Karim Maiche

[Karim Maiche @KMaiche]

People use the concept of the west because they believe they escape from racial, hierarchial, political, cultural and historical generalizations.

However, they only strengthen these adjuncts while they assume they are hiding their cultural racism and stereotypes.

[Karim Maiche @KMaiche]

@oppaihubb69 West: developed, rational, rich, democratic, white, secular, equal

Non-West: under developed, irrational, poor, undemocratic, non-white, religious, unequal

This is how adults and children explained us in our research: what is west

Your concept is super hierarchial and racial

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

It appears the US/Israel-Iran war has started again... or perhaps more accurately, it never really ended.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

The award-winning historian Elizabeth Thompson, interviewed by @BeirutCalling :

"My first hypothesis is that the investigation of why the Arab world lacks democracy today must start with the extension of European colonization after World War I, not Islamic culture or the behavior of particular dictators since independence.

Second, a related takeaway is to ask new questions about the rise of authoritarian, violent, and religiously radical movements in the region. My current research explores the ways in which such movements were empowered after the violent destruction of democratic movements after World War I. This puts modern Middle Eastern political history in the same analytical frame of studies examining the rise of anti-liberal, anti-democratic movements in Europe during the same period."

Overall, a rich and fascinating interview.
https://t.co/wm9Doy1W98

[Karim Maiche @KMaiche]

@KanniainenVesa Missään nimessähän tiedot eivät indikoi miten yhteiskunta suhtautuu etnisiin vähemmistöihin ja mitä siitä seuraa yhteenkuuluvuuden näkökulmasta. Jos kohtaat rasismia ja ekskluusiota, miksi haluaisit osallistua tässä?

[Karim Maiche @KMaiche]

@AtteKaleva Valtiot, juutalaiset, muslimit, Khanin lausunnot ... Kaikki taas iloisesti Atella ihan sikin sokin sekaisin

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If this won't make your blood boil, then I don't know what will.

We unfortunately have school shootings in the US.

But imagine if the shooter actually is a US soldier or someone protected by police.

That is what these Palestinian children faced when they were being shot at and killed in their own school by an Israeli soldier or settler.

[IWN @A7_Mirza]

🇲🇱Military map of #Mali, April 26.

Attacks in major cities were repelled, but the situation remains tense. The possibility of renewed militant attacks persists at any moment.

Malian army lost Tessalit, Agholhak & kidal.

👉 Read the full report here: https://t.co/st50LzzSZx

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

Trump is wise to have extended the ceasefire indefinitely. Bombing Iran isn’t going to extract more concessions.

But neither will the U.S. blockade.

It’s a game of Chicken in the Strait of Hormuz, and everyone knows who will back down first: Trump, if he has any sense left.

That’s *not* because of his history of TACOs but because of the structure of the situation between the U.S. and Iran. Any rational U.S. president would and should back down to reopen Hormuz. If anything,Trump may be *less* willing to fold because he’s so sensitive about his reputation.

But staying in an unwinnable fight just to save face isn’t strength — it’s weakness.

The structure of the situation favors Iran, not the U.S., because Iran has so much less to lose by keeping Hormuz closed.

The U.S. and the rest of the world have everything to lose, because an indefinite Hormuz closure will eventually trigger a global economic meltdown. According to many industry sources, we might already be over the precipice of irreversible economic harm.

Forget the midterms — the potential economic consequences swamp that in importance. It could ruin more than Trump’s presidency or legacy — it could ruin the U.S. economy in balance-of-power-shifting ways, given how much more oil intensive U.S. economic output is compared to peers like China.

For Iran, a prolonged blockade will sting, but exorbitant oil prices will make it easier to export oil overland, through smuggling and other channels. In 2024, over $1 billion dollars worth of Iranian oil was smuggled over the border to Pakistan. High prices + existential political stakes for Iran will open up all sorts of adaptations for selling Iranian oil to the highest bidder.

But even if the U.S. blockade stopped all Iranian oil sales, Iran will not collapse. It is fighting for its sovereignty as a country — and the U.S. war has only strengthened its regime. Iran doesn’t need massive oil revenues to continue resisting and menacing Hormuz. Just look at how the Houthis have outlasted withering U.S. bombing campaigns for years, despite possessing the resource base of Yemen, an impoverished county over which they haven’t even consolidated full control.

Iran is used to privation. It is used to economic shocks. It has endured them for years under the force of U.S. sanctions, and its more motivated to resist than ever.

So Trump’s blockade is a losing fight. The only question is how long will it take Trump to realize he needs to scale back his maximalist negotiating demands, and how much economic suffering will we all endure until he accepts reality?

@defpriorities

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This doesn’t have enough shares.

Israel committed 220 ceasefire violations in Lebanon in 3 days.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Trump caves and agrees to extend the ceasefire, while presenting it as a function of the Iranian government being in disarray.

Very importantly, he is also extending the ceasefire INDEFINITELY, which reflects the outcome I have argued is the most likely: No deal, no sanctions relief, no nuclear compromise, no return to war, while Iran continues to control the Strait.

Not a stable situation, but one in which Trump pockets the central thing he sought - exiting the war - while Iran is bereft of the main thing it was looking for: Sanctions lifting.

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Israel now occupies more of Lebanon than Russia occupies in Ukraine.

[Omar El-Ayat @oelayat]

Very revealing that the president of the European Commission is now openly casting NATO-allied Turkey as a threat to Europe on par with Russia and China.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

Someone needs to tell this guy the days when Western countries spell out what countries of the global south “must” do are over.

[PIC | صـور من التـاريخ @inpic0]

#صورة من #الجزائر عام 1957

المناضلة الجزائرية ضد الإحتلال الفرنسي "زوليخة الشايب" مربوطة إلى سيارة عسكرية فرنسية بعد القبض عليها، وتصويرها وهي جالسة على الأرض مقيدة بالحديد قبل أن يتم جرها بهذا الوضع في شوارع الجزائر أمام الملأ لترويع الشعب وكان ينادى فيهم بأن كل من يتمرد على #فرنسا سيكون هذا جزاءه وأن فرنسا لن ترحم أحداً حتى لو كن نساء.
ورغم تعذيبها لمدة (10) أيام دون أنقطاع لم تكشف اي معلومة وبعدها تم إعدامها رمياً من طائرة هيليكوبتر
وعثر احد الرعاة على جثتها بالصدفة بعد مدة ..

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Israelis are very unhappy with the imminent ceasefire with Lebanon. Netanyahu is being grilled by politicians and residents of the north. Ceasefires are supposed to be good things. Not in Israel. https://t.co/SpXZ1l1R77

[Mériame @Msemen2020]

At the independence, Algerian Jews chose the French citizenship.

They didn’t ‘disappear’, they chose to leave Algeria.

[Amitav Acharya @AmitavAcharya]

What could come after a rules-based world order? My interview with German news agency DW partly reported here:

Countries that belong to the Global South have felt for a long time that the guardrails built by the West to protect the rules-based order never really benefited them in any meaningful way. 
"It was a very selective club. It mainly benefited the United States and its Western allies," Amitav Acharya, a professor at the school of international service at the American University in Washington and author of the book The Once and Future World Order, told DW. He says there is a long-standing perception in the countries of the Global South that "the rules are rigged against them. They did benefit to some extent, but they never really had agency. They never really got the place under the sun, so to speak."

https://t.co/EkTSpPXNSP

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Finally, The U.S. has fully withdrawn from Syria.

The final soldiers departed an air base for Jordan.

Wonder why 🤷‍♂️

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Everyone should see this: since “ceasefire” over 75 US logistics flights into the Gulf. Notice how much depends on Europe’s bases. Shows US preparing for more escalation and its global power would decline markedly without Europe.

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

Europe has 'maybe six weeks of jet fuel left' says International Energy Agency Chief Fatih Birol

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers https://t.co/mC3lBaN6ft