Vanessa Beeley

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[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

My lastest article for @ukcolumn - on the ground in Sohmor a stronghold of resistance against the Zionist alliance for decades and a place of historic prominence in #Lebanon. Hugely important contributions from journalist @SondossAlAsaad for which I am so grateful as it added so much texture to the understanding of these wonderful people. Under attack yet resilient and courageous... welcome to Sohmor in West Bekaa:

https://t.co/Kfc9uvCr9S

[Hasan illaik @Hasanillaik]

العدوان الخارجي والاحتلال وامتهان السيادة؟ ورثها جوزف عون ونواف سلام. إذاً هما غير مسؤولين.
كارثة الكهرباء؟ ورثها جوزف عون ونواف سلام. إذاً هما غير مسؤولين.
أزمة المياه؟ ورثها جوزف عون ونواف سلام. إذاً هما غير مسؤولين.
كارثة المصارف؟ ورثها جوزف عون ونواف سلام. إذاً هما غير مسؤولين.
كارثة تعطيل الاقتصاد؟
كارثة الإدارة العامة؟
كارثة رواتب العسكريين؟
كارثة عدم تسليح الجيش؟
كارثة العدلية؟
كارثة النقل؟
الاتصالات؟
الكارثة البيئية؟
عدم احترام حقوق الإنسان في كل ما له صلة بالعلاقة مع السلطة وأجهزتها؟
كارثة السكن؟
كارثة تضخّم الأسعار؟
كلها وسواها ورثها جوزف عون ونواف سلام. إذاً هما غير مسؤولين. حسناً، هل يمكن أن يخبرنا أحد ما عن الأمور والقضايا التي يمكننا أن نسائل جوزف عون ونواف سلام عنها؟

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

Despite claims by the Lebanese government, which put the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar al-Gharbiya in the so-called "pilot zone," Israel has continued to attack the area as well as the twin village of Zawtar al-Sharqiya (East Zawtar).

After multiple attempts to enter Zawtar al-Gharbiya, after an initial curfew was imposed, I was unable to enter in the last two weeks. And now, the mayor, Abd Ezzeddine, has publicly stated that an Israeli drone came to him at his office's door, and "we had to open the door to Israel so it can see who's in the office."

The mayor went on to ask, directly his inquiry at the Lebanese government, that if this village is part of the so-called "pilot zone" framework, then he wants someone to explain how, since Israeli attacks are ongoing.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

@K2r42737 You don't "compromise" with Al Qaeda any more than you do with the genocidal entity. Russia does both. Bravo with your orientalist "local culture" BS, as if the West is not seeped in pedophilia, treason of Humanity and mass murder on a global scale.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

MI6 in Damascus and Russia Agrees to train Al Qaeda Militia on the Coast - Under the former President Assad, Russia could negotiate from a position of strength. Since the fall of Damascus and the rise to power of foreign mercenaries (including Chechen terrorists) under the banner of a MI6-remodelled Al Qaeda, Russia negotiates from a position of vulnerability and will continue to do so until perhaps they no longer have a presence in the region. Read more here: https://t.co/UeRPlzuZKT

[AxisOfResistance @Axis0fResistns]

Pinned article to my bio…Excerpt: Under the former President Assad, Russia could negotiate from a position of strength. Since the fall of Damascus and the rise to power of foreign mercenaries (including Chechen terrorists) under the banner of a MI6-remodelled Al Qaeda,…1/2

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

The "Houthis" 3 years later:

[William Peynsaert @PeynsaertBill]

A hero being slowly tortured to death with the whole world watching. Hussam Abu Safiya was born in 1973 into a family displaced from the Palestinian village of Hamama and raised in Jabalia refugee camp. Not exactly a head start in life. To the manor born he was not...

Still, he went to Kazakhstan to study medicine, met his wife Albina there, and returned with her to Gaza in 1996. With his skills he could have made millions in private clinics in at least 50 different countries, but no, he chose to support his people and share their fate.

He became a pediatrician and neonatologist: a man who had chosen to spend his life keeping children alive.

By 2024 he was director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last barely functioning hospitals in northern Gaza. Under bombardment and with doctors disappearing through death, injury and detention, Abu Safiya refused to abandon his patients.

Israel took almost everything from him before it took him. On 25 October 2024, his 15-year-old son Ibrahim was killed in a drone strike at the hospital entrance. Abu Safiya buried his child in the hospital courtyard and went back to work.

A month later, Abu Safiya himself was wounded by drone-fired shrapnel. He went back to work again. On 27 December, after Israeli forces emptied Kamal Adwan Hospital, the world saw him walking alone through the ruins toward an Israeli tank. He was arrested.

More than eighteen months later, he remains imprisoned without formal charges; his lawyer and human-rights advocates say his health has severely deteriorated and allege physical and psychological abuse, while Israeli authorities deny mistreatment.

There are people who talk about courage because they have never had to demonstrate it. Abu Safiya buried his son, treated the wounded while injured himself, watched the hospital around him being destroyed and still refused to leave the sick behind. Israel has alleged Hamas ties; no formal charges have been filed against him.

Perhaps that is why the image of him walking toward the tank is so difficult to forget. The tank contained an army. The man walking toward it had already lost his son, his hospital and almost everything else that could be taken from him.

He still walked forward.

Now Israel is slowly but surely murdering him AND enjoying every step of the slow motion execution.

The current power structures benefit from propping up Israel, so not even millions of people watching a vicious execution can stop rabid dog Israel.

Israel's license to kill shows us who really has power in this world.

Hint: it's not those who want to see talented physicians do their job.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

This is "New" Syria.

[Sermal @sermal_]

I swear to God, God gave them what they deserved, Sarsouri deserve to live in a garbage dump.

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

Rest in peace Hamidreza 💔🕊️

Hamidreza Rajanzadeh was an Iranian religious singer who was kidnapped & had his heart ripped out of his chest while still alive. He was dismembered, and parts of his body were sent to his family & workplace.

This was the work of the fascists who scream free Iran….

[Al-Amili العاملي 🇱🇧 @resist_truth]

🇱🇧🔰The heroic and historic Battle of Bint Jbeil during the July 2006 war on Lebanon.

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

I don't take anything reported by American or Western media at face value when it comes to the war on Iran, whether it is the latest claim about a "diminishing stockpile" or reports that Chief of Staff Dan Caine is supposedly looking for a way out.

If the US genuinely wanted to stop this war, it already knows exactly how to do it: abide by the MoU it signed and the agreement Trump proudly posed with for 101 photos.

And if Washington truly believed its stockpiles were running dangerously low, why would it be restocking, reorganizing and reinforcing its military presence across the region? Why would it continue attacking Iran, Iraq and Yemen? Why would it even participate in the attacks on Lebanon, reportedly using US warplanes stationed in Jordan, just as it did in 2006?

They would do it again in a heartbeat if they believed it was necessary to protect Israel's warmongering policies and its genocidal campaign.

So whenever Western media suddenly starts hyping American "failures" in exaggerated and almost theatrical fashion, I take a step back and ask a more important question: What are they preparing us for?

My reading is that Trump wants the war to continue, but he doesn't want the United States to bear the cost of it. He doesn't want American soldiers coming home in body bags because that is increasingly angering the American public. He doesn't want oil and commodity prices spiraling further. And he certainly doesn't want to spend indefinitely on another war in the Middle East.

What he appears to want is for the newly assembled "Sunni alliance" to carry more of the burden while Washington remains behind the curtain, giving the orders and selling the weapons and feeding just the absolutely necessary intelligence.

I could be wrong. But I believe we should be very careful about mistaking American propaganda about "war fatigue" for an actual intention to end the war.

In fact, I believe we may be witnessing the beginning of what could become one of the longest and most consequential wars of the post-modern era.

And the price will not be paid by Netanyahu or Trump alone.

The entire region will pay. The global economy will pay. And ultimately, ordinary people everywhere will pay a very heavy price for Netanyahu's genocidal ambitions and Trump's political and economic deliberate miscalculations.

Empires rarely disappear quietly. When this one eventually begins to crack, it will make a mess that the entire world, and generations to come, will have to live with.

And yet, perhaps there is a strange hope buried in all this destruction. The mess may be so profound that it finally forces humanity to confront, and perhaps once and for all, rid itself of the evil legacy of colonialism and the endless pursuit of domination.

Maybe, at the end of all this suffering, humanity will finally learn the simplest lesson it has somehow forgotten, that nations can exist without controlling others, that people can prosper without stealing someone else's resources, and that we can learn to live and let live instead of constantly seeking to dominate, exploit and subjugate one another.

[Sermal @sermal_]

Jolani = garbage dump

If Salafi gangs—the remnants of Al-Qaeda—were to seize control of your country, all your cities would turn into open-air garbage dumps.

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

Good points...

[Sarbaz Roohulla Rezvi @SarbazRezvi]

What does the Mecca defense agreement mean exactly? Do Saudi Arabia and Turkey want to bomb Afghanistan or India in case of a war? Or do Pakistan and Turkey want to bomb Iran and Yemen currently? Or do Saudi Arabia and Pakistan want to bomb Cyprus? Why is such a nonsensical agreement given the holy title of Mecca?

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Syria's Al Qaeda leader was talking for years before seizing power about breaking open the country - which before Assad's fall wasn't part of the IMF, World Bank or WTO - for foreign rape and pillage. I warned you about what was coming in December 2024:

https://t.co/1XBJNrHkHX

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

Tell Erdogan that the Ottoman Empire was buried in Yemen.

A Turkish song about the loss of many Turkish soldiers in Yemen

[🇵🇸 Islamic Resistance 🇿🇦 @resistance_ZA]

In his final speech, Abu Obeidah cursed the inaction of the Muslim world. The same Muslim world that signed a pact today in Mecca.

"You are our adversaries before Allah"

In this very same speech, he praised the Ansar'Allah of Yemen.

An apt moment for today!

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

This

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

One of the biggest misconceptions about Hezbollah is the belief that, because it possessed military power, its objective was to seize the state.

That fundamentally misunderstands the movement's own political doctrine.

For decades, martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah repeatedly argued that Lebanon needs a strong state, a strong national army, and institutions capable of defending the country. His vision was never that the resistance should replace the state, but that it should exist only as long as the state remained incapable of fulfilling its primary duty: defending Lebanon from Israeli/Takfiri aggression.

If power for its own sake had been the objective, the year 2000, after the liberation of South Lebanon, would have been the easiest moment to pursue it. Popular support was at historic highs, military superiority was unquestionable and the political landscape was far less hostile than it is today.

Yet that never happened.

Why? Because the resistance was built around confronting external occupation, not ruling over fellow Lebanese at gunpoint. There is a profound difference between a resistance movement and a militia seeking power. One fights an occupier; the other fights its own people.

You may disagree with Hezbollah's politics or strategy. But attributing to it ambitions it repeatedly refused to pursue, even when it had the means, ignores both the historical record and the ideological framework that has guided its decisions for decades.

Strength is measured not only by what you can do, but also by what you deliberately choose not to do.

So, hey you, keep your colonial mindset out of our affairs. You've already shown how quickly you can revert to playing the obedient servant whenever your patrons call... literally when your "daddy" calls.

[Al-Amili العاملي 🇱🇧 @resist_truth]

The brave armchair “pro-resistance” warrior is at it again. He thinks Hezbollah hasn’t considered the repercussions of such a move, which would fully sanction a country with only Syria (another sanctioned country) to rely on and the sea, which can easily be blockaded.

[روني الدنماركي @aldnmarki]

😃🇾🇪

[Vanessa Beeley @VanessaBeeley]

@Marwa__Osman 😅🤣🤣🤣