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@ispfrasheri | @AleksanderMoisiu University | Politics | Western Balkans

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

In his @FT interview, @ediramaal answered citizens protesting over the Kushner-linked resort with accusations, deflection and contempt. Calling the square a foreign plot, or replying with “f**k you” to those demanding answers, is not leadership. When people ask about protected land, money laundering and power, democracy requires respect. The square must be heard, not insulted. Albania deserves transparency, not arrogance.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

The Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory presents new report to the UN Human Rights Council.

"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted & killed by the Israeli security forces."

https://t.co/vMARqOLxpC

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Remarkable. Even when Republika Srpska representatives go to 🇷🇺 there is also a 🇧🇦 flag at the official meetings, but here 🇮🇱 omits the state flag of 🇧🇦 and has only an RS flag.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

במהלך 24 השעות האחרונות:
1. חייל צה"ל ירה והרג תינוק פלסטיני בן שבעה חודשים בחברון
2. צה"ל הרג קצין בכיר בצבא לבנון ושני חיילים לבנונים נוספים בתקיפה אווירית בדרום לבנון
3. מתנחלים, בסיוע של לפחות חייל צה"ל אחד (ראו סרטון), ביצעו פוגרום בכפר הפלסטיני חווארה. תשעה פלסטינים נפצעו

[Ardian Muhaj @muhaj_ardian]

I am truly pleased and honored to have been part of the team of authors behind the study “Ancient DNA evidence for the history of the Albanians,” recently published in Nature Human Behaviour... This important collaborative work brings together genetics, history, archaeology, and linguistics to shed new light on one of the most debated questions in Balkan and European history: the origins and historical continuity of the Albanian people. It was a privilege to contribute to such a meaningful and interdisciplinary project.
https://t.co/F6grMZpvl5

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

90-100% displaced
3.4% killed, 8% injured
77% face acute food insecurity
92% of buildings damaged/destroyed
93% of schools damaged/destroyed
61 million tons of debris
4% of agriculture undamaged
$71 billion needed to rebuild

And some people still don't call this genocide?

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

Netanyahu: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day”

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that. He also made it clear to me that the main issue on the agenda for President Trump and the United States is the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be in decades, no enrichment within Iran. That is their focus, and of course it is also important to us."

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

It appears that the zero enrichment poison pill killed the Islamabad negotiations yesterday. We have 9 more days in this cease fire to fix this, but we must pursue our goals not Israel's.

Trump's redline has always been no nuclear weapons for Iran, not zero enrichment. Iran agrees with this and has not sought to develop or obtain a nuke since 2003 but needs to retain the ability to enrich for their "not Saddam but not Qaddafi" policy to work.

This makes negotiations between the U.S. & Iran workable as the dispute is on levels of enrichment and monitoring.

This is a threat to Israel getting us to do the heavy lifting in the regime change/decapitation war they want.

Israel needs us chasing every trace of uranium in Iran because that ensures we stay engaged militarily in Iran, because how do we ever fully make sure Iran can't enrich without taking out the regime?

This is the recipe for an endless bloody war or supporting/turning a blind eye to Israel using a WMD on Iran.

Restrain Israel, get a deal, open the SOH, focus on saving our Republic, not playing empire.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

🤔

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Unfortunately leaving NATO won’t be to avoid foreign entanglements, we’ll be leaving NATO so we can side with Israel when Turkey & Israel eventually clash in Syria.

This is after we helped topple the secular Syrian gov & installed a former AQ/ISIS leader as president.

Time to stop playing arsonist & fireman in the Middle East, it’s just not worth it.

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

War has rules. Going back to the Stone Age isn’t just losing buildings and infrastructure — it’s losing the moral ability to conduct actions. As a professor, watching universities destroyed and scientists killed is deeply disturbing.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Disgraceful!

The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.

It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov

And Trump just bombed it...

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

A law that is not equally applicable to all is not a law; it’s an instrument of oppression.

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. https://t.co/2ANXrfQ7In

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱 Israeli army moved unusually fast after CNN’s team got assaulted and detained in the West Bank:

- An entire battalion was suspended and sent back for training in just 48 hours
- The soldier who bragged about “revenge” and helping illegal outposts got kicked out of the army
- The soldier who attacked CNN’s cameraman is now under military police investigation

Jeremy Diamond pointed out the obvious: this kind of quick accountability rarely happens when Palestinian journalists are the ones getting roughed up.

When an American network is involved, suddenly the system works overtime. Interesting how that works.

Source: CNN / Jeremy Diamond (March 2026)

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

While covering the latest Israeli settler attack in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers assaulted my photojournalist @cyrilthps and detained my team.
But our 2-hour detention revealed a lot about the motives of these Israeli soldiers: acting in service of the settler movement.
W/ @AbeerSalmanCNN

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

This is beyond anything comprehensible!

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is the moment Israeli forces hand over a small Palestinian child to the Red Cross

The Israelis had reportedly tortured him by extinguishing cigarettes (!) on his tiny body in front of his father in order to extract confessions

Israel is doing this with American tax money

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

This is what actual moral clarity means!

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

Who could have imagined, 15 years ago, that Tucker Carlson would criticize The Economist’s editor for not being sufficiently critical of Israel?

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

My @nytopinion obit of Khamenei https://t.co/CgFPRHfJva

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

Special Edition: A Questionable War of Choice (February 28, 2026) https://t.co/hQcPDaAtH3

[Mentor Beqa @mentorbeqa]

What Epstein case revealed is that Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut presents a sanitized and softened version of the reality in which political and economic elites operate.

[Admirim @admirim]

Former Council of Europe chief Jagland, who promoted the organ harvesting lies and other anti-Kosovo narratives, was Epstein's backchannel to the Kremlin and a regular in Epstein's circle.

"I can't keep it going only with young women as you know," he tells Epstein.

"I have been in Tirana (Albania) extraordinary girls," he says in another disturbing email.