Jaafar Issa | Not From Here

Not From Here Podcast

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

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[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

https://t.co/n8HQvOl7wq

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Nothing to see here, just the GOP's top donor calling for the expulsion of US Shia citizens in Dearborn, many of whom foolishly voted for the GOP.
Their crime? Going on an annual peaceful Shia religious procession and scaring the white nationalists.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

@SouthernV76 @realMaalouf It’s really fascinating, he goes deep into it in the full podcast episode

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This doesn’t have enough shares.

Israel committed 220 ceasefire violations in Lebanon in 3 days.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Israeli Army Radio reports that Israeli occupation forces have established a "security belt" in southern Lebanon that includes 55 villages whose residents are not allowed to return.

This is ethnic cleansing. It is a war crime.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

I have no words. What a disgrace.

This Lebanese government will go down in history as the biggest failure since independence.

They couldn’t negotiate a broken pipe in their own country, they think they’re going to get anything out of the Israelis and Americans.

[Global News Monitor @GlobalNewsMontr]

⚡️From the Lebanese, Israeli, U.S. negotiations in D.C., Marco Rubio gives little speech

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Netanyahu: “In light of Lebanon’s repeated ⁠requests to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed the cabinet yesterday to start direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possible."

Imagine this sad and pathetic Lebanese government negotiates with these land grabbing lunatics as they massacre Lebanese across the country.

You do not negotiate while under fire and invasion and occupation. They have't even stopped murdering our people yet.

But given that this spineless government is obsessed with bending the knee to imperialism and genocide, I won't be at all surprised if they do it.

And guess what? That won't even make the Israelis stop their terror campaign or greater israel project. Also, half this country won't allow it without a fight.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Israel dragged the region into war. They have been invading Lebanon since before Hezbollah was formed. Do some research. I am a reporter on the ground and I have 18 months worth of evidence of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon. You cannot dispute it.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

The Lebanese president couldn’t negotiate to fix a broken water pipe in his own country btw.

[الجزيرة - عاجل @AJABreaking]

عاجل | الرئيس اللبناني: لا نقبل أن يفاوض أحد عن الدولة اللبنانية

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Yesterday the VP said Israel had agreed to check itself in Lebanon

Today:

[aeisraa @aeisraa_]

There’s something deeply unnatural about seeing your home destroyed and trending on social media while you’re trying to reach the people you love. This is where I learned how to walk, how to laugh, how to exist. And now it’s reduced to rubble.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

My cousin was sitting in this coffee shop with his friends. Israel killed him.

Displaced civilians in the middle of the night, massacred.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Another massacre in Saida: Lebanese ministry of Health reports that 8 people have been killed and 22 injured in an Israeli bombing of a coffee shop earlier tonight.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

@zmakky21 I appreciate you my brother 🙌🏻 Thank you for sharing it

[Zane Makky @zmakky21]

A must watch for everyone on this platform. There’s something in this video for everyone. Extremely informative and worth your time by @JaafarrIssa

This War Destroyed Me (until it didn't)

https://t.co/4VIj3luJkg

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

This is called invasion and occupation. The which they started in November 2024. There are five illegal occupation points in south Lebanon. Here is a photo of two IDF soldiers who opened fire on me in Houla, where I stood legally, because I was photographing their illegal base. Colleagues, do better. New York Times, you’re a bunch of hacks complicit in not only the genocide of Gaza but the ethnic cleansing of south Lebanon. I hope you suffer the same fate that the propagandists are Nuremberg faced.

Zoom in

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

Hsen Farhat stayed in his village during 66 days of war—not because he had to, but because the animals needed him. While bombs fell and neighbors fled, Hussein fed abandoned goats, rescued cats from rubble, and played Minecraft at night with his cousin.

In the silence of an empty village, facing death daily, he discovered something unexpected: the most peaceful period of his life.

This isn't a typical war story. The things that you’ll hear, you’ve probably never heard before from anyone who stayed in a war zone.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

This is the Youtube link:

https://t.co/d34aStsngR

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

🎙️Courtney Bonneau (@cbonneauimages) is one of the only foreign journalists who chose to live and work in South Lebanon for the past few years, documenting life inside war, grief, and political collapse.

We unpack the American worldview on global politics, how media narratives distort reality, and why even well-intentioned Americans often misunderstand the Middle East. Courtney reflects on what it means to witness the real-world consequences of power, ideology, and political language up close.

We also talk about grief, death, borders, fear, faith, and what happens when curiosity turns into responsibility. The world of mainstream media does not want you to listen to this conversation.

[Jaafar Issa | Not From Here @JaafarrIssa]

I’m going to post the whole episode on X!

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Tomorrow! https://t.co/N3aprubWB3