🚨🇦🇪🇺🇸 Prominent UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just published an open letter to Trump. It's brutal.
"Who gave you the authority to drag our region into a war with Iran? Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?"
Al Habtoor's a major figure: billionaire, former diplomat, outspoken political voice in the Gulf. When he talks, UAE leadership's listening.
His questions:
* Was this your decision or Netanyahu's pressure?
* Did you calculate collateral damage before firing?
* You placed GCC countries at the heart of danger they didn't choose
* Your "Board of Peace" initiatives were funded by Gulf states. Now we're getting attacked. Where did that money go?
* You promised no wars. You've conducted operations in 7 countries: Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, Iran, Venezuela
* 658 airstrikes in your first year back = Biden's entire term (which you criticized)
* War costs $40-65 billion for operations, possibly $210 billion total
* Your approval rating's down 9% in 400 days
* Americans were promised peace. They're getting war funded by their taxes
The sharpest line: "Before the ink has dried on your Board of Peace initiative, we find ourselves facing military escalation that endangers the entire region. So where did those initiatives go?"
Al Habtoor's not some random critic. He's establishment. Connected. When UAE elites start publicly questioning Trump's decision-making, that's America's closest Arab allies saying "we didn't sign up for this."
The letter ends: "True leadership is not measured by war decisions, but by wisdom, respect for others, and pushing toward achieving peace."
@KhalafAlHabtoor
🇮🇱 NETANYAHU TELLS CHRISTIANS "ISRAEL'S THE ONLY SAFE PLACE IN MIDDLE EAST" - LEBANESE CHRISTIANS WHO'VE BEEN THERE 2,000 YEARS CALL BULLSHIT
Netanyahu's Christmas message to the world: Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christians can live in peace.
One problem. Lebanon exists.
Lebanon - where the president must be a Maronite Christian by constitutional law. Where Christians have held political power continuously since independence. Where churches predate Islam by 400 years. Where Christian communities have survived empires, crusades, and civil wars for 2 millennia.
But sure, the only safe place is Israel.
This isn't a message for Middle Eastern Christians. It's a message for American evangelicals who don't know Lebanon exists and think "Middle East" means one undifferentiated war zone where only Israel protects minorities.
Here's what makes it particularly insulting: Palestinian Christians - the ones who actually live under Israeli governance in the West Bank - are watching their communities shrink, their churches surveilled, and their land carved up by settlements. Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, is walled off behind checkpoints.
But Netanyahu's selling Western Christians the story that Israel's their protector.
Meanwhile actual Lebanese Christians - who've maintained unbroken communities since the time of the Apostles - get erased from the narrative entirely.
Their existence is inconvenient to the propaganda.
The message isn't about protecting Christians. It's about recruiting American evangelical political support by weaponizing their concern for Middle Eastern Christians while ignoring what those Christians actually say.
You know who didn't ask for Netanyahu's Christmas message? Middle Eastern Christians. They're too busy living in the region Netanyahu claims they can't survive in.
Source: Netanyahu Christmas address, @IsraeliPM
https://t.co/psaJnH3MOc
Following the airstrike on a house in Sirbine in South Lebanon on Sunday 13th of October at 8am, Lebanese Red Cross ambulance teams were dispatched to the scene in coordination with UNIFIL.
As the team was searching for casualties to rescue, the house was hit for a second time resulting in concussions to the volunteers and damage to the two ambulances. The lightly injured volunteers were transported to a hospital and are in good condition
Lebanese Red Cross volunteers should be protected at all times while attempting to rescue casualties.
#Lebanon #lebaneseredcross #saferaccess
جرائم ابادة متتالية في بيروت. ٣٠٠ ذابت اجسادهم في عملية اغتيال نصرالله. مئات المجازر يوميا بحق المدنيين، وما من ادانة واحدة، واحدة فقط، من العالم الغربي لهتلر القرن الواحد والعشرين.
The #Israelioccupation is threatening all the villages of southern #Lebanon on the border with occupied #Palestine. Since the start of the war on #Gaza, these villages or their outskirts were not spared from Israeli shelling, whether by artillery or air strikes.
#Palestine #SouthLebanon #Lebanon #Gaza #GazaStrip #AlAqsaFlood
مسيّرة إسرائيليّة تستهدف سيارتين تابعتين للصحافي سمير أيوب بالقرب من حيّ المعصرة في بلدة عيناتا الجنوبية، ما أدى إلى إصابة أيوب وشقيقته بجروح فيما قُتل ثلاثة أطفال من أبناء شقيقته وجدّتهم.