Zeina Shaaban

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This might sound like nothing but this is one of the most extraordinary revealing things Israel has said.

In the words of Israeli officials themselves Nasrallah literally died because he refused a side deal that abandoned the Palestinians.

In effect this man labelled "terrorist" died because he refused to yield on what all UN resolutions and the immense majority of the international community have been calling for ceaselessly. Except he, unlike those others, had teeth.

So, unlike what so many people are saying, the real reason for his death isn't because "Hezbollah are terrorists and they're bad" but so Israel can pursue its land grab and ethnic cleansing unimpeded. He was one of the only ones actually willing to make them face accountability for it and, in their own words, that's why he had to die.

[Mohammad Ali Shabani @mashabani]

You're going to read a lot about how #Hezbollah command is/was located in Beirut. This is an image of the Israel military's command. It is located in urban Tel Aviv.

[Peter Harling @PeterHarling]

The truth is that all forms of unregulated state violence end up reinforcing each other. Fascination for the high-tech version of this conceals a lust for more arbitrary state violence in general, turned against an enemy deemed unworthy of any restraint.

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

BREAKING - Eight killed, more than 2,800 wounded in Lebanon pagers explosion, health minister Firas Abiad says.

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Any experts on how a pager can be made to explode like this? Reach out.

Please RT.

[Beirut Urban Lab @BeirutUrbanLab]

Even after a 200% increase in strikes by Lebanese factions during the exceptionally violent month of July in retaliation to the assassinations by Israel, strikes on Lebanon remain disproportionately higher. Meanwhile, August marks a relative return to previous rates of attacks.

[the tortured poets department lyrics bot @ttpdbot]

and i’ll forget you but i’ll never forgive, the smallest man who ever lived

[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

Complicity is humbling, as hurtful a mirror as it may be. Not choosing to recognize your contribution to genocide is violence, in its most literal of definitions.
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[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

Scream-worthy quotes from one of my favorite authors' latest work @LaraAtallah tagging along with the US presidential race.

Link here: https://t.co/fd94Jhp8zW

"Most things tend to be a big show in America. A political debate is a stand-up comedy skit with lives on the line." /1

[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

"Violence is a mutable element. It can present bureaucratically, as legislation at home and as 2,000 ton bunker-buster bombs dropped on tents full of people you’ve never met but had a hand in killing some 5,000 miles away."

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[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

"For many of us who leave, there’s no “there there” to return to. We know that any home we yearn for will need to be built on foreign soil. For some of us, it’ll mean learning a new language. For others, it can mean multiple relocations in what becomes an exile in intervals."

[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

"It’s about honestly assessing the real damages that come with being from a country that will treat its more privileged citizens as exports, and their least privileged as prisoners of an ever-steepening poverty." @LaraAtallah

https://t.co/nqo6blZODg

[Youssef Ibrahim Yazbek 🇱🇧 ☭ @RorschachProdu1]

Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.

Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.

[Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories_]

"Kids need to learn to accept that sometimes they have to do things they don't like to do because that's life."

Yes... but also not in the way people who say this mean.

Hang with me as I explain. \1

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

The idea that everyone has access to a local friendship group is painfully and upsettingly misguided.

I haven't had local friends since I left school (I'm 30 now) and many of my school friendships/friendship groups were actively harmful to me whilst I was in them.

[Zeina Shaaban @Zeinashaaban]

@duolingo_abc Not available on iOS?

[@[email protected] @AutSciPerson]

I think I have a hard time simply stating my opinion because for years I thought I wasn't allowed to have an opinion based on people's reactions to it,

when the issue often was that non-autistic people didn't like the way I was saying my opinion (tone/phrasing).

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