Ambreen Arshad

Journalist @Dawn & Blogger, Content Writer Insta: @ambreenarshaddotcom tweets are personal views,

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Palestinian teenage footballer Fadi al-Naasan has died a week after being shot by Israeli forces during an Israeli settler attack on his village northeast of Ramallah.

His death comes amid a surge in settler violence against Palestinian communities.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Major cheat code in life: ask for big unreasonable things. The universe will meet you at the level of your audacity.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Pepe on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“Today the whole world watched the same match.

Egypt scored a perfectly good goal, celebrated it, earned it, and then VAR suddenly turned into a time machine. They went so far back looking for a reason to disallow it that I thought they were reviewing the pyramids being built.

That is my first question.

If VAR can travel that far into the past to cancel Egypt’s goal, why could it not travel five seconds into the future when Egypt were screaming for penalties?

Funny, no? One team gets forensic investigation. The other gets silence.

Egypt were leading. Egypt were controlling the game. Egypt were making Argentina uncomfortable. Then came the intervention that changed everything.

The disallowed goal.

The moment that shifted the entire momentum of the match.

And after that? Two penalty appeals. Two. Not one. Two opportunities for the officials to show consistency.

Nothing. No urgency. No transparency. No explanation that convinced anybody.

Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.

Football is a game of moments. The referee’s team decided which moments deserved attention and which moments deserved to disappear.

People tell me Argentina showed champion mentality. I agree.

But champion mentality and controversial officiating are not mutually exclusive things, Both can exist at the same time. What I cannot accept is the inconsistency.

When Egypt scored, VAR searched every grain of sand in the desert looking for a foul.

When Egypt asked for penalties, suddenly everybody became blind. That is why the Egyptian bench exploded. That is why cards were flying everywhere. That is why millions of fans left the stadium angry instead of simply disappointed.

Because losing to Argentina is one thing. Feeling like the rules changed depending on who benefited is another.

And this is what football fans hate the most. Not defeat. Not mistakes. Selective scrutiny.

The feeling that one decision was examined with a microscope while another was viewed from outer space.

Maybe Argentina would still have won. Maybe they would not. We will never know. Because the game was not allowed to reach its natural conclusion.

Instead, Egypt leave the World Cup with questions.

Questions about the disallowed goal, Questions about the ignored penalty appeals, Questions about consistency, Questions about why VAR looked like a sword against one team and a shield for another.

And when football leaves people talking more about the officials than the players, that is not a victory for the sport.

That is a failure.

Today Egypt lost 3-2 on the scoreboard.

But the debate over what really happened will win headlines for much longer than Argentina’s comeback.”

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers.

My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers.

This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

There is a name for boarding a ship and abducting innocent civilians in international waters, @BBCWorld. Its not called 'interception'. The word is piracy.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

All journalists.

Targeted and assassinated intentionally.

For reporting the truth from the frontlines.

[Media Lens @medialens]

This is the world we're living in:

'Trump’s executive order sanctioning Albanese prohibited any American person or entity from providing her with “funds, goods or services” – a description so broad it has been compared to a “civil death”. Her apartment in Washington, bought when she and her family were living in the US capital, has been seized. She can no longer use a credit card anywhere in the world, as almost all such transactions are processed by US-based services. “I go around with cash or I have to borrow from friends or from family members,” she says.

'She accuses pro-Israel activists based in Geneva of hounding her husband, Massimiliano Calì, a senior economist at the World Bank, in a campaign that led to him being removed from his lead position running its Syria file. “The World Bank was completely craven,” Albanese says. “He has stellar records of performance in all his positions.”'
https://t.co/w6j2l1gEYM

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground.

Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground.

War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."

From my Piers Morgan debate with the IDF's @DoronSpielman

Full show: https://t.co/I8tx2SRag8

[nah. 🇻🇨 @FEELZ_____]

1. Have a deal
2. Break the deal
3. Start a war
4. Lose the war
5. Force a blockade
6. Enact an second blockade
7. ???
8. Profit!

The Art of the Deal, by Donald J. Trump.

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

This is BELT TREATMENT 🔥

🇺🇸 Trump –– I feel that countries like Japan and China don't have courage or will to open the Strait of Hormuz

🇨🇳 CHINA –– 🔥 "The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. It was you who created war out of nothing and got it closed for the rest of the world" 😂

No one tolerating nonsense

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Lebanon is being destroyed.

1.1 million people, including 390,000 children, forced out of their homes by relentless bombardment. Towns and villages flattened. Infrastructures destroyed. Innocent civilians killed. There is no justification for this.

[Orangeworker @JREEEEE9]

Remember when we already had a deal in place with iran to not build nuclear weapons and trump tore it up because barack obama is black?

US Vice President JD Vance says talks with Iran ended after 21 hours without reaching agreement
https://t.co/XVIxxx1r4p

[Wajahat Kazmi @KazmiWajahat]

VIDEO OF THE DAY 😂

A former US diplomat gives a shut-up call to the Indian media for their foolish anti-Pakistan agenda during the Islamabad peace talks between Iran and the US.

India has lost all the respect!

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

It is so sad that it is actually true.

[Narjes Rahmati 🟩☫🟥 نرجس رحمتی @Narjes_Rahmati]

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Textbook definition of genocide.

Those who could have intervened but did not will come to regret it.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

Melania on the children in Iran:

"All of this is happening for their future so they will be safe in years to come”

The children in Minab, Iran: