Hanadi Musharrafiyeh

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Israel has killed Al Jazeera journalist and cameraman Ahmed Wishah in an airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

According to health officials, three people were killed in the strike, including Wishah, while other attacks across Gaza on the same day reportedly killed other Palestinians, including women and children.

Wishah's death adds to the growing toll of journalists killed during Israel's war on Gaza.

Press freedom groups have repeatedly described Gaza as the deadliest place for journalists ever recorded.

The killing comes just two months after Ahmed Wishah's brother, Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah, was killed in a separate Israeli attack.

Media organisations and press freedom advocates say the mounting death toll among journalists has reduced the world's ability to witness events inside Gaza and has made the territory one of the most dangerous places on earth for reporters.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman on Israel the SPOILER:

“Israel not only is not an ally, but it is a saboteur. It is determined to wreck any understanding with Iran... It wants the war to go on until Iran is destroyed.”

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@omanair I have an ongoing one-sided exchange with your web sales refund team. It is not acceptable that your customers’ grievances are left unanswered.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

What Really Happened on October 7 @pularjs

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Fed up of the media lying to you every single day?

Double Down Newswatch will hold them to account.

Never before has aggressive scrutiny and fearless independent journalism been so important, yet never before has the mainstream media been so narrow in its perspectives, so infected in groupthink, and so tied to this failed political class and system.

If you find yourself screaming at the telly at the established pundits and news providers. The Laura Kuenssbergs, the Robert Pestons, the Trevor Phillips, Dana Bash and Bari Weiss, you are not alone. There are millions of people like you and we’re here for you.

This is not a program that will tell you what to think, the aim is to provide you with the information and knowledge you need to be able to make informed decisions in a functioning democracy, something that mainstream media is failing to do.

Like millions of others I’ve watched in horror and astonishment as the Israelis have used Western weapons and diplomatic protection to maim, mutilate and murder tens of thousands of small children and other civilians. There’s no other issue where the divide between the mainstream media and political class, which apparently regards this as tolerable, and the rest of us who’ve reacted like normal human beings, is so profound.

Above all, I feel deep shame and guilt at my own profession which continues to peddle a perverse inverted journalism, where allegations of racism are hurled not at the perpetrators and supporters of ethic cleansing, apartheid and genocide, but at their victims and their supporters, smeared and disempowered as antisemites.

Gaza encapsulates the political and intellectual and moral bankruptcy of those who rule over us and those who are to tell us what to think. Western politics and Western journalism is in desperate need of renewal, we want to be a part of that and we hope you join us.

@PulaRJS

Double Down Newswatch, covering the stories that mainstream media misreports, underreports or simple doesn’t report at all.

Premiers this Wednesday 6 May at 6pm

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An Arab scholar in 1011 was placed under house arrest in Cairo for 10 years. He used the time to invent the scientific method, prove how vision actually works, and write a 7-volume book that Newton studied 600 years later.

I read about him last night and could not stop thinking about it.

His name was Ibn al-Haytham. The book is called the "Book of Optics."

The textbook story names Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes as the founders of modern science. All three of them came 600 years after Ibn al-Haytham. All three of them studied his work directly or through Latin translations. The man who actually invented the scientific method was working alone in a single room in Cairo while Europe was still in the Dark Ages.

Here is the story almost nobody tells you.

He was born in Basra around 965 CE. By his 40s he had a reputation across the Arab world as one of the most original minds alive. Then he made the mistake that almost killed him. He claimed publicly that he could regulate the flooding of the Nile. The mad caliph al-Hakim of Cairo summoned him to Egypt to do it.

Ibn al-Haytham took one look at the river and realized the project was impossible with the technology of his era. The caliph had executed dozens of scholars for less. So he faked madness. The caliph believed him and put him under house arrest in his own home in Cairo for the next 10 years.

Most people would have lost their actual mind. He used the time to invent science.

Before him, knowledge worked one way. You quoted authority. If Aristotle had said it, it was true. If Galen had written it, it was correct. The role of a scholar was to memorize and defend the ancient Greeks. I

Ibn al-Haytham broke this completely. He wrote a sentence in the Book of Optics that quietly destroyed 1,400 years of intellectual culture. "The seeker after truth," he said, "is not the one who follows his natural disposition to trust the writings of the ancients. The seeker after truth is the one who suspects them, questions them, and submits only to argument and experiment."

That single sentence is the foundation of modern science. He wrote it 600 years before the European Renaissance.

The second thing he did was build the actual machinery of experimentation.

He insisted that no claim about the physical world was acceptable until it had been verified by an experiment anyone could repeat. He gave detailed instructions for every experiment in his book. He told his readers, in writing, not to take his word for any of it. Build the equipment. Run the tests yourself. Verify or destroy my claims with your own eyes.

The third thing he did was use the method to overturn one of the most settled questions in physics.

The Greeks had taught for centuries that vision worked because the eye emitted invisible rays. Ibn al-Haytham proved them wrong with a darkened room, a small hole, and a wall. The first camera obscura. He showed that light from the outside world enters the eye, the exact opposite of what every Greek thinker had taught.

Two hundred years later his book was translated into Latin in Spain. Roger Bacon cited him. Kepler cited him. Galileo's work on the telescope was built on his optics. Newton's foundational work on light rested on his framework.

Walk into any physics department today. Ask who founded the scientific method. Almost nobody will say Ibn al-Haytham.

The man who invented the way humanity actually knows things did the work under house arrest, with no funding, no laboratory, and a paranoid caliph next door waiting for an excuse to kill him.

He did it anyway. Most of the world is still pretending it was someone else's idea.

[واس الاقتصادي @SPAeconomic]

صندوق التنمية السياحي يصدر أحدث أوراقه البحثية عن الدور المحوري للشركات الناشئة في القطاع السياحي.
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#واس

[صندوق التنمية السياحي @TDF_SA]

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[صندوق التنمية السياحي @TDF_SA]

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[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

Ahead of the 2018 Lebanon parliamentary elections, a group launched an extremely informative website on the independent candidates' profiles. Can someone remind me of it, and if there's a similar initiative for 2022?

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@presslstore Took a very long time to get delivered from China. Way overpriced for the quality. Not worth it. 1-star

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

‘The Compatibility of Opposites’: A Portrait of Lebanon https://t.co/yC7cAdG4nr via @nybooks

[Synaps @SynapsNetwork]

For a detailed examination of how infrastructure projects around the country have produced little more than kickbacks, see @cmparreira’s essay, rich with documented examples. https://t.co/woAmjHF0RS

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

What a sad sad state of affairs

[Synaps @SynapsNetwork]

Given the scale of destruction, we feel it is relevant to share these raw excerpts from a short, informal interview we conducted on 6 August 2017 with a low-ranking port officer in Beirut. It says volumes about the state of affairs that led to this calamity.

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@HodaChedid شكرا

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@HodaChedid يعطيكي العافية عالتغطية مبارح من قصر الصنوبر. مبارح قلتي اسامي ممثلي المجتمع المدني يللي اجتمعو مع الرئيس الفرنسي، وين بلاقي هيدي القائمة يللي اذعتيها حضرتك؟

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@LBCILebanon I wish you would stop giving airtime to all the lying corrupt politicians. More airtime should go to new blood to change the rhetoric that the current inept self-serving mafiosos have ingrained

[Hanadi Musharrafiyeh @Hanadi_Mush]

@dgheim

[Reuters @Reuters]

Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telecoms operator, struck a deal to link its financial services platform M-Pesa to Visa’s global payments system