Tarek El-Khatib

Tweeting about #Lebanon, the Middle East, #UX and things that amuse and bemuse me!!

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@Georges__Haddad Fireworks...

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@LindseyGrahamSC So @SenJoniErnst, @LindseyGrahamSC, we're supposed to take all of Israel's bombings and ceasefire violations and ask them how much further they'd like us to bend over? Otherwise we disappoint you? Also if we pay you both the $1.6mn AIPAC paid you, would you be less disappointed?

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, met today with American social media influencers and told them that TikTok is the “most important” “weapon” in the fight to secure Israel’s base on the right.

“Weapons change over time… the most important ones are on social media,” Netanyahu said, before quizzing the group on what’s the most important one that is being “purchased” right now. One influencer guessed “bots.” Netanyahu corrected them: “TikTok.” He added that the other key platform is X, stressing Elon Musk is “not an enemy” and must be engaged.

He urged the content creators to help secure support on the right for the Israeli apartheid state.

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@fatimahammoudd @Ibrahim_mneimne ليكون نائب المنطقة؟

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

Super clear thread about how #DeepSeek seems to have shifted the paradigm on how AI LLMs work...

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@nasdaily This didn't age too well, did it!! 😂

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@dyalabadran I swear I work with such people!!

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

In honor of Jon Stewart's impending return to the Daily Show, some of his best hits on Palestine:

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

.@bbc presenter: why did the Houthis got involved when you are not located near Gaza?
Al-Houthi: “So Biden and Netanyahu live in the same apartment? And the French president lives on the same floor? And the UK prime minister lives in the same building? Or are they thousands of miles away from Israel?”
https://t.co/QqoEcL08bs via @middleeastmnt

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

“No more business as usual.”

Protesters in over 300 cities protested in unison against pro-Israel corporations and institutions in a global day of action.

BT’s @KeiPritsker tracked the different protests in NYC and around the world.

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

True face of Zionists. You’ll never see racism like this again.🇮🇱

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Martin Luther King Junior 16 April 1963

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

We should ask ourselves; why were people in Lebanon afraid of ISIS in 2014? What would have ISIS done? Violently attack LGBTQ persons? Go after comedians? Punish religious clerics who disagree with it? Take over banks and steal people's deposits? We're already here.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Whaaaaaaat?

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

(Car trouble, parked by the side of the road)
Two guys come and drop a bed mattress on the side of the road. 20 minutes later three guys come, strip down the mattress, throw the sponge and cloth and take the metallic springs. Lebanon is a fascinating place!

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

Is it too early to blame hurricane Ian on god's wrath on Floridians for choosing DeSantis???

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

The NSO Group is running a disinformation campaign to undermine the Pegasus Project—because of course they are—but @Amnesty just demolished it:

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

@YaraNAlmously Yes!! Me too. But can't find anything about it on the internet...

[Tarek El-Khatib @eltooks]

So, so far, #Israel has:

- Killed dozens of innocent children and adults
- Killed doctors
- Destroyed hospitals
- Destroyed media offices
- Attacked ambulances
- Destroyed the roads ambulances drive on to get to the injured
- Blew up schools
But it's the Palestinians' fault?

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Israel just intentionally destroyed press offices in Gaza, giving only one hour's warning. Associated Press President "horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy news organizations in Gaza."

Imagine this was your home:

https://t.co/8fGMaIBASP