AishaSahar Alkharusi

Government & Politics

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

13th-century Persian poet
Saadi of Shiraz:

“Human beings are members of a whole,
in creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
the name of human you cannot retain.”

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Lukashenko on nuclear weapons:

If we approach the matter from the standpoint of fairness, does the United States of America possess nuclear weapons? Yes, it does.

Okay, the United States is the pioneer of nuclear weapons and has held them for a long time. But Israel remains quiet about the fact that it has nuclear weapons.

The Iranians could ask, “Why can’t we have nuclear weapons?” Especially when nearby India and Pakistan are nuclear powers.

Why can’t Iran have nuclear weapons?

If we want fairness, let us gradually, step by step, eliminate all nuclear weapons in the world.

But if nuclear weapons are a deterrent, a guarantee that no one will ever attack you, then Iran has the right, like other nations, to possess nuclear weapons for its own defense.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

A man whose family are killed by the israelis in Gaza, says sorry to be boring, but while you’re watching the World Cup, we are being killed

[وزارة الخارجية @FMofOman]

#إنفوجرافيك |

سلطنة عُمان تُطلق " خطّة مسقط " في مقر الأمم المتحدة بنيويورك، كإطار دولي لتعزيز دور القيادات الدينية والتقليدية والشعوب الأصلية في الوقاية من النزاعات ومواجهة خطاب الكراهية والحد من الإبادة والفظائع الجماعية عبر الوساطة والحوار وبناء السلام والتنمية، وذلك برعاية الأمم المتحدة وبمشاركة واسعة من الدول الأعضاء والمنظمات الدولية وشركاء بناء السلام حول العالم.

The Sultanate of Oman launches the #MuscatActionPlan at the UN Headquarters in New York as an international framework to strengthen the role of religious and traditional leaders and indigenous peoples in conflict prevention, countering hate speech, and advancing peacebuilding through mediation, dialogue, and development. The initiative is launched under the auspices of the United Nations, with broad participation from Member States and international partners.

🔗https://t.co/zvbO6Y4D0V

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

Speaks for itself

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

3 counties…
More than 21 million square kilometres of land between them…
Couldn’t deliver a hair’s worth of what Qatar (⚽️🫡) provided to the world.
Under pathetic incessant racist attack at that.
Poetic really 👌🏼

Abysmal failure is an understatement. Disgrace…

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Harrowing footage of israeli troops abducting Palestinian school girls in Beitunia town; they scream because they may never be released.. intact

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

@BrettErickson28 How bad are the Epstein Files

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

If we had an dignity we wouldn’t abandoned FIFA decades ago.
After what they did to Qatar - we shouldn’t abandoned on principle alone.
FIFA isn’t “the world” to host the “world” cup. The actual world of decent, just human beings - rather than corrupt rapists, pedophiles and murders - need to get our act together.

[Alexander @A_H_Alexander]

Suivez-vous ce qui est en train de se passer autour de la Coupe du monde aux États-Unis ?

Entre la star du football irakien retenue et interrogée pendant plus de sept heures à l’aéroport, les difficultés de déplacement et de visa rencontrées par certaines délégations, ainsi que l’équipe d’Iran qui devra entrer sur le territoire américain pour disputer ses matchs puis le quitter après chaque rencontre, les signaux d’alerte s’accumulent.

Ce qui frappe surtout, c’est le contraste. Pendant des années, une partie des médias occidentaux, des responsables politiques, des institutions et même certains joueurs n’ont cessé de donner des leçons au Qatar. Tout y passait : la culture, les valeurs, la religion, la politique, et bien sûr les histoires de sexualité intestinale non reproductive.

Résultat ? Le Qatar a livré une Coupe du monde que beaucoup considèrent comme l’une des plus réussies de l’histoire, avec des infrastructures remarquables, une logistique fluide, une sécurité maîtrisée et une organisation saluée par des millions de visiteurs et de téléspectateurs à travers le monde.

Aujourd’hui, alors que les difficultés et les critiques concernent l’organisation américaine, le silence est assourdissant. Où sont les éditoriaux indignés ? Où sont les campagnes médiatiques quotidiennes ? Où sont les grandes leçons de morale ?

Les mêmes qui commentaient chaque détail au Qatar semblent soudainement beaucoup moins bavards. Les Allemands, notamment, n’ont pas beaucoup moufté… !

Et ce n’est probablement que le début. Si vous avez d’autres informations, n’hésitez pas à les partager en commentaire.

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

@BrettErickson28 Poor poor man 🙄

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

Powerful historic epic speech 👏🏼🇸🇮🎯

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

With Germanys failure to get elected to the United Nations Security Council, this brilliant address by Slovenia, Spain, and Belgiums action in Europe and the weakening of the US/Israeli military by their defeat in Iran, there is real hope that US/Israeli global terrorism may finally be addressed.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

Phenomenally comendable 🇸🇮👏🏼

[Nataša Pirc Musar @nmusar]

Genocid nad Palestinci ni ustavljen in ljudje v Gazi in na Zahodnem bregu ne živijo v miru in dostojanstvu. Danes izobešena zastava Palestine na pročelju Predsedniške palače, ki bo tu ostala en teden, potem pa bo, kot opomin vsem, ki obiščejo moj urad, stala v notranjih prostorih, pa pomeni še mnogo več. Je simbol grobih kršitev mednarodnega humanitarnega prava in človekovih pravic ne samo v Palestini, pač pa tudi drugod po svetu. Je preprost klic k spoštovanju temeljnega civilizacijskega načela: človekovega dostojanstva - za vse.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

An Israeli attack on a tent camp in Gaza City has killed at least six Palestinians and wounded a dozen more, including children.

Hamas condemned it as ‘a massacre of women and children’, accusing Israel of undermining ceasefire-related talks in Cairo.

[قناة الجزيرة @AJArabic]

رئيسة سلوفينيا ناتاشا بيرتس موسار تعلن رفع العلم الفلسطيني على واجهة القصر الرئاسي، بعد إزالته من مقر الحكومة عقب تولي رئيس الوزراء يانيز يانشا السلطة، مشيرة إلى أنه سيبقى مرفوعا لمدة أسبوع قبل نقله إلى داخل المبنى ليبقى معروضا أمام الزوار، مؤكدة في منشور على منصة "إكس" أنه بات رمزا للانتهاكات الجسيمة للقانون الإنساني الدولي وحقوق الإنسان

#الجزيرة

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

Convincing take

[🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 @STANISKRAPIVNIK]

“The war will last for a couple of decades. We need to learn to live with it.”

A powerful speech by the legendary intelligence officer and professional analyst Andrey Bezrukov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It resonates with what I usually say in response to the question: "When will all this end?" I reply: "Accept that war is our new normal."

Key theses - in quotes.

🔻 New type of war
"We are in a new war. Since it's pointless to seize territory anymore... this is a war of attrition and subversion." "Leaders, military, civilians, scientists" and "critical infrastructure on which the country depends" are being targeted. "This is the war we need to prepare for. It's happening, and it will continue."

🔻 West's strategy of 'boiling the frog'
"The West's strategy is very simple: to avoid a nuclear clash with us, from which they would emerge as losers. And so they need to 'boil the frog slowly' - gradually escalate tensions." "We're seeing this today. And they won't stop, because they have nowhere to retreat to. We're an existential threat to them."

🔻 First 'hill' of world war
"We're currently on the first hill of world war. There will be two hills, as in the First and Second World Wars... The rules of the game will be born after the next clash. It's likely to happen in Asia." What happened in Iran, he says, "proves that the hegemon is no longer the hegemon."

🔻 Strike on nuclear forces
The enemy's main task is to "avoid the nuclear threshold... and neutralize our nuclear forces": either by building a system in space to "prevent anything from taking off", or "like in Operation 'Spider Web', planting it here through their agents and striking our nuclear forces at a certain moment."

🔻 Destabilization and strike on infrastructure
"The plan is to overwhelm our decision-making system with complex attacks from all directions - ideological, physical, military." Already today, "a drone can fly into any region via Starlink and land in a precise location... Unfortunately, we weren't ready for it."

🔻 Threat of biowar
"All those labs around us... were making weapons of the future." Technology allows "an individual on individual equipment to create viruses that... could wipe us all out."

🔻 What to do
"We must admit that for the next... couple of decades we will be at war... We will have two generations that can practically be considered at war." The economy needs to be built in such a way that it "not only fulfills the task of development, but also the task of defense": deepen and protect critical infrastructure, create a "headquarters" for management, invest in protection against bioterrorism, and merge the army and society.

🔻 'Stop being good'
"We need to stop being good. We're too good for our enemies... They don't fear us because many red lines remain on paper." At the same time, Western Europe is dependent on imported gas, and "exploding a gas tanker is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion." The expert's conclusion: the country needs an "image of the future."

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

Not a wall but a cage - indeed!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Here is a quick hypothetical question for you.

A friend calls you: "So there's this guy in my neighborhood. He keeps insulting me in public, slapped me around a few times, and told everyone he might take my garage. Last month he tried to annex my neighbor's yard. He now wants me to join his "club" where I can only buy groceries from his store, even if the shop across the street sells the same thing for half the price. He named the club "The I Want to Dominate This Block Association." I hate this guy and desperately want to get away from him... Should I join the club?"

Well, your friend pretty much described the EU joining America's "Pax Silica" - which they apparently just committed to (https://t.co/lgsGnujfdt)

Starting with the name. Typically, when great powers set up an initiative that is imperialistic in nature, they pick a name that says the opposite: “alliance for progress,” “partnership for peace,” etc.

This time, evidently in no mood for euphemism, the US straight up called their initiative the most imperialistic name conceivable, directly inspired by the Roman Empire (Pax Romana). Literally the equivalent of naming your neighborhood club "The I Want to Dominate This Block Association."

And it's exactly what it, quite explicitly, sets out to do. It's written right on the tin (https://t.co/H29HAID4Fo): countries sign up, align their supply chains with Washington, shut out Chinese products - however good or cheap - and buy American. The neighborhood bully grocery store clause, basically, except it's for the most strategic technology of the century: the entire AI stack.

Worse still, as I explain in my article, not only is the EU voluntarily locking itself into even further dependency on the very power it keeps saying it needs to break free from, but it's doing so in a way that will make it all the more difficult for them to compete in the layer of AI that will matter most - the application layer, where the actual value of AI will get built.

That’s the fundamental con behind “Pax Silica”: on the one hand the declaration they wrote (https://t.co/H29HAID4Fo) affirms that “the 21st century will run on compute” just like “the 20th century ran on oil and steel,” yet on the other hand they’re building a system that makes that very resource scarcer and more expensive for every member of the club - everyone, that is, except for themselves who get to sell it.

On top of ensuring, if we keep using their "oil and steel" analogy, that members of the club don’t drill their own oil wells or build their own steel mills.

In short Pax Silica is not a wall against China, it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.

To understand the full argument and how Europe is making - yet again - another massive strategic mistake that will set it back immensely for the most consequential technology of the future, it's all in my latest article titled "The Pax Silica Con": https://t.co/1cih3ZnHkN

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

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[Adel Marzooq عادل مرزوق @adelmarzooq]

باب ما جاء في #عُمان والرئيس ترامب والحرب على إيران
1
تنظر واشنطن إلى عُمان باعتبارها دولة ضمن منظومة دول الخليج التي يُفترض أن تنخرط تلقائيًا في الاصطفافات التي ترسمها الولايات المتحدة،
تلعب دور الوسيط حين يطلب منها ذلك، وتساهم في جهود الحرب حين يطلب منها ذلك.
في الحقيقة، السلطنة تنظر إلى نفسها بطريقة مختلفة تمامًا. وبما أن الرئيس ترامب وفريقه من العقاريين، لا يولون تقارير مؤسساتهم السياسية أو الاستخباراتية أي اهتمام، فهم، على الأغلب، لا يعرفون أن السلطنة لها خصوصيتها التاريخية في منظومة دول الخليج، وأنها لم تكن في يوم من الأيام مجرد رقم اعتيادي في المنطقة.
2
إن تصوير السلطنة باعتبارها أداة في يد إيران مدعاة للسخرية، فالسلطنة التي لم تقبل أن تكون أداة للولايات المتحدة، من المحال أن تقبل بتموضعها كأداة إيرانية.
أكثر منذلك، إن سلوك السلطنة لا يتعلق بتوازنات تكتيكية تريد تثبيتها، هو جزء من تصور تاريخي راسخ للسيادة والاستقلال واحترام الذات السياسية للسلطنة والسلطان والعمانيين، وهذا، بحسب ما أفهم، ما يعتبره العمانيون منطقتهم الخاصة والمحرمة.
3
تدرك مسقط أن القوى الدولية تتبدل أولوياتها وإداراتها وسياساتها. الولايات المتحدة تأتي إلى المنطقة بقوة ثم تنكفئ عنها، تنتقل من إدارة إلى أخرى بسياسات متناقضة.
قبالة ذلك، الجغرافيا لا تتغير، وإيران، بحكم الموقع والتاريخ، ستظل جارًا دائمًا لا يمكن نقله إلى مكان آخر أو تجاهله.
هذا لا يعني أن السلطنة تعمل ضمن المحور الإيراني أو أنها منحت أو تمنح أو ستمنح طهران شيكًا على بياض، فالسلطنة نفسها استضافت بنيامين نتنياهو عام 2018 في خطوة أثارت دهشة واسعة في الخليج وإيران معًا، وهي كذلك، كانت أول دولة خليجية فتحت مكتبًا تجاريًا لإسرائيل عام 1994.
عُمان لم تكن مضطرة إلى القيام بأي من هاتين الخطوتين، لكنها فعلتهما لأنها تتصرف وفق ما تراه منسجمًا مع مصالحها ورؤيتها الخاصة، لا وفق ما تريده العواصم الأخرى.
4
من هنا، يمكن فهم موقف السلطنة من الحرب. ترفض مسقط الانخراط في مشروع واشنطن وتل أبيب لسبب واضح، وهو عدم اقتناعها بجدوى المسار المطروح، يضاف لذلك تجاوز فريق ترامب جهود الوساطة التي بذلتها السلطنة حين لم يتعامل بالجدية والاحترام الكافيين، وعليه، ولأن هذا الفريق لم يحترم المساحة المحرمة للعمانيين، كان من الطبيعي أن تتمسك مسقط أكثر باستقلال قرارها، لا أن تتخلى عنه.
5
ما يصعب على بعض الساسة الأمريكيين الجدد استيعابه هو أن عُمان تفكر بمنطق الدولة التي ترى أن قيمة دورها الإقليمي تكمن في قدرتها على أن تقول "لا" حين يقول الآخرون "نعم"،
وفي قدرتها على أن تحتفظ بقنواتها المفتوحة مع الجميع عندما يختار الآخرون إغلاقها،
وكل ذلك يجري ويحدث، دون أن يجبرها أحد على فعل أي شيء، حتى لو كان ذلك متوقعًا منها.
وهذه السياسة هي مصدر النفوذ والقوة لعمان،
وهو ما يميزها، وما يجب على من يريد صداقتها أن يفهمه ويعيه، وقبل ذلك، يجب عليه أن يحترمه.
والله أعلم..

[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

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[AishaSahar Alkharusi @aswk85]

حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

Heartbreaking footage captures a Red Crescent member breaking down in tears after discovering the dismembered body of a 6‑month‑old baby during the US–Israeli aggression on Iran.

Follow: https://t.co/mLGcUTSA3Q