Monique Beadle

Dir. of US Policy & Diplomacy @JIJ_Israel. Former asylum lawyer & advocate for peace in Congo. 🇺🇸 🇨🇩 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇹🇭 🇸🇨 🇮🇷

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

WHEN YOU HAVE TO SEND SOLDIERS TO PROTECT SYNAGOGUES, YOUR CITY IS NO LONGER FREE.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

Exhibit A in why it's impossible to make peace with a muqawama regime. We're out of the realm of logic and interests, sucked into the realm of fantasy, nihilism, and honor:

[Babak Vahdad @BabakVahdad]

Mojtaba Khamenei’s funeral message is worth reading carefully. It is not simply an emotional tribute to his father: it offers a first glimpse into the religious and strategic narrative likely to shape the next phase of the Islamic Republic.

- The central theme is unmistakably Karbala. The late Supreme Leader is described as Husayni in every dimension: he thought like Husayn, fought like Husayn, lived like Husayn and ultimately embraced martyrdom like Husayn. This is not only religious symbolism. It embeds his death within the foundational narrative of Shia political identity, transforming a military defeat into a sacred act of sacrifice.

- the second pillar of the message is equally important: revenge. Mojtaba does not portray retaliation as a political choice or a matter of state policy. He defines it as the will of the nation and, above all, as a divine mission. He explicitly says it will not depend on him or on any current official, and that “free people around the world” will each carry out part of this mission.

- This language is significant because it shifts revenge from the realm of immediate military retaliation to that of a long-term religious obligation. In other words, the message suggests that justice for the “martyrs” is not tied to a specific timeline or battlefield but becomes part of a broader ideological project that can be pursued by various different actors over time.

- Whether or not this translates into concrete action is a separate question. But, in my view, as a statement of political theology, the speech is highly revealing: Mojtaba is framing continuity through the twin concepts of Karbala and enduring retribution.

#Iran

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

@OliverH60057605 @AmYisraelChai_X the watermark on the photo, for one. the signs on the shops in the background, and the variations in the terrain. gaza is flat. tulkarm is in the hills.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

@rich_goldberg Vahidi orchestrated the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires. He can extend his arm across the oceans. It's dangerously naive of the "restrainers" to dismiss intel on him as Israeli whining.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

@UNSRVAW Advertising your demand that a survivor of CRSV & prolonged captivity meet UNACCOMPANIED with a UN rapp who has openly DENIED her reality is deeply unprofessional. Israeli survivors are people, not props in a credibility rehab campaign. Take the meeting on her terms, not yours.

[Rom Braslavski @RomBraslavski]

סשה טרופנוב וספיר כהן מתחתנים.
חוזר - סשה טרופנוב וספיר כהן מתחתנים.
וואו. מאיפה אני אתחיל ?
סשה אחי היקר. היום אתה הופך לגבר!היום אתה מתגבר על חיי הרווקות ועושה את הצעד הנועז ביותר שגבר יכל לעשות ולהתחתן . מזל טוב חבר יקר.

סשה - ההיכרות שלנו מעזה היא אמנם קצרה אבל חקוקה עמוק בזיכרון.
היינו ביחד באותו חדר , מוחזקים כ״אסירים״ של הגיאהד האיסלאמי , אחרי שנה של שבי, בתוך רפיח , רגע לפני הפלישה הגדולה של צה״ל .
ודווקא בתקופת זמן הזאת הקדוש ברוך הוא שלח אותך אליי .

איך התגלגלו האירועים ואנחנו לא ביחד באותו חדר מסריח עם עכברושים ברפיח, אלא מתחת לחופה שלך, מתחתן עם אהובת ליבך שנחטפה ביחד איתך!! ומתחתן איתה .
אתם לא זוג יונים, אתם זוג לוחמים. ואני מעריץ אותכם.

זוכר את הלילה האחרון שלנו ביחד ברפיח? איך המבנים קרסו עלינו אחד אחרי השני? אנחנו ניצלנו בנס אחי.
זוכר שלא ידענו אם אנחנו לכודים ברפיח או שיצליחו להבריח אותנו ? אז הצליחו. תודה לאל.
זוכר איך אבו יאסר המסריחול דחס אותנו בתוך תא מטען מדרכו לרפיח לדיר אל סאלח? זוכר ?? והיום, אנחנו ביחד, לא ברפיח, לא דחוסים בתא מטען , אלא משוחררים ואתה בחליפת חתן מהודרת מתחתן עם ספיר . כמה דיברת עליה אחי.

אין מאושר ממני ללוות אותך ביום זה , ומאחל לכם להביא ילדים קטנים ושמחים ושלא יידעו רע. שלא יידעו מלחמה בעזרת השם.

אבא שלך גאה בך מלמעלה אחי היקר❤️✊🏾

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Wow, this is how the Islamic Republic received Arab and regional delegations at Khamenei’s funeral: they weren’t welcomed with diplomacy. They were handed ideological marching orders disguised as Quranic verses.

Saudi Arabia got a verse about unbelievers facing believers in battle.
Turkey got "those who fight are above those who sit."
Lebanon got "stop making excuses."

Qatar: "Repent, and you shall be forgiven. "

Hezbollah: "you are superior, don't grieve."
Hamas: "your dead fulfilled their covenant. The rest are waiting their turn."
Houthis: "believers who fought and never weakened."

Even those who sought engagement weren’t treated as partners. They were lectured, judged, and assigned ideological roles.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

Sad day to be an American Presbyterian, when Hamas is congratulating your General Assembly for endorsing the diplomatic double game of its nihilistic death cult:

https://t.co/3o2c6GA22X

[Adam Milstein @AdamMilstein]

The scandal surrounding the Committee to Protect Journalists is staggering.

After first quietly removing names from its Gaza database of alleged journalists killed by the IDF, CPJ ultimately had to recall the entire list after public pressure exposed that numerous individuals it had classified as journalists were members or operatives of terrorist organizations. These terrorists were named by the terror groups themselves — not even by the IDF.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

After Hezbollah fired a rocket at the children of Majdal Shams, Rabeea sprinted to the football field, where he found the charred remains of his son, Ameer. His own son's life lost, he turned immediately to save the lives of injured children nearby.

A hero. A voice for peace:

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

“To achieve peace, we must eliminate Hezbollah, which seeks to bring death, destruction, and suffering to all civilians.”

— Rabeea Abu Saleh, father of Ameer, one of 12 Druze children killed by a Hezbollah rocket while playing soccer, spoke at the UNHRC on behalf of UN Watch.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

Congratulations @EllieCohanim! A great choice and great timing. A true champion for the Jewish people & Iranian people. Her voice is sorely needed inside UNHQ.

[Ambassador Mike Waltz @USAmbUN]

Proud to have @EllieCohanim on our side at @USUN.

Few know the Iranian regime like Ellie. Born in Tehran, raised in Queens—just like President Trump—she’s a fighter.

For America. Against antisemitism. For our freedom.

Glad to have her in the fight.

[Ronnie Chatah @thebeirutbanyan]

We have two choices: an MOU that seals our fate as an Iranian protectorate; or a tripartite framework - with its word choices & limitations - that ends Israeli occupation with sub-state disarmament.

The existential threat to Lebanon is not Zionism, colonialism or capitalism.

It’s Hezbollah’s weapons.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

Laith Bal'ous is worse than a sellout. He allowed HTS to invade and burn down dozens of Druze villages. Blood on his hands.

The comments are telling.

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

Syrian President a-Sharaa has appointed his share of 70 MPs to the 210-seat Syrian parliament, after 140 were selected by government-appointed electoral committees.
Notably, a-Sharaa appointed Laith Bal'ous as one of the 2 representatives to Sweidaa'. I've spoken to multiple people in and from Sweidaa': even those who oppose al-Hijri and his militias, see Bal'ous as a sellout and tales about his criminality against Druze civilians abound. He does not enjoy a support base inside Sweidaa', unlike more neutral professional Druze figures, including the former Druze Minister of Agriculture, Amjad Badr (recently fired to be replaced by an HTS senior official).
The Druze make up about 3% of the Syrian population. The Syrian government currently has 0 Druze ministers. The Syrian parliament has 1 MP (so 0.47% of parliament is Druze).
Damascus cannot treat Swediaa' as an area that needs to be subjugated. The government is yet to apologize for the massacres last year, or demonstrate that it is prosecuting the perpetrators of these war crimes. The appointment of Bal'ous signals to the population of Sweidaa' that they must either be loyal puppets (like Bal'ous) or they are not welcomed inside the Syrian polity.

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

This was long overdue:

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

It's never too late to do the right thing.

I thank @IsraeliPM Netanyahu for his support, and the government ministers for their unanimous approval of the resolution I initiated for Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

Thus, Israel joins 32 countries that have fulfilled a moral duty by recognizing the historical truth, and rejecting attempts to deny it.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Exposing Hamas’s Use of a Primary Gaza Hospital for Repression: Hamas’s intelligence and internal security services are in full fascist mode across the Gaza Strip, beating, interrogating, and threatening anyone they suspect may join the June 26 protests against their rule. A few friends of mine in Gaza City have already been summoned. They were told explicitly by al‑Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protestors, they will be executed under “revolutionary conditions” and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death.

And where were some of my friends interrogated, threatened, and placed on house arrest? Inside Al‑Ahli Arab Hospital or the Ma'amadani/Baptist Hospital in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Yes, the same hospital that grabbed global headlines early in the war after a faulty Islamic Jihad rocket fell and caused an explosion, which killed hundreds of people. That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.

This is criminal on every level. And it raises a basic question: if overwhelming, well‑corroborated evidence shows Hamas using Gaza’s medical facilities to hide among civilians and enforce its armed rule, violating the October 2025 ceasefire, why have the UN and international medical and humanitarian NGOs and charities remained silent? Why has no one suspended operations until Hamas withdraws from the hospitals they support?

I want every follower and every official who sees this to contact and tag the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNRWA, the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and any organization supplying Gaza’s hospitals. Demand that they confront Hamas’s presence in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital/ Ma'amadani / Baptist Hospital and every facility they fund, staff, and sustain. Even though the Episcopal Church/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem manages Al‑Ahli, every medical facility in Gaza depends on international aid, equipment, and expertise, during the war and even more so since the ceasefire.

It is time to get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals. It is time to support Gazans risking their lives to protest the Islamist fascists who have destroyed their society for twenty years. And it is time for the international community to finally recognize that Hamas cannot be trusted to uphold any agreement. The group is committed to a last‑stand ideology – much like Hitler in his bunker – regardless of how many civilians in Gaza suffer or die as a result.

[Samir Geagea @DrSamirGeagea]

سعادة نائب رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأميركية
السيد جاي دي فانس @JDVance المحترم،
تحية طيبة وبعد،

اطّلعت باهتمام وتقدير على تصريحكم الذي عبّرتم فيه عن مودّتكم واهتمامكم بمسيحيي لبنان، فرأيت، بصفتي رئيس حزب "القوات اللبنانية"، أكبر حزب مسيحي في لبنان، أن أتوجّه إليكم بهذه الرسالة لأعرب عن خالص امتناني لكلماتكم، ولما تعكسه من صداقة صادقة واهتمام عميق بمسيحيي لبنان، واستطرادا بجميع اللبنانيين.
لقد شكّل المسيحيون اللبنانيون، عبر تاريخ لبنان الحديث، وسيستمرون في تشكيل عنصر استقرار وانفتاح واعتدال وازدهار ثقافي وحضاري في هذا الشرق. وقد تميّز لبنان، بفضل تعدديته، وحرياته العامة، ونظامه المنفتح، ودوره الثقافي والاقتصادي، بمكانة فريدة جعلت منه مساحة إشعاع في محيط مضطرب.
صحيح أن العقود الأربعة الماضية كانت من أصعب المراحل التي عرفها اللبنانيون عموماً، والمسيحيون خصوصاً، نتيجة قيام "حزب الله"، كتنظيم عسكري وأمني، بمصادرة القرار الوطني وإضعاف المؤسسات الشرعية، ومنع قيام دولة فعلية وقادرة، فضلاً عن زجّ لبنان في نزاعات وحروب ارتبطت بأجندات إيرانية لا تعبّر عن مصالح اللبنانيين ولا عن تطلعاتهم. وقد انعكس ذلك سلباً على الاقتصاد اللبناني، وقلّص فرص العمل، ودفع أعداداً كبيرة من اللبنانيين، وبينهم نسبة وازنة من المسيحيين، إلى الهجرة بحثاً عن الأمان والاستقرار وفرص الحياة الكريمة.
ومع ذلك، فإن المسيحيين الذين واجهوا، عبر تاريخهم الطويل، القديم والحديث، تحدياتٍ ومحنًا أشدّ وطأة، تمكنوا دائمًا من تجاوزها بفضل تمسّكهم بأرضهم، وإيمانهم بالحرية، وإصرارهم على البقاء في وطنهم وصون هويتهم الوطنية والحضارية. وهم اليوم، كما بالأمس، ثابتون على إيمانهم وقناعاتهم، وصامدون في مواجهة التحديات، ومصممون، مع سائر اللبنانيين، على استعادة دولتهم ومؤسساتهم وسيادتهم الكاملة، مستندين إلى دعم أصدقائهم في الشرق والغرب، وفي مقدمهم الولايات المتحدة الأميركية.
وفي هذا السياق، نعتقد أن أكبر مساهمة يمكن للولايات المتحدة الأميركية أن تقدمها للبنان في هذه المرحلة الدقيقة تتمثل في دعم الدولة اللبنانية ومؤسساتها الشرعية بوصفها المرجعية الوطنية الوحيدة، وحصر أي تفاوض أو مقاربة للملف اللبناني بالدولة اللبنانية وحدها، وإبعاد إيران نهائياً عن الملف اللبناني، بما يساعد اللبنانيين على استعادة قرارهم الوطني بصورة نهائية، ويحول دون استمرار أي تدخلات خارجية في شؤونهم الداخلية.
كما أن دعم الدولة اللبنانية الحالية في بسط سلطتها الكاملة على جميع أراضيها، وحصر السلاح بيد المؤسسات الشرعية وحدها، وإنهاء الوجود العسكري والأمني لـ"حزب الله"، تشكل في نظرنا أكبر مساهمة يمكن تقديمها لمسيحيي لبنان ولجميع اللبنانيين، لأنها تفتح الباب أمام بناء الدولة التي نتطلع إليها جميعاً: دولة فعلية سيدة، حرة، قوية، وقادرة على تأمين الأمن والاستقرار والازدهار لجميع مواطنيها.
اسمحوا لي، في الختام، أن أجدد لكم، باسمي وباسم شريحة واسعة من اللبنانيين، عموماً، والمسيحيين خصوصاً، الذين يتطلعون إلى قيام دولة فعلية وقادرة في وطنهم، عميق الشكر والتقدير لما أبديتموه من مودّة واهتمام تجاه مسيحيي لبنان، آملاً أن تبقى الولايات المتحدة الأميركية شريكاً أساسياً في مساعدة لبنان على استعادة دوره الطبيعي كنموذج للحرية والتعددية والسلام في الشرق الأوسط.
وتفضلوا بقبول فائق الاحترام والتقدير.

سمير جعجع
رئيس حزب القوات اللبنانية

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

Bribing the IRGC to "rein in" Hezbollah is destined to fail. Miserably. A rookie mistake.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@VP: "We do believe — of course it's going to require a lot of hard work — that we can get to a place where Lebanon's territorial integrity and sovereignty is protected, Israel's security is protected. That's going to require some coordination with the Lebanese armed forces, and also, it's going to require the Iranians to rein in Hezbollah. That's all the sort of things that we were talking about yesterday — and again, I think that we got much further compared to where we were just 24 hours ago."

[Monique Beadle @Monique_Beadle]

I was in the room for this. In the 3 years I've spent @UNHQ, never have I seen a UN staffer SHOUT over the ambassador of a UN Member State, even in the face of withering criticism of their work. Is this a novel interpretation of UN protocol, which applies only to Israel?

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

Watch: During a UN discussion, an attempt was made by Special Representative @_VanessaFrazier to interrupt my remarks and shut down legitimate criticism. I refused to be silenced.

[Karim Franceschi @karimfranceschi]

First they came for the Alawites, and I did not speak out, because I was not an Alawite.
Then they came for the Druze, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Druze.
Then they came for the Kurds, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Kurd.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

I don't think people fully grasp how significant the current "deal" situation with Iran really is.

Back in 2015, after the Obama administration negotiated the JCPOA, Congress passed the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) with near-unanimous support.

The principle was simple: ANY major agreement involving Iran's nuclear program and/or sanctions relief was far too important to be handled solely by the executive branch.

Because many of the sanctions at issue were originally enacted by Congress as a national security measure, lawmakers required that any such agreement be submitted to Congress within 5 days & subjected to a review period. 🧵(1/3)