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25 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
.@British_Airways I understand u will be reducing TLV service after Israel said it would ban Israelis from travelling to UK due to Covid- I think unjustified as Covid cases are now dropping in UK. I hope u make representations to Isr reconsider this ban @UKinJerusalem @ukinisrael
Since the Israeli government announced plan to ban Israelis from entering the U.K. due to Covid, Covid in the Uk dropped by 40% week on week. Almost everyone in Britain is vaccinated. Important for @British_Airways and UK authorities to explain to Israeli counterparts
And for the record, I am tweeting this onboard a @British_Airways flight from Tel Aviv to London. Many passengers and BA staff very worried about impact of Israeli government decision to add UK to red list. Cc @UKinJerusalem @ukinisrael
That level of worried - and its not even 9 am where I am (first time this happens since England played at the World Cup in Korea…)

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25 Jul
Major development: Tunisian president sacks government, gives himself executive power, parliament calls it coup…total political chaos. Tunisia tonight is undergoing its most serious test since the Arab spring…it may turn very ugly and descend into civil war like Algeria in 90s
What is happening in Tunisia is - again, an Arab first. It’s effectively a struggle between staunch islamism vs staunch secularism. Only comparison is Algeria in the 1990s, but with wider Euro-Med-Arab implications here
Unlike Algeria, there hasn’t been widespread Islamist militancy in Tunisia, except ISIS. Will Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Ennahda now invoke MB’s ideological links to militant Islamists in Tunisia? That is the big question and big test for MB…stakes couldn’t be higher
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8 Mar
Here’s a prediction on France vs Turkey. The next battle ground will be Lebanon. Turkey is already on the ground in Lebanon but nowhere as much as Iran and France. Increasing unrest in Lebanon today increases likelihood of Turkey going into Lebanon. Before end of 2021.
Turkey will do all it can to effectively recolonise northern Lebanon. What is happening in Lebanon now creates this opening for Turkey.
This is important because so far, Sunni support for Lebanon has mainly been from the Gulf. Turkey wants to change this, and create a Sunni Islamist enclave in the north. This would greatly destabilise the Levant, just like Turkey’s intervention in Syria did.
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6 Mar
Wonderful to see the Pope meet Shia leaders in Iraq today and Sunni leaders in Egypt last year. What is missing though are Sunni Shia meetings: when will there be a summit between Sistani and Al Azhar’s imam? This Sunni Shia infighting is the root of so much global terrorism
The 2 Muslim Sunni countries who can be key to a much needed Sunni Shia reconciliation are Egypt and Jordan. Egypt for ritualistic purposes (Egyptians revere the Muslim saints so important to Shiasm and Jordan because of its Hashemite royal family revered by Shia as well)
Iraq - now slowly emerging from decades of Sunni Shia civil war, will also be key. This is why the Pope’s visit today to Iraq is so important. The Sunni Shia split was a contributing factor to the rise of both ISIS and Hashd.
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6 Mar
A sign to the Catholics and Shia that masks are no longer needed?
Not only no masks, but no social distancing whatsoever, they’ve just arrived from overseas and meeting indoors. The Pope in Iraq today Image
The @Pontifex has hundreds of millions of followers around the world including Brazil where tens of thousands are getting infected by coronavirus every day. Baffling to see him appear maskless meeting people indoors in Iraq. Explanation needed #PopeInIraq
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9 Jan
In 2019, we successfully campaigned to have Google remove a Muslim Brotherhood “Euro fatwa app”, for anti Semitism and other incitement including giving a “fatwa” allowing Muslims in the British army to disobey orders, etc. Here is the story thetimes.co.uk/article/muslim…
A few months later, Google reinstated the app after the MB-affiliated developed changed the introduction. Things like disobeying army orders remained. It then become in the top 100 downloads in Europe thenationalnews.com/world/europe/r…
British, French, German and Irish officials condemned the app. “The app is a building block in the process of radicalisation," Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution, the country's domestic intelligence agency, said”. But app is still widely available
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8 Jan
77 k people died of smoking in the U.K. in the same period 65 k people died of Covid. I didn’t see any campaigns to ban smoking, did you? #COVID19
For humans, death by Covid vs death by smoking is the time scale (2 weeks vs 20 years), although smoking will almost certainly kill you whereas Covid almost certainly won’t....it’s all about time and hospital capacity. Any other difference?
Lockdowns aren’t meant to save life- they are meant to save the healthcare system - NHS or whatever. It’s all about optics.
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