LM

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 VP Vance just publicly broke with Netanyahu:

"Netanyahu has certainly gotten some things wrong.

Where that diverges, we, unfortunately for the Israelis, have to choose the side of the American people."

Trump reportedly called Netanyahu "effing crazy" over Lebanon. Now Vance is saying it on camera.

This is a different Trump term. In the first one, Israel got a blank check. This time, Trump is trying to close deals: Iran, Gaza, Lebanon. Netanyahu keeps blowing them up.

The alliance is no longer unconditional.

And Netanyahu is starting to find out what happens when Washington stops covering for him.

Source: BBC / Writer: Sol

[LCI @LCI]

🗣️ "Faire la différence entre la branche politique et la branche militaire du Hezbollah n’est absolument pas réaliste. Le Hezbollah est une seule et même entité au service de l’Iran, qui déstabilise le Moyen-Orient"

💬 Youssef Raggi, ministre libanais des Affaires étrangères

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump just fired 49 Tomahawks in a single night, and the man who ran America's counterterrorism center says the math behind this war stopped working a long time ago.

Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, says this week is exactly what he's warning about.

Over 100 days of massive combat power, multi-million dollar munitions burned nightly, all billed to the taxpayer for a tit-for-tat with no end date.

The risk-versus-gain makes zero sense, and Kent says Washington needs the diplomatic off-ramp before escalation removes the option entirely.

@JoeKent16Jan19

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇳 The UN is sending an investigator team to Lebanon next week to assess potential violations of international law.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk confirmed the deployment. All parties to the conflict are under the scope.

When the UN starts formally documenting violations, it usually means the evidence has already crossed a threshold they can no longer ignore.

Writer: Jamie

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

It is okay to be Jewish.

It is okay to attend your local synagogue.

It is okay to celebrate Hannukah.

It is not okay to use white phosphorus on civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Israeli spying became so normalized in Washington that officials stopped treating it as espionage at all.

U.S. Army Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor says the quiet acceptance has now matured into a full national security crisis, and the most uncomfortable part of his explanation is how the access was obtained in the first place.

"There are billionaires in the United States who have paid members of Congress to provide the access."

When the reckoning eventually arrives, he warns, the generals who watched it happen will have no good answer for why they said nothing.

@DougAMacgregor

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Pentagon espionage bombshell just got worse...

New reporting confirms Israel has been eavesdropping on the American peace negotiators themselves.

The targets named: Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator with Iran. Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's policy chief.

And Michael DiMino, who runs Middle East policy.

Israel wasn't just collecting on America generally.

It was listening to the specific men writing the deal Netanyahu opposes.

What's wild is the documented incidents read like operations against an enemy state.

American defense personnel in Israel discovered spyware surreptitiously installed on their phones.

In 2021, Israeli military intelligence officers were caught planting listening devices at DIA headquarters.

Last year, Shin Bet officers were discovered trying to bug a Secret Service vehicle.

A SECRET SERVICE VEHICLE.

One senior official described the Israeli collection effort against top U.S. officials as "unhinged."

And the rating in context: Israel's counterintelligence threat level is now higher than any other American ally and EVEN HIGHER than some adversaries.

Notice who got targeted.

Colby is the most prominent advocate of foreign policy restraint in the government.

DiMino runs Mideast policy. Witkoff writes the deal.

Israel's espionage maps perfectly onto the people standing between Netanyahu and the war he wants to continue. They bugged the peace.

All of this while Israeli officers sit inside CENTCOM with unprecedented access, while Congress moves Section 224 to link the two militaries' systems and data permanently, and while Huckabee negotiates the framework.

The Pentagon says the ally is spying at a critical level.

Washington's answer is to hand them the keys to the network. Please make it make sense...

Source: NYT

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Israel targeting senior U.S. officials cannot be accepted by our government.

This is not standard practice, especially considering the fact that Israel survives on our defense funding & diplomatic top cover.

Until we actually take away the support we give Israel they will keep playing us as fools.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Ben-Gvir just publicly called the Lebanon ceasefire a serious mistake and demanded a cabinet vote to overturn it.

Ex-CIA Larry Johnson says that means Trump made serious demands of Israel and appears to be backing them up.

Ben-Gvir screaming about sovereignty is the tantrum of someone who just got told the money and weapons stop if they don't comply.

"Israel is going to have to suffer a lot more pain before it says this strategy is not working."

@newsonof

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says Hezbollah will withdraw south of the Litani River if Israel simultaneously withdraws from occupied Lebanese territory.

Source: TABZ (Telegram)

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱Israel's military runs a propaganda school.

A leaked Ministry of Defense tender shows Israel trains up to 320 military and security personnel every year in:

- Psychological warfare
- Deepfake creation
- Audience profiling
- Influence campaigns
- "Black Hat" techniques to bypass Facebook and Google restrictions

And between 2023 and 2024, the IDF ran a covert influence operation disguised as a fact-checking organization.

This isn't just battlefield strategy. Israel is building a full industrial pipeline for information warfare, teaching its personnel how to shape what people believe, and how to get around Big Tech when it gets in the way.

320 people a year. Every year.

Source: +972 Magazine

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧🇮🇱🇮🇷 Lebanon’s PM on Israel: “Lebanon is NOT a bargaining chip in anyone’s game. Have mercy on our South.”

He urges the world to pressure Israel… while warning Iran to stop using them as a reserve front.

Source: Al Jazeera, LBCI

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🌍🇮🇱 A major Pew survey finds 67% of adults across 36 countries hold an unfavorable view of Israel. Only 25% view it favorably.

🇧🇩🇮🇩🇲🇾🇵🇰🇹🇷 Hostility is highest in Muslim-majority countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey)
🇮🇹🇳🇱🇪🇸 In Europe, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands, two-thirds or more hold a "very unfavorable" view
- Unfavorable views rose in 13 of 24 countries with trend data since the Iran war began
🇦🇷 Argentina: up from 46% to 55% unfavorable
🇦🇺🇮🇹🇳🇬🇵🇱🇬🇧 Double-digit rises in: Australia, Italy, Ireland, Poland and UK.

Most interviews were conducted after the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began February 28.

Source: Pew Research / Al Jazeera

[ELITE MASCULINE @MasculineM7]

She met him at the club, thought it was smart enough to slap him because she thought she would get away with it. He didn’t react it get violent, he just got her arrested. Now that’s how you handle it.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Smotrich: 'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.'

Generational evil

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel is now openly calling it the "Gaza model" in Lebanon

2,600 dead, over a million displaced, dozens of towns near the southern border completely flattened. A several-mile-deep buffer zone Israel says it plans to permanently occupy.

Deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure at this scale, paired with mass displacement, is the definition of what war crimes tribunals were built for.

The part that makes this different from Gaza is the explicit admission… Israeli officials aren't hiding the playbook.

Source: NYT

[Lebanese Presidency @LBpresidency]

رئيس الجمهورية العماد جوزاف عون في تحية إلى دور الشباب اللبناني ونجاحاته الرياضية:

رغم كل المآسي والمعاناة، ما زال الشباب اللبناني يجترح الفرح والفوز.
مبروك كريستوفر فغالي (١٧ سنة) الفوز في يوروكاب فورمولا ٣.
نتطلع الى نجاحاتك المقبلة.
ونحلم معك، ونناضل لمستقبل جيلك، من أجل وطن يستحق أحلامكم ويستأهل انتصاراتكم.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Tucker going hard on Trump:

“Trump is being held hostage by Benjamin Netanyahu and by his many advocates in the U.S.”

Calling him a hostage is quite tough, even for Tucker, but that's an opinion widely shared for a bunch of dissapointed people on Trump nowadays.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧 Lebanon's PM Nawaf Salam: We will work to reclaim every inch of occupied territory.

Right now, that's 55 towns and villages in the south, with Israeli evacuation orders covering roughly 14% of the country.

Over 1 million Lebanese have been displaced so far.