Fifi 🇵🇸 🇱🇧

From the River to the Sea Palestine WILL be Free

[Fifi 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @ffpandarules]

New profile pic and new handle folks!
Same Fifi

[Richard @ricwe123]

The Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

"Egypt charges hundreds of thousands of dollars for every passage through the Suez Canal, with fees exceeding one million dollars for large container ships and tankers. Turkey imposes transit fees for vessels passing through the Bosphorus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Panama collects hundreds of thousands of dollars per transit, reaching up to 500,000 dollars for large Neo-Panamax vessels. The United States also charges fees related to the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Yet when Iran keeps the Strait of Hormuz open for free passage for decades, without imposing any transit fees, despite facing sanctions, isolation, and relentless accusations, it is portrayed as the problem.

Isn’t it hypocritical to condemn Iran while ignoring the fact that many other countries profit from controlling vital waterways? And you still expect me to believe that Iran is the ‘bad guy’ here?"

[Socially inept vegetable 🥦 @Amarevia]

Man, those fake Disney/Pixar people in genAI ads are so freaking annoying. If you try to sell me a product with an ad like that, I'm going to assume your product is just as low quality as your genAI ads.

[Zaihan is me/he/they @zaihanisme]

Most of you are not ready to learn how insanely evil the US government and military are because this is just one instance in one country

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Just imagine having an estimated 32 million across the country taking part in ANY event in ANY other country across the world (God forbid in America), how do you think it would have turned out? With how much property damage, theft, harrassment and chaos? Does any country even have enough police force to organize and protect such massive crowds?

Well, that would never happen nor is policing even needed when followers of Imam Hussain bin Ali, peace be upon them, take to the streets to voice their grief and anger demanding revenge and accountability, because they know their activism is derived from the teachings of the Prophet of Islam Muhammed pbuh as per the words of Allah swt in the holy Qur'an.
This is who WE are.
Now tell us, who are you again? What do you represent?
On which side of history do you stand?

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Using phrasing like "Iran-backed Houthi rebels" — but not "US-backed Zionist settlers" when describing Israel is the hallmark of a biased, imperialist rag.

Forget politics — just from a linguistic viewpoint, what a bloody mouthful. Who wants to read that nonsense?

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

How is this not headline news all around the world?

Why aren't these images everywhere?

Imagine if this was an Israeli baby.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Marjane Satrapi was a genocidal Zionist racist Islamophobe, and no matter how many times you post that interview excerpt from 20 years ago or that one still from that shitty propaganda trash Persepolis, she was an unrepentant imperialist Zionist scumbag. Here she is last year:

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Before Oct 7…

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Joseph Aoun was not directing these words at Israel, which has invaded his country, but at citizens who’ve taken up arms to repel the invasion

He’s called for Hezbollah be disarmed, but issued no demand for immediate Israeli withdrawal

His mandate comes not from Lebanon’s population, which opposes normalization, but from the US and Saudi governments that installed him

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

ZIOS: it's antisemitic to say Jews control the media

ALSO ZIOS: controlling all the media is a lot of work. "Instead of trying to control the whole world," [yes, that's a direct quote], all we have to do is control AI, because people trust AI and that's where everyone is getting their information.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Do people think Israelis fall out of the sky? They are Americans. They are from Germany, Russia, the UK, France.

It's a Western colony. Founded, armed, and supported by the West, and made up of Westerners.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

This statement about Israel’s murder of Lebanese army personnel is outrageous.

They say “movement in the area requires coordination with the IDF.”

Excuse me? Lebanese Army movements INSIDE LEBANESE TERRITORY require “coordination” with Israel? Who gave the Israelis this authority???

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

Over the past two weeks alone, I personally have been denied housing in three different buildings across two different areas in Lebanon simply because I am a Muslim Shia woman who wears the hijab.

This was not a matter of price. In all the cases, landlords were already demanding four times the normal market rate. Some properties were publicly advertised at standard prices, only for prospective tenants to be told that those prices applied exclusively to Christians. For Muslim Shia applicants, the rent would suddenly triple.

Real estate agents openly questioned me about my sect. Because my name does not immediately reveal my background, I was repeatedly asked whether I was Sunni or Shia. More than once, I was specifically asked whether I was a Shia from South Lebanon, with claims that certain municipalities had circulated directives preventing locals from renting to "people like us".

To those engaging in this discrimination, understand that you are not weakening us. You are merely exposing a prejudice that serves the interests of those who seek to divide Lebanon. Terroist Israel is very proud of you since it undoubtedly benefits from every act of sectarian hatred directed against fellow Lebanese.

But listen well: this war will end. We will return to our homes, our villages, and our land in the South, where we belong. The houses that were temporarily filled will once again stand empty, the markets that briefly prospered will once again fall silent, and the bitterness that fuels such discrimination will consume only those who carry it from the inside out.

As for us, the people of South Lebanon, we will remain proud, dignified, resilient, and full of life. Through our grace under pressure, our generosity in hardship, and our refusal to surrender our humanity, we have demonstrated values far closer to the teachings of Jesus Christ than those who invoke His name while practicing exclusion and discrimination.

We will return home with our heads held high.

[Pax Curl @lebkitt]

This is what they did to my father’s grave and my grandparents and other family.
This is not a war on Hezbollah. This is a war on a people and their memory.

[Fifi 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @ffpandarules]

@yrfreakyneighbr I’m super happy for you Neighbour. It’s been a long time coming and thank you for sharing your journey with us! I am stoked to see Trachem’s official serialization! And to see Margaret and Seishin get their stories told!
I’m so happy for you! Seriously!!!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most important word in imperial media is "allegedly."

Palestinian health officials allege the death toll is 70,000.

Witnesses allege that the strike hit a hospital.

Survivors allege that soldiers committed acts of torture.

Allegedly.

Now watch how "allegedly" disappears when the victims are on the other side.

Hamas attacked. Hamas massacred. Hamas killed.

No "allegedly."

No "according to Israeli sources."

No epistemic caution.

The word "allegedly" is a small word that performs an enormous function.

It quarantines doubt.

It applies uncertainty surgically, to specific claims, made by specific people, specifically the people whose deaths and suffering the powerful would prefer you to hold at arm's length.

It is a one-word editorial policy.

It is a one-word verdict on whose testimony counts.

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

No community in Lebanon occupies a more paradoxical position than the Shia, who remain the only group forced to justify their belonging despite a thousand years of continuous presence on this land. While the Lebanese resistance currently serves as the sole effective shield against foreign aggression, the state persists in its historical pattern of abandonment. The central government has not only abdicated its sovereign responsibility to defend its people against Israeli crimes, but it has also facilitated the domestic vilification of the Shia. Through media apparatuses and official political discourse, their loyalty is treated as a suspicious anomaly and their cultural identity is systematically defamed.

​This contemporary interrogation of Shia belonging is the modern face of a deep-seated history of state-sponsored marginalization. During the Ottoman era, the inhabitants of Jabal Amel (south Lebanon) and the Bekaa were targeted as heterodox outsiders, enduring the brutal military campaigns of figures like Jezzar Pasha who sought to crush their intellectual and social independence. With the formation of Greater Lebanon in 1920 and the subsequent National Pact of 1943, this exclusion was institutionalized. The state was constructed as a kind of merchant republic that enriched the center while relegating the Shia to a neglected periphery, denying them the basic infrastructure of a modern life.

​The state has long weaponized the trope of the foreign agent to excuse this structural neglect. When Imam Musa al-Sadr led the movement for civil rights in the mid-20th century (Harakat al-Mahroumin, or the Movement of the Deprived), the ruling class dismissed these indigenous demands for justice as subversive imports. Today, a bitter irony persists where those who have long give their blood for the country's defense are characterized as proxies of external powers. To question the authenticity of the Shia identity is a failed attempt of intellectual erasure of Jabal Amel, which for centuries stood as a premier global sanctuary for Arab jurisprudence and philosophy. By casting our community as intruders, the state and its subordinates seek to divorce the soil from its most ancient cultivators. This is not simply a political disagreement as some here would like to frame it but an ontological assault on our community which is intended to sustain a system where the very people who preserve the nation’s existence are treated as pariahs within its borders.