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Hussain Abdul-Hussain Profile picture
@hahussain
Jun 18, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
My friend and fellow colleague at Alrai, Eliya, who usually reports on Hezbollah's point of view accurately, says that #Lebanese hunger encourages war against #Israel.

alraimedia.com/Home/Details?i…
Sounds like a veiled threat, which Nasrallah also voiced in his speech, when he said "if you make us choose between surrendering our arms and hunger, we will not go hungry and we'll kill you."
In the early days of the #Syrian revolution, Assad's cousin Makhlouf told US media that the collapse of the Assad regime will unleash chaos on Israel. This is the same pattern, whenever things go bad, threaten Israel.

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Apr 23
I was once a student at the American University of Beirut (@AUB_Lebanon), and I was fascinated by pro-Palestine activists who had been in my shoes decades earlier. I read every word in the university archives, learnt the history, and was determined on mimicking it. I helped revive the student publication after a 22-year hiatus (forced to shut down by #Lebanon civil war), and I became its editor-in-chief for four years. I ran for election and served on student government twice, was one of the most active student organizers on campus. I had a feeling that Palestine was the victim, totally in the right, and everybody else -- #Israel, US, the establishment, my parents -- were in the wrong.

My obsession saw me chase the activists that I idolized, and I managed to sit with many of them (they were my parents age by then, the age of the grandparents of today's college students). To my dismay, most of them had changed and moved on, or, as one of them put it to me, "we matured." I too matured, eventually, but only after realizing -- through personal experience -- that Palestine does not exist, not because of Israelis, but because of Palestinians.

Below is a quick story about the tumultuous AUB events in the 1970s:
In 1971, the AUB student Council held a sit in that was coupled with a coup-like student takeover of university buildings. Headed by Economics MA student Maher Masri, the council even appointed a student as a Dean of Arts and Sciences. The students demanded that AUB walk back a tuition increase, but also to have a say in all university affairs, including budget and received US aid. Some students proposed to change the name of the university to take out the word American, given America's support of Israel and all the other abominations that evil America had presumably committed.
AUB canceled the school year in 1971. Below, you see a picture of the campus's main gate, with a sit in, and "unfinished year." Students could not graduate or finish their degrees that year. The other picture captures student "siege" of faculty and administration, and the female students preparing food for the male students holding the siege.Image
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Before the 1971 student takeover of AUB, students had joined a conference that saw the participation of a list of "revolutionary student organizations" from around the world. Solidarity against White Man, America, colonialism was at its peak.
So much global solidarity that a year later, terrorists from the Japanese Red Army landed in the Ben-Gurion Airport and opened fire from their rifles, killing 26 civilians, 17 of them Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico. In Beirut, I met the main perpetrator Kozo Okamoto and a family member of the army's founder.Image
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Jan 3, 2023
I hesitated before stepping into this minefield.
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1/ Reaction focused on 2 points: Extremism associated with Ben Gvir and possible change in status quo (can cause war). Additionally, many Arabs were angry over Jewish access to what they believe is Muslim religious compound.
2/ Extremism or not of Ben Gvir is not the issue. Arabs get angry at all Jews — deemed extremist or moderate — who walk through this compound, call these walks “storming” of compound, describe Jews as “settlers.”
3/ Change of status quo means permanent demolition/building of structures in this disputed area. It does not include access of non-Muslims. Questions thus becomes: Why are non-Muslims not allowed access into the compound?
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Aug 26, 2021
A friend in Beirut, #Lebanon, posted the lines which I copy below. The effect of the #Iran regime is horrible, across the Middle East.
THREAD - 1/You wake up in sweat, in total darkness, no electricity to boil water for your coffee, boiling water using scarce gas is a waste.
2/ You start your day by checking US dollar rate. You queue up for hours at gas station, scared that a frustrated customer would get angry and pull out a gun, or that a fight might erupt, only to be told station ran out of gas when there's only two more cars in front of you
3/ In between calls to check if any diesel is available on the black market, you go to work, taking into consideration at what times generators go off, assuming that you have enough gasoline to make it to work. Business is bad nation wide, so you don’t get much work done anyway.
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Dec 14, 2020
THREAD: 1- One problem in conduct of many Muslims in Western countries is that they use Islam as an identity marker, to stand out, to carve a communal space and avoid assimilation, thus being part of a global cult that behaves like a cross-national, borderless nation
2- These Muslims who insist on having their religious identity trump their national (Western) identity insist that governments should allow them to practice their faith. But their faith -- if practiced to the letter -- undermines the very republic they are citizens of.
3- To keep their injustices standing, many Muslims in Western countries, such as #France, demand special treatment, especially for women, such as allowing a woman to be veiled while working as a civil servant or in the military. They say this is what #Islam stipulates.
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Dec 13, 2020
THREAD: #Iran intelligence tricked Zam into believing that Grand Shia Ayatollah in #Iraq Ali Sistani had invited him to Najaf. When Zam showed up, Iran kidnapped him from Iraq, will hang him soon on charges of "spreading corruption on earth."
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Don't expect America's woke voices, from @washingtonpost to @nytimes and from @BernieSanders and @AOC (both who Tweeted against capital punishment) to wage a campaign against such flagrant Iranian barbarity.
Woke America and hypocrite Europe will pick on some Saudi guy thrown for a while in the Ritz, or a Palestinian whose olive tree was burnt by an Israeli, and paint America as the most unethical country on earth for befriending Saudi and Israel. #Iran, though, we should befriend.
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Nov 10, 2020
THREAD - Anyone who's read Hanna Arendt will see Trump as a clear case of a tyrant-in-the-making. The rise of rogue rulers is incumbent on suspension of reason, which Trump has skillfully done by painting anything that disagrees with him as fake /1
Trump then replaced reality with his own fake alternative narrative. He then imagines himself as the victim of a conspiracy. A victim usually absolves him/herself from the rules, because others have presumably unfairly violated these rules. Whataboutism becomes a rule. /2
Tyrant then convinces cult that his victory is their victory, whereas in reality, he accumulates power and they lose it. I don't think Trump is devilishly smart to understand what he is doing, but his instinct is one of mobster chiefs where life is "kill or get killed." /3
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