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Refreshingly Sri Lankan

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

On June 5th Israel attacked the home of world famous Lebanese sea turtle conservationist Mona Khalil. Mona was hospitalized with burns and injuries to over 70% of her body.

Yesterday, June 19th, Mona died from her injuries.

This wasn’t an accident. They didn’t make a mistake. Mona’s home was also where she ran her sea turtle conservatory- which she aptly named the Orange House Project- because, after all, her house was painted top to bottom in a deep, bright orange, the color of a late summer sunset.

The Orange House Project has been in operation for almost 30 years. You can find it on Facebook and Google Maps, along with dozens of reviews from visitors over the years.

So no, it wasn’t an accident or a mistake. Israel knew exactly what it was doing when it bombed the Orange House Project on June 5th.

It’s exactly what they’ve been doing since the war with Iran started: ethnically cleansing all of Southern Lebanon so they can steal the land and occupy it for themselves.

[Royal Ambassador @JaokooMoses]

CONFIRMED: The US joint Chiefs of staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine stormed out of an emergency meeting with Trump. Insiders indicate that Trump wanted to invoke the nuclear codes as a deterrence against Iran but Caine refused and invoked the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice.

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

"American Special Forces fell directly into a trap set by Iranian forces"

​​​​​​​WATCH: Information obtained by Press TV regarding the recent operation by the American-Israeli coalition in the central Isfahan province reveals a MAJOR STRATEGIC DEFEAT for the enemy.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

American/Israeli fighter jets are now reportedly targeting the pistachio warehouses of Iranian Pistachio companies (this one is near Rafsanjan airport)...

They are targeting Iranian pistachios due to decades of Israeli-American lobbying in DC for war. Meet the Resnik family⏳:

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Hind Rajabs words on a mobile phone as Israel was murdering her.

‘“I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is factually untrue and false and a lie as I explain, with evidence and receipts, here:

[Myron Gaines Updates @WyronGaines]

♦️j*wish chick tried to press Myron about the H*Iocaust and he hit her with the UNO reverse card!😭✡️🔁

“Do you think that lsraeI did a genocide?”

“That’s a complicated question..”

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel's conviction rate of Palestinians (in military courts) is 99.74%

Israel's conviction rate of reported settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%

Israel's death sentence will only apply against Palestinians not Israeli Jews

It's not complicated. It's Apartheid!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Incredible photo of the Lebanese journalist, Ali Shoeib, reporting in front of illegal invaders.

Shoeib was murdered by Israel today in a targeted assassination.

[Donna Mugoh @Eddie_Mugoh]

I remember in Gaza, Israel sent a Palestinian prisoner to ask people to leave a hospital before they flatten it. Told him to come back or they blow it up with everyone in it.

The guy went and found his mother also stuck in the hospital. Passed the message and started going back to the IDF soldiers.

Halfway on the way a sniper shot him in the head.
His mother witnessed it. The video is also available.

His work was done.

[لولوة الخاطر Lolwah Alkhater @Lolwah_Alkhater]

#The_Psychology_of_Crises
#Middle_East

🔹 “O Muhājirīn! O Anṣār! How do we extinguish the fire of discord?”

This may be the first in a series of reflections in which I attempt to offer a calm and reflective reading of the present moment. My hope is that it helps us better understand the psychology of crises and how we engage with the collective mind in times of hardship.

This becomes all the more pressing today. We are living through a unique moment in human history, where every individual has become a media machine (independent or otherwise), and where countless actors and institutions drive agendas that bring no good to this region, or to humanity as a whole.

I begin with an incident from the Prophetic era, an era Muslims unanimously agree was the best of times. I use it here to highlight a human phenomenon that has always existed. I present the narration as found in the books of Hadith, followed by my commentary.  

Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
“A man from the Muhajirin kicked a man from the Ansar. The man from the Muhajirin said: ‘O Muhajirin!’ the man from the Ansar said: ‘O Ansar!’ The Prophet heard that and said: ‘What is this evil call of Jahliyyah?’ They said: ‘A man from the Muhajirin kicked a man from the Ansar.’ So the Prophet said: ‘Leave that, for it is offensive.’ Abdullah bin Ubayy bin Salul heard that and said: ‘Did they really do that? By Allah! If we return to        Al-Madinah indeed the more honorable will expel therefrom the meaner.’ Umar said: ‘Allow me to chop off the head of this hypocrite, O Messenger of Allah!’ The Prophet said: ‘Leave him, I do not want the people to say that Muhammad kills his Companions.’” 
-End of Narration-

🔹Reflection:
The incident could have unfolded in many possible ways. A trial could have been held to determine who was right and who was wrong. Wouldn’t reason, and even the apparent demands or justice, call for such a course? The Companions could have refused compliance, and conflict might have erupted. The Prophet could have ordered the execution of Abdullah bin Ubayy to silence the instigator of discord. But that’s not what happened. Prophetic wisdom took a completely different path. Why?

It recognized that discord (fitnah) is not born of reason, but of emotional reaction. It feeds on buried grievances, charged past, and accumulated psychological residue. It is not, in its essence, driven by intellect, though it may cloak itself in logic, dress itself in evidence, and —even in our time— be carried by highly educated voices. Thus, the Prophetic method was both precise and profound: Cut off the oxygen;“Leave it, for it is rotten.” Do not engage it. Do not rationalize it. Do not entertain the arguments and evidence of each side. But why?

Because once ignited, no party will ever fail to produce evidence of its victimhood and grievances, nor proof of its virtue and superiority over others. Reality tells us that every human society -indeed, every nation- possesses two memories, a memory of connection, and a memory of rupture. Which one is activated depends on need, context, sentiment, and the prevailing -or deliberately shaped- public mood.

Take Rwanda as an example. If you go there today, you won’t hear people talk about the crimes committed by each group (the Tutsi and the Hutu) during one of the most horrific genocides of modern time in the 1990s. Instead, you’ll hear a shared story, one about coexistence, national unity, and a common future. But if you had asked the same people thirty years ago, during the civil war, they would have unsheathed the sword of hostility and revenge against their fellow citizens (the very same nation they now celebrate as strong in its diversity). This isn’t unique to Rwanda. It applies to every society, regardless of the nature of their social fractures: religious, ethnic, tribal, geographical, or otherwise.

( tbc )

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It's the equivalent of 70 million Americans being driven from their homes in the space of 14 days.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Incredible quotes in the deleted Telegraph article about the Lebanese Christians supporting Hezbollah.

I wonder why they didn’t want their audience to read this 🤔

[Feroze Sidhwa @FerozeSidhwa]

I'm an American trauma surgeon. One year ago today I was volunteering at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza when Israel fired a missile into the room of my 16-year-old patient, Ibrahim Barhoum. The missile killed him instantly. If it had hit the room 90 seconds later it would have killed me, too. Today the US and Israel are still blocking medical supplies from entering Gaza, and are repeating the assault on hospitals and healthcare workers across Lebanon.

This is nothing but barbarism. It must be stopped.

[Stop The Bollocks with Mirabel @MirabelTweets1]

The false flag attack on the Jewish ambulances in Golders Green, London has backfired massively. Because now people are asking why Jews in London have separate ambulances.

And once they start digging they’ll find out they have special police vehicles too

Dear oh dear.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel kidnapped and tortured a one-year-old child in front of his father for 10 hours, burning cigarettes and inserting nails into his legs, in an attempt to extract a false confession under duress.

Israel kidnapped and tortured a baby!

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨BREAKING NEWS

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Spokesperson :

"We could have struck the Dimona nuclear plant if we wanted to. This was a warning shot. If our nuclear facilities are attacked again, Dimona will be destroyed."

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Israel Strikes Near Bushehr

The reported Israeli bombing in the vicinity of the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant raises questions about Israel's objectives. The pattern of targeting critical infrastructure, from water desalination plants to areas close to sensitive nuclear sites, should serve as a strategic shock to the regional actors, especially GGC. These attacks have the potential to create a large scale existential threat to the Gulf region.

A scenario comparable to the Chornobyl disaster is no longer unthinkable if strikes occur near nuclear facilities. Before any escalation, Qatar’s foreign minister warned explicitly about the consequences of targeting Bushehr.

“Water supply for the whole region will be contaminated, and Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE will run out of water within three days.”

Given the scale of the potential humanitarian and environmental fallout, the absence of clearly defined rules of engagement around such sensitive infrastructure is deeply alarming. Sites adjacent to Nuclear plants are not conventional military sites. Their destruction or damage carries consequences that are indiscriminate and transnational.

Israel, through these attacks, is threatening the Gulf to participate in a devastating war with Iran or is targeting Iran in a way that would lead to direct regional confrontation with the Gulf.

The lack of serious public discourse around the radioactive risks is also concerning. In a worst case scenario, depending on wind direction, the radioactive contamination due to any attack on Busherh could extend as far as Pakistan, affecting coastal regions such as Karachi.

Clips from Interview with @TuckerCarlson