ريم

Lebanese-Algerian. Anti-imperialist. الهدف واضح ومحدّد ودقيق.

[ريم @rymnotreem]

بعيداً عن أسلوب السخرية والاستفزاز، هناك فكرة واحدة مشتركة تتكرر في الخطاب المعارض لخيار العمل المقاوم. إن كان في فلسطين أو لبنان أو سوريا أو أي دولة في المنطقة: أن تقاوم قوى لديها قدرات عسكرية ومادية وسياسية أكبر بكثير من قدراتك هو مشروع انتحاري وغير عقلاني ورومنسي وعاطفي. -

[Ali Jezzini @Aly_jezzini]

محمد كان تمثيلاً لفكرة المجاهد المثالي، الكمال لله، ولكن المقصد بأخلاقه، تواضعه، اندفاعه وشجاعته بعد اكثر من اصابة، فكرة انه لما تشوفه تقول مستحيل يكون بالموقع يلي ادعى الاسرائيلي انه كان فيه، او انه نكّل فيهم بالقدر يلي اعلنوا عنه، "مئات العمليات".
ابن عمّتي، سلّم على الشهداء.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

My gosh.
Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians.
Today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi, of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — which also organized Gaza screenings of the matches.

[Nos Kabse @noskabse]

الحلقة الاولى: حـ.رب ال ٦  صوا.ريخ على دولة نووية

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I’m trying to imagine being 20 years old and being ordered to torture an elderly celebrated physician who’s being endlessly detained without charges. Most would refuse that order. It’s an indictment of Israeli society that they seem to have no problem finding people to do it.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.

US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.

But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

I've just visited the largest funeral in history, where millions mourned Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader who was assassinated by the US-Israeli coalition along with members of his family

It is practically impossible to understand what this scene is like, or what it means, unless you're here. I've met people from around the world who've come to pay respects, including many from across the West. The crowds pouring in are endless, and grow larger and more intense into the night.

From Tehran's Mosala, there are indignant calls for vengeance, displays of sorrow and defiance, protest, songs and marathons of poetry. These days of mourning will amount to one of the most resonant moments in the history of anti-imperialist movements.

Everyone I've spoken to believes war will return to Iran before long, and none trust the MOU with the US. But they are confident their country can deter another assault. They see their own citizens' mobilization as an integral component of Iran's survival.

If the assassination of Khamenei was designed to spur regime change, his funeral demonstrates how badly it has backfired. And the crime may blow back in ways its historically illiterate authors could have never imagined.

What we're witnessing in the Mosala consolidates the Islamic Republic and its revolutionary society as a political reality that can not be erased through regime change war or sanctions. This is a turning point in the region that will echo for a generation.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest oligarch is the biggest Welfare recipient in history, by orders of magnitude.

[Hasan illaik @Hasanillaik]

في اتفاقية الذل والعار، جوزف عون يطالب بإدخال قوات الجولاني إلى لبنان!
في كل بند من بنود الاتفاق، مارس جوزف عون الخيانة العظمى التي توجب محاكمته. في البند الرابع من اتفاقية الشراكة (الذيلية) بينه وبين نتيناهو، وتحديداً في العبارة الأخيرة من البند، يطالِب جوزف عون بإدخال قوات الجولاني (من دون تسميتها) لمساعدته على تنفيذ المطلب الإسرائيلي في الاتفاق.
النص الحرفي للبند:
"تؤكد حكومة لبنان مجدداً التزامها الحازم وغير القابل للتراجع باستعادة وممارسة السيادة الكاملة على جميع أراضيها. وستعمل حكومة لبنان على إعادة بناء احتكار الدولة لاستخدام القوة، وتحقيق نزع السلاح الكامل والمتحقَّق منه لجميع الجماعات المسلحة غير التابعة للدولة، وضمان عدم اضطلاع هذه الجماعات بأي دور عسكري أو أمني وعدم امتلاكها أي قدرات مسلحة في أي مكان داخل لبنان. وبموجب هذا الإطار، تطلب حكومة لبنان دعم الشركاء الدوليين، ولا سيما العرب، تحت قيادة الولايات المتحدة لتحقيق هذه النتيجة".
(لينك الفيديو في التعليقات)

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Lebanese MP and international law professor Halima el Kaakour to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam:

"How can you approve the clause stating that the parties must ‘refrain from taking any hostile or adversarial measures in international political or legal forums?’ Does that mean giving up the right to pursue legal action over war crimes and crimes against humanity? You are denying justice to the thousands of victims of war crimes, while in the very same text speaking of ‘peace?’! Don't you realize that there can be no peace without justice?"

[Nate George @ngeorge00]

The Lebanese state has once again subcontracted the genocidal Israeli military to fight its internal enemies. This has been an understanding practiced since the late 1960s, including the 1982 invasion, & formalized in the May 1983 agreement. 🧵

[Nicolas Sawaya @sawaya_nicolas]

I read the Lebanese-Israeli framework agreement carefully (see comments for full text). I break it down, article by article, below (pay special attention to articles 2, 4, 8 and 9).

Overall, just a terrible, shameful agreement, especially when the far better alternative of leaning into the US-Iran MoU was available (and we haven't even seen the "security annex" yet, which I'm sure reflects even more sovereignty-enhancing measures for the Lebanese govt).

Preamble and Article 1:

In essence, Lebanon agrees to recognize Israel, to end the technical state of war between them (ongoing since 1948), and pledges to normalize relations through future agreements. Keep in mind that normalization is only supported by a small minority of the country, with overwhelming opposition to it.

Article 2:

The sequenced process referred to in this article is Hizb disarmament first before Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory (that this is envisioned to happen in stages or via "pilot zones" makes no difference, as the sequence remains the same: first disarmament then withdrawal from a particular territory). This of course won't happen short of civil war.

Instead of leaning into US-Iran MoU that demanded Israeli withdrawal tout cours, the Lebanese govt has essentially legitimized occupation by making Israeli withdrawal contingent on Hizb disarmament (so no disarmament = continued occupation). This is also contrary to international law, which doesn't sequence withdrawal from occupied territory on disarmament of resistance groups. The Lebanese govt is willfully and foolishly throwing away leverage, because "sovereignty" apparently.

Article 3:

This article explicitly conditions reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure and return of civilians to their homes in any area under occupation on disarmament of Hizb and "dismantlement of their infrastructure" (to be executed incrementally via "pilot zones"). It's unclear who is doing the disarming and dismantling and how (the IDF, the LAF, or both in unison), but this should become clearer upon publication of the security annex; but see article 4 below.

Article 4:

Makes clear that the onus is on the Lebanese govt to "achieve the complete and verified disarmament" of Hizb. Again, this won't happen short of civil war, which Israel has been trying to foment in Lebanon since the beginning of the war.

Article 5:

We're supposed to believe that Israel has "no territorial ambitions in Lebanon", when several Israeli ministers and lawmakers have insisted otherwise, and Israel has formally conditioned their withdrawal from Lebanese territory on Hizb disarmament by the Lebanese govt first, which they know cannot happen.

Article 6:

Lebanese govt explicitly calls Hizballah military activities illegal and outside of the Law. This reiterates the govt's previous position, but by virtue of stating it within this broader Lebanese-Israeli framework, reinforces the view that the Lebanese govt is aligned with Israel in eliminating Hizb (as an armed actor).

Article 7:

Iterates the "right to self-defense" for Lebanon and Israel. We all know what the "right to self defense" means for Israel. They invoked their right to "self-defense" to commit genocide in Gaza, and had the temerity to invoke their right to "self defense" when Hizb recently killed 4 Israeli soldiers advancing within occupied Lebanese land to justify bombing dozens of Lebanese towns.

Article 8:

Notice how subtle but dangerous this language is in this article. The Lebanese govt is essentially affirming that Hizb poses a threat to Lebanon or to citizens of Lebanon. They've essentially declared Hizb, not Israel, as the enemy. Where does that leave Hizb supporters, which constitute a large segment of the Lebanese population?

Article 9 and 10:

The Lebanese govt commits to a "performance-based program" to disarm Hizb and accepts that any new US assistance is contingent on achieving milestones. This, apparently, is "sovereignty" according to the Lebanese govt. They're on probation and graduate only according to US (and presumably Israeli) performance reviews, with reconstruction funds and economic aid being dangled as carrots. Utter humiliation.

Article 11:

Intent is to strangle Hizb financially, with the US govt working with the Lebanese govt to ensure that.

Article 12:

Commitment to comprehensive "peace" agreement, which I interpret as a normalization agreement, although not crystal clear from this article. If so, this will be rejected by vast majority of country.

Article 13:

Another example of Lebanese govt volunteering to throw away any leverage by, for e.g., forgoing the option to accept the ICC's jurisdiction to investigate Israeli war crimes or to file formal complaints and letters against Israel with the UNSC.

Article 14:

The obligatory reference to thanking DJT

/END.

[Hasan illaik @Hasanillaik]

هذا اتفاق تطبيع أمني، اتفاق تحالف ذيلي، يصبح بموجبه جوزف عون تابعاً لنتنياهو، كما لأي رئيس حكومة إسرائيلي آخر. فإضافة إلى إنشاء لجنة أمنية مشتركة، ومنح الولايات المتحدة حق التحكم بإعادة الإعمار، وجعل الجيش الإسرائيلي وصياً على الجيش اللبناني للتحقق من تنفيذه "واجباته"، تعهّد جوزف عون بعدم ملاحقة كيان الاحتلال على أي جرائم ارتكبها سابقاً، او يرتكبها مستقبلاً. جوزف عون منح كيان الاحتلال حصانة قانونية تحول دون ملاحقته أمام أي مؤسسة دولية، قضائية كانت أم سياسية. كنت على اطلاع على الجو العام للاتفاق، إلا أن هذا البند فاق بسفالته كل التوقعات!

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "Every single detail of your day in [Israeli] detention is torture."

Palestinian journalist Mujahid Bani Mufleh was subjected to systematic torture, starvation, and medical neglect while held under Israeli 'administrative detention' without charge. Following his release after months of torture, Mufleh suffered a severe brain hemorrhage just two days later, leaving him in critical condition and forcing surgeons to remove a portion of his skull.

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has highlighted his emaciated, pale appearance and critical health complications as part of a wider, deliberate policy of "slow-killing" directed against thousands of Palestinian detainees.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It says an awful lot about France - and not in a good way - that there is "political divide" on using air conditioning when temperatures literally exceed those of the Sahara desert, and when France has one of the greenest energy mixes in the world (thanks to nuclear).

And it says even more that those who oppose AC are often the same as those who oppose nuclear: the view - presumably - is that you should neither adapt to climate change (AC) nor prevent it (nuclear).

Also the same people, incidentally, who oppose pesticides and fertilizers - basically modern farming - and push for all-organic: a prescription that, if universally applied, would literally starve billions of people (and, ironically, would require so much additional farmland it would devastate the world's remaining forests).

It's all part of the same logical fallacy, the notion that if something causes a problem, then that thing is the problem.

Yes progress and technology caused and continue to cause plenty of environmental issues. And there is indeed something seductive in saying "we've gone too far, let's change tracks, let's head towards a simpler, slower life, we used to be like that."

But not only is this just not feasible without causing far greater harm to ourselves, it's also a fundamentally nihilistic and mortiferous ideology. One that rests on a profound discomfort with what's arguably the single most defining feature of humanity: our ability to shape our environment to suit us, to fight our circumstances rather than surrender to them. That's been the case ever since we discovered fire and invented farming.

It is, at the end of the day, the transformation of humanity's genius - our need to create and improve our condition - into a vice. They make it sound like a humanistic project but how could it be since the core premise is fear of humans and contempt for our very nature?

Conclusion: yes, 100 times yes, use AC. You'd need to be a complete moron to let yourself boil under 43C heat in order to "save the planet." If climate change is to be solved, it will be by getting the ideologues out of the way of the people who actually fix things.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

He has had an emergency decompressive hemicraniectomy, left-sided, where the likely dominant brain side is damaged forever. He will probably never be able to speak again, and never be able to feel and move the right side of his body.
At his age, the reason for that is most likely a mass intracranial hemorrhage and swelling due to severe head trauma. He must have also spent a long time in a coma, hence the tracheostomy.

This is, without much room for doubt, the face of a tortured man who has barely survived an emergency procedure, which in normal circumstances would be extremely uncommon for someone his age - and whose quality of life has been reduced to almost zero forever.

[Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط @HadiHtt]

The commander of the Israeli 52nd armored brigade, responsible for most of Gaza's atrocities, cheering up his soldiers and officers before invading South Lebanon, 2 months ago.
He was barbecued with 3 other officers in their tank on the slopes of Ali Taher hill, 3 days ago, and Israeli command couldn't order their evacuation and had to beg Hezbollah through the mechanism committee to allow an evacuation force to go and bring what was left of their melted bodies from the burnt Merkava tank.
This is what happens when justice have the correct ATGM on its side.

[Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط @HadiHtt]

An explosion happened today morning in the outskirts of my village Doweir. Investigation lead to the discovery of many unexploded ordanances and munitions disguised as colorful kids footballs.
Israelis never fail to open a new low for human standards, and to be remembered as the Ghouls of our era.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Zionists murdered him after detaining him.