Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸

Lover of all things CLE. Public affairs professional with keen interest in the Middle East where I was born & raised. Maronite. VP, External Affairs @CHNHousing

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

To my Jewish friends, coworkers and acquaintances: I have your back. I always will. #IsraelHamasWar #Israel #Jewish #Hamas #HamasAreTerrorists #IStandWithIsrael #IranIsraelConflict #Hezbolla

[Elisha Wiesel @ElishaWiesel]

My father raised me with Jewish observance. Shma at night, Kiddush on Friday night. But the earliest memories I have of reading a sacred text with my father aren't of Genesis, or the Exodus from Egypt, or even of my Bar Mitzvah parsha.

They're of reading the Declaration of Independence with him every July 4th.

He would read them aloud with the same musical, passionate voice that compelled the attention of listeners at state affairs or class day ceremonies. We were a small family of four, often in those early years with another family we were close to, but we felt like a jury listening to the case that he was making in the highest of courts.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal!" he would insist, his eyes meeting ours -- and then pause, waiting to see if any of us would dare to challenge him. I didn't understand many of the specific accusations that the Founding Fathers were laying at Britain's feet, but I knew by the end that my father believed America had the protection of divine Providence, and that he pledged his life, fortune and honor to this country that had taken him in, that had given him a home when he was stateless.

To our fellow Americans, Shabbat Shalom and happy 250th anniversary of these blessed United States of America.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@philipgiraldi Whose payroll are you on? Same as Nabih Berri, it seems.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

This traitor who’s on the Iranian payroll knows his days are numbered. For once in your life, Mr. Berri, do the right thing.

[This Is Beirut @ThisIsBeirut_]

🗣️ Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri claimed that the Lebanon-Israel agreement will not be implemented in its current form.

- We will not approve the Washington agreement between Lebanon and Israel

- The majority of Lebanese and non-Lebanese are against this agreement, and there are no prerequisites for its success.

- We can rely upon the U.S.-Iran agreement.

- The agreement was designed to sow discord among the Lebanese, and we will not accept it.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@ejmalrai National balance? You mean foreign/Iranian control versus Lebanese sovereignty. Don’t you?

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

About time!

[Mwarnism ⳩🇻🇦🇱🇧 @Maronidd]

GO JOSEPH AOUN

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Gov. Mike DeWine on the Mullin v. Doe: "It's a mistake for a number of reasons…You cannot fly into Port-au-Prince…It is clearly not safe…It is worse than it has ever been…It's not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses, and put deep roots in this country and really are contributing — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake."

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

The UAE does not tolerate terrorists; it deletes them from the equation.Iraq is now arresting members of the Islamic regime. Lebanon has normalized relations with Israel and is pushing Hezbollah out.Meanwhile, in the EU, the UK, and across the West, Muslim Brotherhood terrorists get upgraded to “activists,” the IRGC plays street politics, and antisemitism is treated like a fashionable opinion instead of a crime. That is not tolerance. That is political cowardice wearing a human-rights costume.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@amjadt25 Yes, the world is upside down. Hopefully the West will catch up.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@IhabHassane @JulietMosesNZ Thugs and traitors

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

Amen to this! #Lebanon is done with #Hezbollah and its evil deeds on behalf of the #Iranian regime. Enough.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Lebanese TV Host Walid Abboud to Hezbollah:

“Leave us. And take your weapons, your drones, your rockets, your mouthpieces, your flags, your Supreme Leader, your Iran and your Resistance with you.”

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇱🇧 All Christian crosses were smashed in an Orthodox cemetery in the predominantly Muslim Northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

Christians continue to be the most persecuted group in the Middle East.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@EliAfriatISR Golda!

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@StateDept @AmbMudallali Rubio is right.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@KimGhattas @kenaviba We have lost so much.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@EylonALevy Loving this.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@CanaaKnight I will tell the Shias where to go.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

This is a good development.

[Antoinette A. @AntoinetteXlb]

At a decisive moment for #Lebanon, Sunni MPs reaffirm commitment to the state, its institutions, and its sovereign decision-making.

1) Support for direct negotiations is now clearly endorsed.

2) A unified parliamentary position emerges on a strategic file.

This is the first such alignment since the exit of Saad Hariri — establishing a new national baseline on this issue.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@BecharaGerges @fmakhzoumi Great news

[Maya Khadra (PdV) @MayaKhadra]

1914-18, en même temps que le génocide arménien, il y eut « Kafno ». Génocide contre les Mont-Libanais. Plus de 30% de la population maronite fut décimée, certains historiens parlent de 50%.
L’Empire ottoman avait saisi les troupeaux, les grains dans les silos ainsi que les médicaments et les médecins. Il pratiqua ensuite un siège des plus étouffant. La famine fut bien orchestrée.
1914-1918 fut la période des génocides au Moyen-Orient.
N’oublions pas, pendant la même période, « Sayfo » le génocide des Assyriens.
Des années plus tard, ce fut la Shoah en Europe.
L’histoire de ces groupes ethniques est pétrie de douleur. Pour la mémoire de leurs victimes, le Moyen-Orient devrait être un sanctuaire de paix et de stabilité.

[Laura Boustani 🇱🇧🇺🇸 @LauraBoustani]

@prolifechloe @MarounTurLevnon This famine killed my great grandfather.