DK MacPhee

Celtic, Dystonia, Gaelic and other stuff. Suffered too long with cervical dystonia. Still looking for a cure & better treatment.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

The OLDEST CHRISTIAN village in the world is burning.

Taybeh, Palestine.

The last 100% Christian Palestinian village, where Christ resurrected Lazarus, build the Church of St. Michael.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

South Lebanon is not just rubble & headlines.

Between the towns, villages, & hills lies a landscape of extraordinary beauty: fertile valleys, olive groves, rivers, abundant water resources, ancient archaeological sites, & breathtaking natural vistas that rarely make it into the news.

This is the region Israel has devastated; villages flattened, towns emptied, over 1 million Lebanese displaced since the escalation began.

Yet within the last 48 hours, prominent Israeli voices have openly advocated expanding into southern Lebanon & establishing permanent settlements there, some invoking biblical claims & framing the Litani River as Israel's natural northern border.

At the same time, ultra-orthodox & settler-linked groups (tied to Uri Tsafon) have been advertising properties in southern Lebanon for sale on their websites, listings treating Lebanese land as already controllable, with starting prices around 300,000 shekels ($80,000), urging "return to ancestral land."

The Litani River itself has been a coveted strategic water resource for Israel since early Zionist proposals in 1919, when leaders like Chaim Weizmann argued for its inclusion in the Jewish homeland to support agriculture & immigration - ambitions echoed by Ben-Gurion & Dayan, who viewed it as Israel's natural northern border.

This is not merely about security buffers or temporary military needs.

It is about land acquisition, demographic engineering, annexation, and permanent expansion under the cover of war.

The footage and stills show what they are trying to take: a region of profound natural, historical, and cultural richness.

This is what is at stake, & what the resistance is fighting against, & will not allow to materialise.

This is what the headlines rarely show.
This is what they are trying to steal. 😔🕊️

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

The scenes we saw in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Ayr last night are unacceptable.

Scotland is a welcoming nation and those who choose to make their lives here are valued members of our communities.

Racism, hatred and intimidation have no place in Scotland. We must stand against it.

[Fr. John Whiteford ☦️ 🇸🇴 公 公 @frjohnwhiteford]

This is the last completely Christian village in the Holy Land. This is what Israel just did to it. Are you going to do anything about it, Ambassador Huckabee? @USAmbIsrael

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Gianni Infantino taking a corner.

No more words are necessary.

[Burak Özdemir @burakozdemr]

ABD, İsviçreli Embolo'ya vize vermedi. İncelemeye alındı, günler sonra takıma katılabildi.

İran Milli Takımı günlerce Ankara'da konsolosluk önünde vize için beklemek zorunda kaldı. ABD sadece maç günleri ülkeye giriş yapma şartıyla verdi. Arka planda çalışan 15 kişiye vize verilmedi.

Irak Milli Takım oyuncusu, ABD'ye gitti, ancak 7 saate yakın sorguda tutuldu. Sonrasında ülkeye girişine izin verildi.

Afrika'da 2025 yılının en iyi hakemi seçilen ve turnuvada görev alacak olan Omar Artan'a vize verilmedi. Somali kendisine diplomatik pasaport verdi ve ABD'ye uçtu, ancak girişine izin verilmedi ve ülkesine gönderildi.

Güney Afrika Milli Takımı kafilenin yarısına vize verilmediği için planlanandan çok sonra ABD'ye gidebildi.

Birleşik Krallık vatadaşlarının ESTA sistemine kayıt olmaları halinde 90 gün vizesiz ABD'ye giriş hakları olmasına rağmen İskoç taraftarların vizeleri günler kala iptal edildi.

Biletlerini alan otellerde yerini ayırtan ABD vizeleri reddedildi. Paraları da yandı.

Dört yılda bir yapılan bir turnuvanın başlamadan içine ettiniz beyler! @FIFAWorldCup @FIFAcom

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it.

May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.

As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.

Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)

The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

How many more children do the IDF have to kill before the UK government introduces a comprehensive sanctions programme? https://t.co/PEhcbzXH6Z

[Mark Eglinton @MarkEglinton]

All I want from Celtic

1. A degree of harmony / communication between support and club heirarchy.

2. A good team on the pitch driven by a forward looking football dept.

3. The chance to compete on the European stage.

4. Development of young talent

5. A decent game day experience at CP for everyone befitting of 2026

That’s it ☘️☘️☘️

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The “uninvolved civilian” they shot at was a SEVEN MONTH OLD BABY.

His name was Sam Fahd Abou Haikal.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The Israeli army shot dead a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank.

It was in broad daylight.

The father says:

"I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car."

Israel routinely kills babies - and the West is silent.

[Celtic Supporters Ltd @celticCSL]

The Celtic Paradox. Day 3 of 5: The Governance Case.

Celtic's biggest shareholder attended 0 of 6 board meetings last year. His son sat in for him, on terms the annual report doesn't disclose.

Five of the eight directors are past the nine-year independence benchmark. The non-execs average 22.5 years in the same seats.

None of it is illegal. All of it is a choice.

About 29,000 ordinary shareholders, scattered, can't change any of it. One block can.

Read Day 3 in full: https://t.co/X47WNcYhSc

£10 a month adds your vote. Join at https://t.co/5DKHXsiOIa
#CelticParadox #CSL

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazário drops a bombshell:

'What is happening in Gaza is not a war... it is a systematic extermination of a people trapped in a cage.'
'The silence of the world is frightening... and staying silent about this brutality is a moral failure.'
'I will not be silent... I will never be silent. I stand with Gaza.' 🔥🇧🇷🇵🇸"

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The genocide in Palestine and the mass murder in Lebanon must be stopped

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

En la noche de ayer, el conflicto en Líbano se saldó con cuatro ataques de mortero a la base española Miguel de Cervantes, un casco azul serbio fallecido y dos españoles heridos.

Nuestra condena más absoluta a la violencia y todo nuestro apoyo a quienes se juegan la vida por defender la paz bajo la bandera de las Naciones Unidas.

Esperamos que todas las partes cumplan íntegramente el alto al fuego anunciado ayer y que las hostilidades terminen. La paz es el único futuro.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

These are the four college girls, including one American citizen, the IDF kidnapped in the middle of the night from their homes and threw into their torture dungeons.

Jolan Abu Awwad, Natali Abu Dayya, Laila Nael Khalil, Sama Safi

Israel has a policy called “administrative detention” that allows them to kidnap Palestinians and imprison them for 6 month increments without any charges whatsoever. These holdings can drag out for years.

Over 3,000 Palestinians were being held on administrative detention in Israeli prisons on October 7. That’s why Hamas took all those Israelis back to Gaza. To exchange for their release.

But do you see how that works? When Israel kidnaps people and holds them for months and years on end, they are simply “prisoners on administrative detention.” But when Hamas does it, they are “hostages.”