Just what we need at this surreal day! #Nasrallah rushes to deny #Netanyahu’s claim that Netanyahu shows that Hezbollah has an arms depot adjacent to gas canisters in the Jonah. He invites journalists to visit the place! #Lebanon
#Nasrallah is clearly feeling the pressure. He is fully aware that his popularity has plummeted after #BeirutBlast
The way #Nasrallah talks as if he is the cute lamb of #Lebanon is suffocating!
#Nasrallah sarcastically describes a *club* of ex-PMs who took over the task of forming Lebanese’s gov’t. And Saad Hariri was mediating between them and Hezbollah.
Interesting how #Nasrallah is trying to place the blame on his political opponents, without criticising @EmmanuelMacron and the French initiative. #Lebanon
Thus far, I chocked 3 times watching #Nasrallah speech.
The third one when he said “he fears for #Lebanon”
Oh cutie...
#Nasrallah openly admit that he vetoed the suggested gov’t because he put clear redlines, mainly
no #IMF loan
Oh boy, #Nasrallah talks about democracy, respect for majority, and deliberation between political groups.
This the dude who sided by Syria’s Assad. #Epic
Now the big joke... #Nasrallah asserts he doesn’t terrorise anyone in Lebanon, and everyone is free to express freely his own views, “unlike other Arab countries”!
It is as if Samir Qassir, Gibran Tueni, and a loooooong list of victims murdered in #Lebanon
#Nasrallah reserved the last part of his speech to bash #Bahrain for normalising relations with #Israel.
Ha!
#Nasrallah wants French baguette stuffed with Iranian dolma!
Egypt has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation on December 2013, after the bombing of police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Mansoura killing 16 people 2/
But terror didn't stop after the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood. Asplinter group called Has emerged in Egypt since 2015/2016 that targeted Egyptian security forces, judges, and government officials. They committed multiple terror attacks from 2016- 2019) 3/
The short answer is no. I will explain in this thread 🧵👇
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Yesterday, many shared videos of alleged protests in Egypt.
Most who shared those videos, judging by their profiles, are pro-Brotherhood, Syrians, and others anti-Egyptian president Sisi.
But those videos were not recent, which raises suspicion that they are part of psychological warfare operation as Babak suggested 👇
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Those who shared those videos didn’t even bother to check that most of them were recorded in Summer, judging with what those protestors were wearing 🤷🏻♀️
Today, after calls for protests, many Syrians in Damascus and Homs have marched in the streets calling for civic and secular streets, amidst little coverage by nearly all legacy media
@BBC
@CNN
@SkyNews
They are rightly concerned about the future of their country amidst very legitimate concerns.
I will try to explain why?
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First, women rights
A spokesman of the new [Islamist] administration claimed that the nature of women doesn’t make them fit for all jobs”
Syrian Islamists seem to ignore the basic concept of gender equality, despite reassurance to Western officials
They clearly forgot the number of Syrian women who revolted against Assad and paid hefty prices.
@vonderleyen
@Keir_Starmer
@EmmanuelMacron
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Second, Christian minorities.
Although the new authorities in Syria allowed Christians to openly celebrate Christmas, with plenty of coverage on social media, there are disturbing reports of violence against Christians, especially the Greek ones.
Here is one example
👇👇.
One can call it “an individual act of violence” except there are other gruesome incidents, like beheading of one Christian, and shooting of his wife.
Fact:
Hundred of thousands of Arabs and Muslims have been killed in
🔺Syria
🔺Sudan
🔺Yemen
But they didn’t trigger 1/10 of the reactions we are witnessing now in the war of #Gaza.
Why?
Because, in Gaza, they enemy is non-Arab and non-Muslim.
Let’s stop kidding ourself and have the courage to admit that.
For Islamists, the crime of Israel is not just the “occupation of Palestine”, but the disruption of their grand dream of the resurrection of the Islamic Caliphate.
For Arab nationalists, the crime of Israel is not the “occupation of Palestine”, but the disruption of their dream of one Arab grand nation from the Arabian -Gulf to the Atlantic ocean
I am accused of “justifying occupation”, which is a big fat lie.
My guilt is remembering the long history of bad choices & wasted opportunities.
Remember when hijacking airplanes, killing athletes were the Palestinian answer to Israeli occupation?
Remember when suicide attacks were marketed as the answer to the occupation?
Remember when firing rockets was the innovation of the resistance?
None of the above liberated Palestine.
Why, and how bloody pogrom and kidnapping women and children will?
#Hamas
#Gaza
What is the best of the best outcome for the Palestinians from this current bloody mess?
A ceasefire+ few charity donation+ pledges to rebuilt their homes, which will take months, so they will spend winter in the cold.
How on earth can any one describe that as “a victory”?
#طوفان_الاقصي
At the end of the current confrontation, Hamas leaders will tour Doha and Istanbul, singing the songs of victory, while the ordinary people of Gaza will be homeless and jobless.
But hey, highlighting that apparently makes me a traitor 🤷🏻♀️