Israel started massive bombing campaign against Lebanon as soon as a potential peace deal was announced. They’re never going to let us live in peace. They are never going to be satisfied.

They’re insatiable fanatics, who want endless war because they think God promised that land to them 3,000 years ago. They’re the religious and nationalist fundamentalists we should have been warned about.

That’s so fucking obvious. Just look at a map!! Are the Palestinians occupying the Israelis, or the other way around? Are the Lebanese invading Israel, or the other way around? You would have to be both blind and deeply stupid to not see the reality at this point.

I’m furious at our national media. They all lied in unison for decades to trick us into supporting and funding the terrorists.

I don’t know that I can ever forgive all the reporters in the national press, who lied to help the fascists, and called their victims “terrorists.” These sick people helped the actual terrorists brutalize the Palestinians for six decades, while actively hiding the truth from us.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Most of my life, USS Liberty attack was treated like a conspiracy theory. Why were we misled on that? Why did our media and government not go ballistic over our ship being attacked by a so-called ally? That is super weird. Our national media seems to work for a different country.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

In review, Israel has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers, our uranium and rest of our top secrets. They attacked one of our ships and killed 34 US sailors. They've taken $320 billion from us and gotten us to spend $8 trillion for their wars. Is that an ally or an enemy?

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

More:
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[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

The Constitution does not allow the Federal Government to merge our military with Israel's.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

The presence of the Zionist state on the Temple Mount and its interference with people is unacceptable.

It is a persecution committed against Muslims in Masjid al-Aqsa. It is unacceptable for Zionists to pretend to be Jews and interfere with Muslims on the Temple Mount, while Jews are forbidden from going there.

What the Zionists do is against the Torah and the Jewish religion. They do whatever they want in all Palestine and in Jerusalem. It is a great sin for any believing Jew to climb the Temple Mount, that is, the Masjid al-Aqsa.

In our religion, Judaism, it is strictly forbidden for Jews to go to the temple mountain. JEWS can never be there and pray. Zionists and thief settlers are irreligious people who defy the Torah and break into the temple mountain by appearing to be Jews.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Bondi and @JDVance were directing the cover up of sexual abuse detailed in the Epstein files from the situation room.

I discussed with @Lawrence how his team was instrumental in @RepThomasMassie and my passing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

@jonathanvswan and @maggieNYT's book will show that our efforts broke Trump's coalition and remains his biggest liability with American voters.

[RT @RT_com]

Tabshour ('Chalk') the donkey goes viral in Lebanon after braying with joy upon seeing his human best friend for the first time since they were separated by war

'Damn this war that separated us'

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

USS Liberty survivor Larry Bowen said US officials tried to cover up an Israeli war crime and suppress survivor testimonies to protect Israel's image.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israeli genocide is in 4K on your telly, so you can’t say you didn’t know, you can only say you didn’t care | Irish actor Liam Cunningham

[LPC @landpalestine]

American actor Mark Ruffalo says
I have cut ties with celebrities who support the killing of children in Palestine

“I do not want to talk to them anymore”

[RyanMatta 🇺🇸 🦅 @Ryanmatta]

This should be the most viral documentary on the internet!

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

READ THIS CAREFULLY. 👇

The people who fought to release the Epstein files have been targeted harder than the people who fought against the America First movement.

Why?

For years, Americans were promised accountability.

❌ No accountability for the Democrats on the January 6th Committee.
❌ No one has been prosecuted from the stolen election in 2020.
❌ No accountability for COVID-era crimes against humanity.

Instead, the loudest attacks have been directed at 4 Republicans who demanded the release of the Epstein Files.

That should concern every American, regardless of right vs left.

Americans were promised transparency and accountability. The question is: Where is it?

Actions speak louder than broken promises.