Nad Kanaan

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

There are many shocking provisions in the scandalous “agreement” signed by Lebanon and the Israeli regime, but none more shocking than point 13 whereby Lebanon purports to give up its international legal claims against the Israeli occupation. But a news flash for the US-Israel Axis: Article 47 of the 4th Geneva Convention explicitly states that protected persons in occupied territories cannot be deprived of the benefits of the Convention“by any agreement concluded between the authorities of the occupied territories and the Occupying Power." The rights and protections guaranteed under IHL
cannot legally be signed away or contractually waived, not by Lebanese officials, not by the occupying Israeli regime, and not by its complicit US ally. Point 13 is null and void as a matter of law, and the other provisions of this absurd surrender deal will eventually follow it into the trash bin of history.

[Arthur Sarradin | آرثر سري الدين @ArthurSarradin]

🔍🚨Fake news (bis) de l’ambassadeur d’Israël en France

Plutôt que de s’acharner à m’accuser nommément sans apporter la moindre preuve… je vous en donne.

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[Arthur Sarradin | آرثر سري الدين @ArthurSarradin]

Le corps d’Amal vient d’être retrouvé par les secouristes, après avoir été empêchés pendant des heures de la sauver.

L’armée israélienne a délibérément ciblé et tué une autre consœur aujourd’hui. Un crime de guerre.

[L'Orient-Le Jour @LOrientLeJour]

🎥 Depuis 2024, l’armée israélienne détruit systématiquement plusieurs villages situés dans la bande frontalière du Liban-Sud. Bombardements, dynamitages, maisons rasées : au-delà des bâtiments, c’est tout un patrimoine, une mémoire familiale et des décennies d’histoire qui disparaissent.

À travers ce nouveau dossier de L'Orient-Le Jour, des habitants racontent les jours heureux dans ce qu’ils considéraient comme leur petit coin de paradis, aujourd’hui menacé d’effacement.

Un travail inédit à découvrir ici : https://t.co/DwGDXzU0JS

[L'Orient-Le Jour @LOrientLeJour]

🚨 #Liban | L'école professionnelle publique des Martyrs de Khiam (Liban-Sud), située à Wadi al-Asafir, à l'entrée sud de la ville, a été complètement détruite par l'armée israélienne hier soir. Celle-ci a placé des engins explosifs à l'intérieur du bâtiment, avant de le faire exploser.

[L'Orient-Le Jour @LOrientLeJour]

🚨 #Liban Les hôpitaux libanais « submergés » par le nombre de victimes des frappes israéliennes.

Le ministre de la Santé Rakan Nasreddine a affirmé que les frappes israéliennes ont fait des centaines de morts et de blessés à travers le Liban, selon l'Agence nationale d'information.

[Le20h-France Télévisions @le20hfrancetele]

🇱🇧DOCUMENT : les secouristes libanais sous les bombes. Alors qu’Israël intensifie ses opérations, nos équipes ont pu suivre des secouristes dans la ville de Nabatyeh. L’un d’eux a découvert que son propre fils faisait partie des victimes. #JT20h

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: President Trump just told 450 million Europeans: sign my deal by Thursday or I cut your gas. And if you think this is impulsive, you are not paying attention. This is the most calculated energy play in American history.

Qatar’s LNG is offline. Force Majeure. Ras Laffan shut after Iranian drones hit it on Day 3. Seventeen percent of global LNG capacity gone for 3 to 5 years. Russia’s pipeline gas to Europe was severed after Ukraine. Norway is maxed. Europe’s LNG prices have surged 35 to 50 percent since Hormuz closed. One supplier remains at scale: the United States. Trump’s ambassador to the EU just told the Parliament: ratify the $750 billion trade deal without amendments by Thursday March 26, or lose “favorable access” to American LNG.

Now decode the strategic geopolitical chess game which is being played in realtime.

Saturday night, Trump posted a 48-hour ultimatum threatening to obliterate Iranian power plants. That was not about Iran. That was about oil prices. He needed them high enough to terrify Europe into ratifying the LNG deal, but not so high that American consumers revolted before the midterms. The ultimatum spiked Brent past $113 and WTI past $100 on Sunday. Monday morning, Trump posted about “productive conversations” and paused the power plant strikes for five days. Oil crashed over 10 percent in hours. WTI hit $89. The S&P surged $2 trillion.

He spiked oil to create the fear. Then crashed it to create the relief. The fear makes Europe sign. The relief makes American voters forgive the war. Both moves serve the same president. Both happened within 36 hours. Both were executed with social media posts, not missiles.

The $750 billion deal is the permanent monetisation of Europe’s energy vulnerability. LNG. Oil. Civil nuclear. Locked in until 2028. The EU had been delaying ratification for months. Three wars removed every alternative: Iran removed Qatar, Ukraine removed Russia, Norway’s geology removed Norway. What remains is American LNG. Trump is not selling gas. He is selling the absence of alternatives.

The 5-day power-plant pause expires Saturday March 28. The EU Parliament votes Thursday March 26. Europe must ratify American energy dependency two days before the war might escalate again. If the pause collapses Saturday and Iran executes Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” regional energy infrastructure, European LNG prices spike after the deal is already signed. Trump gets the $750 billion commitment at crisis pricing, then potentially triggers the next crisis 48 hours later. The deal locks in before the leverage expires.

This is Trump Doctrine in its purest form. He does not separate trade from security from energy from markets. He operates them as one instrument. The war degrades Iran. The degradation closes Hormuz. The closure spikes energy. The spike terrifies Europe. The terror forces the deal. The deal locks in $750 billion. The pause crashes oil. The crash rallies stocks. The rally preserves midterm support. Every move funds the next move.

He used the words “Department of War” in the pause announcement. Not Defence. The pre-1947 name. The name that tells Europe: the man offering you gas can resume bombing power plants on Saturday.

Yesterday Russia signed a deal to build Vietnam’s first nuclear plant. Today Trump threatens to cut Europe’s gas. Two great powers selling energy security to two desperate continents during the same war. Both profit from the crisis. Both lock in decades of dependency. Both timed the offer to the moment the customer cannot refuse.

The strait closed the alternatives. The ultimatum created the fear. The pause created the relief. The deal monetises both. Thursday is payday.

Full deep dive analysis:
https://t.co/iFmUcarGdV

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: At 7:04 AM Eastern on Monday March 23, President Donald Trump posted that the US and Iran had “productive conversations.” By 7:10, the S&P 500 had surged 240 points, adding $2 trillion in market capitalisation. At 7:37, Iran’s Foreign Ministry denied all contact, calling it “falsehood and psychological warfare.” By 8:00, the S&P had fallen 120 points, erasing $1 trillion. WTI crude collapsed from above $100 to below $90, a drop exceeding 10 percent in hours.

$3 trillion swung in the S&P alone in 56 minutes. On two social media posts. While missiles were still hitting Kiryat Shmona. While the Israeli Air Force was striking targets in the “heart of Tehran” moments after Trump posted about productive conversations.

Now hold every signal from the last 12 hours simultaneously, because that is what the war requires you to do.

Trump says Iran wants to finalise the deal within five days. Iran says “no direct or indirect contact” and accuses Trump of buying time. Axios reports Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan are passing messages. An Israeli source warns the cancelled ultimatum may be read as weakness. Netanyahu says Israel is bringing Iran “to places it has never been.” Iran’s General Abdollahi warns of a “new secret weapon.” The IDF strikes an IRGC missile city near Isfahan while the power-plant pause is in effect. Rosatom evacuates Bushehr to a skeleton crew. The Pentagon accelerates 4,500 Marines. Iran’s Fars claims Trump retreated after hearing Iran would target all power plants across West Asia.

Every signal contradicts at least one other. That is not confusion. That is the war’s operating system.

Trump needs oil down before the midterms. One Truth Social post crashed WTI over 10 percent, doing more for American consumers than every naval operation in three weeks. Iran must deny talks because any appearance of negotiating with the country that killed Mojtaba’s father would end the regime faster than the bombs. Israel keeps striking because the IDF says weeks remain. The Pentagon deploys Marines because the five-day window may end with invasion, not a deal.

Every actor is simultaneously negotiating and escalating. Every statement is simultaneously true and false. The “productive conversations” happened through Turkish, Egyptian, and Pakistani intermediaries who held separate talks with White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi, per Axios. Iran must deny them to survive domestically. The strikes are real, with the IDF hitting the IRGC Khordad missile city near Isfahan even as power plants are paused, and Trump must claim progress to justify the pause. The troop deployment is real: 4,500 Marines and the 11th MEU accelerated toward the region. The secret weapon threat is real, because Iran needs escalation dominance to negotiate from a position its public denial says does not exist. Rosatom is evacuating Bushehr to a skeleton crew because Moscow calculates the next phase involves targets that glow.

This is psychological warfare at a scale that did not exist before social media gave sovereign leaders the ability to move trillion-dollar markets with a sentence. One Truth Social post moved more market value in six minutes than the entire Iranian navy was worth. One Mehr News denial erased half the recovery in 27 minutes. The war is no longer fought with missiles alone. It is fought with timestamps.

And through all of it: the strait is still closed. The 40 energy assets are still destroyed. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The helium is still bottled. Primorsk is still burning. The molecules do not read social media. The molecules wait.

Full analysis:
https://t.co/iFmUcar8on

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo SLAMS Trump’s Oval Office evangelical pro-war powwow! – "War is not holy; only peace is holy!"

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, issued a powerful condemnation from the Vatican today, directly rebuking the Christian Zionist leaders who gathered in the Oval Office to lay hands on Donald Trump and "bless" his unauthorized war against Iran.

In a moving appeal, the Chicago-born pope declared: "War is not holy; only peace is holy because it is willed by God."

He repeated the phrase several times for emphasis, calling the conflict an "immoral" assault that has already claimed American lives, Iranian civilians (including schoolgirls), and risks drawing the region – and the world – into wider catastrophe.

"If the world is deaf to this appeal, we are certain that God will hear our prayer and the lament of so much suffering," the pope said.
He urged religious leaders worldwide to echo the people's cry for peace, giving voice to the voiceless poor, the displaced, and the earth itself ravaged by destruction.

"We must dare peace," he insisted. "Enough of wars with their painful piles of death, their destruction and displacement." The pontiff framed the moment as a moral crisis: governments must heed the cry of the suffering, not the zealots who sanctify violence.

The response comes as Christian Zionist figures – many tied to the same evangelical networks boosting Trump's "end-times" rhetoric – publicly prayed over the president in the Oval Office, framing the bombardment as divine will and biblical prophecy.

The pope's words cut through that narrative with clarity: no war is holy, no matter how it's dressed in scripture. His Chicago roots and consistent opposition to Trump's policies add extra moral weight to the rebuke, underscoring growing international alarm over the lack of congressional authorization, the human cost, and the reckless escalation without an endgame.

While Trump shrugs off more dead troops as "the way it is" and his energy czar admits the war is a long-term oil grab, the leader of the Catholic Church calls for de-escalation and dares the world to choose peace over bloodshed. When even the pope denounces the war as immoral and the blessings as misguided, the moral bankruptcy of MAGA warmongering is laid bare.

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[Nad Kanaan @RkNad]

لا داعي للهلع
فرنسا رح تبعت مساعدات إنسانية للنازحين 🤓

[Ricardo Karam ريكاردو كرم @RicardoRKaram]

ليل الأحد، زرتُ أماني بزيّ.
سمعت وجعها الصامت، وكنت أظنّ أنني رأيت أقصى ما يمكن أن يحتمله قلب إنسان.
لكن، بين يوم وآخر، يمكن أن يتغيّر كلّ شيء في دقيقة.
هكذا هي الحياة.

حين كنت عندها، كانت ابنتها أسيل بين الحياة والموت.
أمس، خضعت لعمليّة دقيقة.
واليوم، قرّر الأطباء نزع الأنابيب عنها لتبدأ التنفّ�� وحدها.
لكنّها لم تتحمّل.
توقّف تنفّسها للحظات، وكانت الأم على شفير الجنون، تحاول أن تُمسك بالحياة بأطراف أصابعها.

نزعت أماني السوار العجائبي الذي كنت قد أعطيتُها إيّاه عن يدها، ولفّته حول معصم ابنتها.
ثم أحضرت الحجاب الذي وصلها من مرقد الإمام الرضا، وضعته على جسد الصغيرة، تبتهل وتبكي.
وفجأة… حدث ما لا يُصدَّق.

فتحت أسيل عينيها.
نظرت إلى أمّها، إلى جدّها، إلى خالها، وكأنّها تقول: “أنا هنا”.
كانت متعبة، ضعيفة، لكنها عادت.

أصوات الدعاء والصلاة وصلت من كلّ مكان، من كلّ دينٍ وإيمان، من قلوبٍ لم تعرفها لكنها آمنت بها.
والسماء سمعت.

أسيل عادت إلى الحياة.
لكنها ما زالت تحتاج إلى كلّ صلاة، إلى كلّ طاقة طيّبة، إلى كلّ قلبٍ مؤمن بالمحبّة.
لا تنسوها. صلّوا لأجلها.
لأنّ هذه الطفلة ما زالت تحتاج إلى إيمانكم بأنّ الحياة أقوى من الموت.

وصلّوا أيضاً لأجل لبنان…
الذي ما زال ينجو بمعجزاته الصغيرة.

فهناك، في بنت جبيل، في بيتٍ صغيرٍ مكسورٍ بالنار والدموع،
ما زالت أمّ تحمل الإيمان وحده سلاحاً،
وتُعلّمنا نحن جميعاً معنى أن نؤمن رغم كلّ شيء.

نعم، المعجزات لا تزال تحدث ❤️🙏🤲

#لبنان #أسيل #أماني_بزي #معجزة_الحياة

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Fadi needs to be urgently evacuated for treatment. He is awake but in excruciating pain, and the hospitals are barely functioning. His case is extremely critical. Please help us share his story to facilitate his evacuation.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

This is a war against all of Lebanon, its history, its people, its faiths. Every inch of it, every human inside of it.

[Carmen Joukhadar كارمن جوخَدار @CarmenJoukhadar]

تلقي قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي مناشير عليها *باركود* في عدد من المناطق اللبنانية. لا تفتحوها ولا تتداولوها بل أتلفوها مباشرة لأنها ستسحب كل المواد في جوالكم. اتخذوا كل إجراءات السلامة والحذر. حمى الله الجميع ♥️

[أماني جحا @amanie_geha]

تحذير :

تلقي قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي مناشير عليها *باركود* في عدد من المناطق اللبنانية. لا تفتحوها ولا تتداولوها بل أتلفوها مباشرة لأنها ستسحب كل المواد في جوالكم. اتخذوا كل إجراءات السلامة والحذر.
الله يحمي الجميع

[فيروز _ Fairouz @Fairouz_Lovers]

الله يحمي لبنان وشعب لبنان 🙏🏼🤍

[Thomas Portes @Portes_Thomas]

Au moins 492 morts dont 35 enfants au Liban. Le discours médiatique reprend les éléments de langage du criminel Netanyahu en parlant de « frappes ». Non il ne s’agit pas de « frappes » et encore moins « ciblées » ou « préventives ». Nous sommes face à des assassinats de masse.