Christine

Lebanese American

[Ovrkast. @ovrkast]

New York look like when the teacher leave the class for 5 minutes

[Jozu 🇵🇦 @JozuJoestarr]

Ever since Mamdani got elected nothing but good things happens in New York

[Reuters @Reuters]

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Israeli authorities are directly involved in settler attacks that have killed, injured and displaced Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli security forces provide protection to settlers, a UN inquiry said https://t.co/mtUK0nycep

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Peter Beinart fires back at Sam Harris.

[Jessica G. Obeid  @Jessica_Obeid]

I'm sick and tired of this narrative.
The "civil war" fear thing is the boogeyman that the key players have used for decades to maintain the status quo in Lebanon & preserve the system in its current form.

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich cannot complete one sentence on Lebanon without using the terms destroy, erase, eliminate, kill, annex, occupy, settle.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Those who claim their enemies understand only the language of force understand only the language of force.

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

Quite the combination of headlines on the New York Times website tonight:

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

Pope Leo XIV on the papal plane to Spain:

“Do [young people] want to see Bad Bunny or do they want to see the pope? Many will go see Bad Bunny, but I think there will also be a few here to see the pope. And that says something, you know.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.

That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.

Not gonna happen!

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

התמונה הזו היא של תינוק בן 7 חודשים שנורה בחברון על ידי חייל צה"ל. הוא לא שרד. תינוק בן 7 חודשים נהרג מאש צה"ל. ההורים שלו נפצעו קשה. זו המציאות שאנחנו אחראים לה. זה מה שאנחנו עושים. חייבים להביט למציאות הזו בעיניים. חייבים לסיים את הכיבוש.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Over the last 24 hours:
1. IDF soldier shot an killed a 7 months old Palestinian baby in Hebron
2. IDF kills a senior Lebanese military officer and two other Lebanese soldiers in an air strike in southern Lebanon
3. Israeli Settlers aided by at least one IDF soldier (see video) conduct a Pogrom in the Palestinian village of Huwara. 9 Palestinians wounded

[War Monitor @WarMonitors]

You don’t start wars you are objectively destined to lose. End of story.

That’s simply just suicide.

[Christine @cbusaba_]

@wmsts @MaxBlumenthal Separate issues that we like to conflate - to ask for Hezbollah’s disarmament and for the state to have monopoly on arms is not a call for normalization. Most Lebanese are pro state monopoly on arms (with exceptions ofc) and anti-normalization.

[Christine @cbusaba_]

@Anti_State_0 @wmsts @MaxBlumenthal People can’t seem to compute that the Lebanese people want this. This isn’t Iran: people can go freely protest and topple this government if they choose. This government enjoys massive support. Call the people names, call them brainwashed, call them Zios, but this is popular.

[Christine @cbusaba_]

@Anti_State_0 @wmsts @MaxBlumenthal Lebanon has an Israel problem but it ALSO has a Hezbollah problem. First resistance to bring back reoccupation I’ve seen.

Hezbollah’s weapons haven’t deterred Israel no matter how many times we scream “but resistance!” The south, dahieh, Beqaa are in worse shape than ever.

[Christine @cbusaba_]

@Anti_State_0 @wmsts @MaxBlumenthal Hezbollah had legitimate aims until 2000. The south was liberated in 2000. Every step since then has been a co-option of the state: weapons turned on fellow citizens, wars, staged coups, assassinations

[Mariana @marianagnche]

Based on your comment, one would think Iran never armed Hezbollah, never built a state within a state, never turned Lebanese villages into missile depots, never used Lebanese territory to fight Iran’s wars, and never had Hassan Nasrallah openly describe Lebanon as part of a wider Iranian project.

One would also think Iran respected Lebanese sovereignty enough to recall its ambassador when he openly challenged the Lebanese government.

The level of gaslighting is impressive.

After setting the house on fire, Tehran now wants credit for calling the fire department.

[Mazen Barbir @mazen_barbir]

80%+ of Sunnis, Christians and Druze agree with President Aoun’s message and direction.

70-80% of Shias disagree.

Overall, 70%+ of Lebanese appear to agree with the President’s view and trajectory.

I guess that makes most of us Lebanese unpatriotic traitors 😂…

Or perhaps, finally, an eloquent President from the minority representing the majority.