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Sep 17, 2019 18 tweets 9 min read Read on X
Election day in Israel, and I’m back covering it for @MiddleEastEye!!! Image
@MiddleEastEye These pictures are everywhere, as Netanyahu tries to capitalise on his mate Trump. But the far right are warning that the so-called 'deal of the century' isn't going far enough. middleeasteye.net/news/israels-f…
“We are only being told part of the truth. The good before the elections, the bad after,” Ayelet Shaked said on Friday Image
Israel's Labor party was the dominant force in politics for the country's formative decades. Now pollsters are predicting it could drop out of parliament all together middleeasteye.net/news/future-or…
Amir Peretz has been trying to move the party in a new, social democratic direction. “What Peretz is doing is important and brave, but the challenge might be bigger than himself,” an analyst told me. Image
Not voting Image
In Jerusalem’s Haredi Mea Shearim neighbourhood there are no polling stations. But there are these banners reading: “NO participation in the impure election for this Knesset” Image
Shai runs a gift shop. “I don’t see myself as part of this country. We have our own life here” Image
Israelis have the day off on polling day, so naturally they flock to the beaches of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Last time, Netanyahu turned up urging people to get off the sand and into the polling stations. I haven’t seen him yet Image
Bat-Shachar, 20, is from a settlement in the West Bank and voting for Ayelet Shaked. “She supports the settlements and the religious people” Image
I’ve been told to add the hashtag #israelelections2019
There are suggestions that, despite calls for a boycott, the Palestinian turnout is rather high. Yesterday me and @lubnamasarwa spoke to Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Galilee on why they may or may not vote #israelelections2019 middleeasteye.net/news/racism-an…
@lubnamasarwa Fifteen minutes until exit polls in the #israelelections2019 - check out what has happened throughout the day on @MiddleEastEye's liveblog middleeasteye.net/live/live-upda…
@lubnamasarwa @MiddleEastEye Five minute until the exit polls. They've been pretty wild and inaccurate in the past
@lubnamasarwa @MiddleEastEye The polls are out and all show Netanyahu falling short of a majority! So, the same as before then.
@lubnamasarwa @MiddleEastEye Our story from today. Was this election a waste of time? Well I had fun middleeasteye.net/news/israel-el… #IsraElex19v2 #israelelections2019
@lubnamasarwa @MiddleEastEye The results may be almost the same, but the outcome will be profoundly different. @lilygalili's excellent analysis in @MiddleEastEye plots the path from here #israelelections2019 middleeasteye.net/news/whatever-…

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Sep 30, 2020
My first piece from Libya is on Tarhuna, where I saw evidence of war crimes on an industrial scale middleeasteye.net/big-story/liby…
Around 80 bodies have been pulled from eight mass graves in Tarhuna, and 106 others were found in the local hospital’s morgue since the LNA retreated in June. It’s thought around 300 more people are missing.
Though it’s been weeks since the LNA and the Kaniyat who ruled Tarhuna left, gruesome remnants remain. Shot up cars, abandoned belongings of people disappeared, knots of hair in the mud.
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Aug 5, 2020
An utterly dreadful day in Lebanon.

- Negligence seems cause of blast

- Questions over how much grain country has left

- Destruction across the city

Follow @MiddleEastEye's live blog for the latest developments
middleeasteye.net/live/beirut-ex…
2,700 tonnes of highly explosive material sat in Beirut port for years.

@AlexJayMac explains what ammonium nitrate is and how it got to hanger 12 middleeasteye.net/news/beirut-ex…
Tens of thousands of Lebanese have joined online groups helping search for and identify the missing, @naddaxosman reports middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-b…
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Jun 20, 2019
There was a hell of a lot coming out of that UN report on Khashoggi's murder yesterday. Here's a thread of MEE's coverage of the highlights, starting with @davidahearst's news piece shar.es/a0xdKF via @MiddleEastEye
The report was around 100 pages long, but luckily we had @daniaakkad to scour through it to find some key points, such as @AgnesCallamard suggesting the CIA could have done more to protect Khashoggi shar.es/a0xdOF via @MiddleEastEye
Middle East Eye has been one of several publications handed bits from the Turkish audio of the murder, but yesterday the UN report revealed new details. I plotted @AgnesCallamard's narrative here: shar.es/a0xdRz via @MiddleEastEye
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Jan 22, 2019
Next up @cooglea discusses MbS, ‘who wanted to institute a reign of terror’
People don’t know the sheer number of people arrested he says
@cooglea notes the female rights activists who have reportedly been beaten, given electric shocks and subjected to sexual harassment and assault
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Jun 21, 2018
Is it me or does that painting of young Jumblatt silently judge the older version whenever he takes photos with dubious guests? Image
See also: Image
And this: Image
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