Times of Israel: "IDF chief finally acknowledges that Israel supplied weapons to Syrian rebels"
"Israel’s supply of weapons has been reported for years, including by Syrian opposition groups interested in expanding their cooperation with Israel in the fight against Assad"
#OPINION: If this week’s ceasefire agreement is setting up the Lebanese army to fail, with a temporary ceasefire as a test, then the next war could involve more than just #Hezbollah, writes @Confusezeus https://t.co/piJurCsX2M
#Lebanon#Israel
Timing of this is mostly product of US pressure. 60 days will be January 25, 5 days into Trump administration and Israel could re-evaluate.
For Lebanon, a country with dysfunctional gov., no president, the decision was never Beirut’s when war would start or end.
For Hezbollah, it survived its second major war with Israel but does not have same clout, is more vulnerable internally than 2006.
For > million Lebanese displaced, hard work starts now. Some towns completely wiped out.
According to Michel Foucault: 'Truth’ is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. https://t.co/0Sww2OZhP5
The most striking manifestation of Culture War Denialism is the claim that there is no such thing as cancel culture, and that those who argue otherwise are simply promoting a right-wing myth
https://t.co/19oFodw7Sa
How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture. #CancelCulture
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact.
https://t.co/rWMP3iZ1y8
Michel Foucault understood that truly free people must be willing to choose death, like the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. What would he make of the restrictions on liberty in our efforts to safeguard life from #Covid_19?
https://t.co/qzmCiNXLHl
“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”
― Michel Foucault