Islam Abdel-Rahman

Strategy and geopolitics are my passion. Medicine is my career. @PaisWarwick Alumni. Tweets express personal views...... Founder of

[Islam Abdel-Rahman @IslamRahman]

It was my message 7 years ago, and it is the same today #Egypt #AntiCoup

[Jennifer Kavanagh @jekavanagh]

This is not a new ability. Iran always had this option, it just never chose to do it.

[Kelley B. Vlahos @KelleyBVlahos]

live now!

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

“The physician is suffering from untreated skin diseases, severe food shortages, and has been denied critical surgery to remove drone strike shrapnel from his thigh.”

They literally just want to torture this man for the “crime” of saving Palestinian lives.

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

The Israel lobby made a grand ol show about how INDEPENDENT AND WISE Trump's decision making is the last 3 months

Now at the slightest hint of deviation he must being CONTROLLED by his VP. Such pathetic lapdogs, if you're mad at Trump then say it you cowards

[Mohamed “ME” Elibiary @MohamedElibiary]

This lady’s whole argument that Christians didn’t mobilize their voters in Frisco because they didn’t endorse candidates from the pulpit falls flat if you ask her to provide evidence that candidates were endorsed from the pulpits of mosques 🕌 or Hindu temples and that is why those populations voted. The true reality in #Texas is that this subset of Christians I called #Christianists two decades ago are no longer a super majority in Collin County. Plenty of other Christians don’t agree with their particular Christian nationalism worldview and the “minorities” around here have grown up, had kids, and made plenty of money 💰 to drive economic growth in the region too. Having grown up, lived in this region and served on the @CollinGOP Executive Committee a decade; my advice to my @TexasGOP remains the same as the past two decades drop this populist strategy of nationalizing our elections and return to Reagan era conservative values. It’s not our job as republicans to bitch that our fellow American citizens don’t look like our ancestral homelands, citizens are citizens in a constitutional republic, which is what America 🇺🇸 is and will always remain. Saving the republic means supporting the constitution for all Americans and doesn’t privilege one identity of whiny 😫 citizens over another. A citizen in a republic doesn’t get to have the same rights you enjoy because you politically get to approve it for them. They have the same constitutional rights as you do, because there’s a U.S. Constitution you can’t change irrespective of whether you like it or not Thanks 🙏🏼 for your time. MNE

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Excited to hear @AIPAC weigh in on these comments

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

Begging Democrats to resist the urge to bash Trump from the hawkish right, which only reinforces the very stupid discourse that enabled this very stupid war in the first place.

[Islam Abdel-Rahman @IslamRahman]

RT @amawlana84: شرعية الحق أم الدولة؟

سردية شرعية الدولة لا شرعية الحق التي يتشدق بها البعض حاليا ممجوجة، فالروس والإيرانيون انخرطوا في…

[Anas El Gomati @AGomati]

A remarkable piece in the FT on the back channel that pulled the US and Iran off the brink.

One line does most of the work in the article. ‘The Qataris quietly did most of the heavy lifting to bridge the two sides’. That sentence is carrying a war.

Doha held a US-Iran channel open while US fighters were striking Iranian targets mid-session. While Israel nearly collapsed the talks twice. While a US president oscillated between bombing threats and signing ceremonies inside the same week. While Iran’s negotiators checked every word and negotiated the meaning of it, and the White House demanded answers by the weekend.
Mediation usually fails on one of those pressures. The negotiators absorbed all of them, and the channel held.

Few teams in living memory have closed a file under those conditions.

[Kelley B. Vlahos @KelleyBVlahos]

TUE 11AM LIVE @BenFreemanDC @nick_clevelands join me to talk about their research in US-Israel military integration and American media manipulation schemes. This is going to be a good one! #TriptheBeltwayFantastic https://t.co/IP2G4imR9Z

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday.

The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.

[Saeed Ziad | سعيد زياد @saeedziad]

كل أهلنا يسألون:
أين غزة من الاتفاق؟
لماذا لا يزال سيف الموت يقتل من أبنائها كل يوم بلا رادع ؟
لماذا لم يتضمن الاتفاق نصاً يلزم العدو بوقف جرائمه ؟
لماذا غابت غزة وحضر الباقون ؟

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We can strengthen our chances of this deal holding by cutting all military/intel assistance to Israel, they took every opportunity to tank this deal & will likely do so again unless we take action.

We should also quietly get our troops out of the bases in the Gulf that can be reached by Iran. This ensures Iranian hardliners can’t strike us to drag us back into the fight.

Take away every factor that we can control that could force us back into the war on Israel or Iran’s terms.

Set all conditions that we can control in our favor.

[Strategic Forum @SForum80]

رابط المقال: https://t.co/nPkfKgHS24

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

A damning chart: The US cuts off food aid to majority Muslim countries.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

It was stolen and transported to Dimona, where it was enriched to weapons grade and used to produce an illegal WMD arsenal.
Why act as stupid as you look?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🇬🇧 “A London judge sentenced 4 Palestine Action activists to several years in prison for acting as ‘terrorists’ when they raided an Israeli defense factory and smashed equipment to disrupt production of weapons they feared would kill people in Gaza...” https://t.co/qs0Sot85l5

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees.

Dr. Abu Safyia has been arbitrarily detained for one and a half years without charges, while being physically abused and denied healthcare.

His recent solitary confinement adds a further layer of concerns over his deteriorating health. Dr. Abu Safyia must be immediately and unconditionally released. Israel must release all Palestinians arbitrarily detained. States must pressure Israel to stop abusing Palestinian prisoners.

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya