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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If a U.S. Congressman can be forcibly detained by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, what do you think is happening to the Palestinians who live there?

Sadly, we know the answer.

Despite massive campaign spending by AIPAC, members of Congress must be very clear. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO THE EXTREMIST NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT.

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

It was hard to dislike our opponents last night. On Wednesday however….

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.

It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that the Democratic lawmaker cast as an unfiltered look at the toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs a 2028 presidential run https://t.co/1cLLaCQrOf

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Thank you to all those who reached out asking about my safety. I am home. But I cannot get the stories of the indignities Palestinian face out or my head. I am still processing it and wanted to share some of what I saw.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

US Democrat Ro Khanna says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers https://t.co/RrUlXf4UAG

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇦🇷 BREAKING — World Cup:

This is the Most Corrupt World Cup in History.

FIFA has Just Robbed Egypt in Broad Daylight.

[sam 🇫🇷🇧🇪 @sambrazy]

Not enough people remember this. Infantino hand selected Inter Miami to participate in the Club World Cup. Not the MLS champions, but Inter Miami.

They’re the only team that didn’t have to qualify

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A perfect embodiment of global sentiment right now

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The World is happy

[Belgian Red Devils @BelRedDevils]

Overturn this. 🧏‍♂️ #USABEL

[The Rest Is Football @RestIsFootball]

"That really got my blood boiling."

The France v Paraguay game was all fun & games until it wasn't 😬🟥

[Okafort-dépressif🇨🇭 @okaformidable]

Les propos hier soir du journaliste de la RTS Pablo Iglesias après le match France - Paraguay 👏🏻

Ça fais plaisir de voir quelqu’un qui ose dire les choses et qui les dis très juste 👏🏻

[Clinch 7 @ClinchRMCF]

players with their best Look alike

[Arquivo Curioso @arquivocurioso]

🇦🇷 Argentina em seus últimos 11 jogos de Copa:

🇸🇦: Pênalti
🇲🇽: -
🇵🇱: Pênalti
🇦🇺: -
🇳🇱: Pênalti, cartão vermelho poupado e cartão vermelho para o adversário
🇭🇷: Pênalti
🇫🇷: Pênalti e gol irregular
🇩🇿: Cartão vermelho poupado
🇦🇹: Pênalti
🇯🇴: Pênalti
🇨🇻: Gol irregular

A princesinha da FIFA 🤣!

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

Thank you Cape Verde! 🇨🇻❤️

[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.

https://t.co/Hac2g5GDCV

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

The exchange that’s got the pro-Israeli-govt lobby raging… as you can see, I just calmly and repeatedly ask one question of the ‘war scholar’..