LeShaque

Earthican. Activist. Rebel. Refugee. Project, media development, and digital security consultant. Tweets reflect own views, RTs do not.

[Maysaloon @Maysaloon]

Free Hassan Akkad. His only crime was to demand accountability.

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

The problem with these initiatives is that they see the absence of peace as personal failings rather than a product of an unjust system in which one state is allowed to keep another people subjugated, kept flush with weapons, and granted complete impunity.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Förhoppningsvis följer ni med...

[Ebba Busch @BuschEbba]

För tidigt att räkna ut L och ännu mindre Simona Mohamsson på grund av en opinionsmätning. Det är fel väg att gå och otacksamt mot ett parti som vi styrt landet tillsammans med på ett förtjänstfullt sätt. Deras bidrag kring bla skola, EU och demokratifrågor är viktiga byggstenar i samarbetet. Nu krävs kraftsamling från norr till söder för att lyfta det blågula laget. Jag tror comeback och har visat förut att det går. https://t.co/1r7a2nJcLL

[Vivian @suchnerve]

“All of the best-informed people are profoundly depressed these days” is exactly as ill an omen as you think it is.

[حورانية🏳️‍ @HolisticMuslim]

The Uyghur case tears my heart apart. What a lonely cause. Heritage destroyed, religion denied, language erased. And a quiet Ummah

[Asteris Masouras 正义 @asteris]

Western feminists will pretend to not see this too

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Let's decode what actually happened here.

Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."

The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.

This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.

Now watch the response.

Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.

But here is the part that matters.

Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?

Because it serves both.

Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.

Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.

And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.

Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."

The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.

And the war continues exactly as planned.

This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.

Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.

Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.

The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.

Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.

Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.

[Lema @Lemapal]

The EU’s new “extremist settler” package is not accountability. It is containment.

By inventing a category of “extremist settlers,” the EU pretends the problem is a few violent individuals, not the entire illegal settlement regime: land theft, annexation, military protection, trade, finance, surveillance tech, AI systems, and European complicity.

There is no “good settler” and “bad settler” under international law. Settlements are illegal. The regime sustaining them is illegal. Selectively sanctioning a few actors while maintaining business as usual with Israel is not courage — it is a shield.

This package proves the EU’s real function: managing Israel’s impunity, not ending it.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Didn't you people get the Nobel Peace Prize for ridding Syria of its chemical weapons more than a decade ago?

[OPCW @OPCW]

An OPCW expert team has discovered a significant amount of undeclared chemical weapons and related materials and documentation in the course of its ongoing deployment in the Syrian Arab Republic.

OPCW Director-General Arias commends Syria’s continued commitment to the Chemical Weapons Convention.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/IITJKbvNIn

[Rami @RamiSafadi93]

Here is an update on Assad's new city he had planned on top of the ruins of displaced/killed Syrians' destroyed homes.
https://t.co/GC5zjxulOU

[Alexander Schwarz @Schwarz__Alex]

German arms exports to Israel remain at unprecedented levels. Together with human rights organizations, we call on the German government to end its arms exports contributing to grave crimes. For a comprehensive and just peace based on a one-law solution - without double standards

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Performative accountability. More empty moves by the French.

[FRANCE 24 – Breaking @BreakingF24]

🔴 BREAKING - Far-right Israeli security minister Ben-Gvir banned from French territory: FM https://t.co/F0ffdKEGd2

[Dalal Mawadدلال معوض @dalalmawad]

Israel’s impunity and sense of exceptionalism primes European states’ commitment to protecting their own citizens. Even when their nationals face abuse or torture, European governments fail to respond with meaningful action.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

It's good that they're talking but they are all ignoring that Israel had no right abduct people on the high seas and steal their ships in the first place!

[Yvette Cooper @YvetteCooperMP]

I am truly appalled at the video posted by Israeli Cabinet Minister Ben-Gvir taunting those involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

This violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated.

We are in touch with the families of a number of British nationals involved to provide them with consular support.

We have demanded an explanation from the Israeli authorities and made clear their obligations to protect the rights of our citizens and all those involved.

[Oğuz Arıkboğa @OguzArikboga]

Last week France went along with the decision to drop Ben-Gvir (and Smotrich) from the proposed EU sanctions list. Paris has also refrained from imposing its own national sanctions on Ben-Gvir.

These repeated public statements of indignation therefore ring rather hollow.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

It's the sharing of video evidence that's the problem not the torture they are perpetrating.

[LBCI Lebanon English @LBCI_News_EN]

#MiddleEast: #Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday condemned a video shared by the country's far-right national security minister showing detained #activists with their hands bound and forced to kneel.

https://t.co/LjnI1TyQAv

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Can someone teach me how to set up a bet on those platforms that this will not actually happen?

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Can someone teach me how to set up a bet on those platforms that this will not actually happen?

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

[LeShaque @LeShaque]

Seriously wouldn't count Sweden's opposition as progressive. Like, incredibly not so. The Social Democrats can practically be sued by the fascists for copyright infringement.

[Nassreddin 🍉 نصر الدين @Nassreddin2002]

In February, the progressive opposition led with 6 points

The right thought they could reverse this by further cosying up to far-right SD. "We are a united & stable, the opposition is chaotically split" as message

Instead, the opposition's lead has now grown to almost 11 points