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Why did Hitler have such a deep hatred for the Jews in particular? Here's something I read a while ago:
So I read that Hitler hated the multiculturalism of the Austro-Hungarian empire where he was born, and identified Jews in particular with multiculturalism, because they couldn't be slotted within the ideal ethno-state world that he preferred and envisioned.
Can someone comment on this theory?
Hello everyone. This is an update on my situation (and my team). It's also sorta an appeal for help or advice.
When you're facing the kind of threats I'm facing, it's not like someone knocks on your door and gives you bad news then walks away. It's an *entire* lifestyle change. For *everyone* around you. The way you do just about everything changes.
It's rather rare that words fail me, but right now words do fail me when it comes to expressing just how much of a mess it's been (in both the private and work realms). It was sorta kinda under control for most of May. But now it's approaching breakdown levels.
كل أصحاب المعالي تحت نعالي
قيل لي: عيب! فكررت مقالي
ثم تنبهت إلى سوء مقالي
ققدمت اعتذارا... لنعالي.
قيل لي: عيب! فكررت مقالي
ثم تنبهت إلى سوء مقالي
ققدمت اعتذارا... لنعالي.
كذلك قالها الشاعر أحمد مطر. لكن يمكن أيضا أن نقولها كما قالها مظفر النواب:
تفوووو على أول من فيها
إلى آخر من فيها
من الملوك والشيوخ والخدم
تفوووو على أول من فيها
إلى آخر من فيها
من الملوك والشيوخ والخدم
ويمكن أن نوصل الفكرة أيضا - بشكل مؤدب - كما قالها محمد مهدي الجواهري:
أهينوا لئامكمُ، تكرموا
أهينوا لئامكمُ، تكرموا
Translation:
Screw the UN
Screw countries neutral about Yemen
Screw the Palestinian cause
Screw Hamas
Screw Qatar and those who sympathize with it
Screw Iran and Turkey and their dogs
Screw everyone who hates Saudi
Screw all parties in the Arab and Muslim world
Our country first
Screw the UN
Screw countries neutral about Yemen
Screw the Palestinian cause
Screw Hamas
Screw Qatar and those who sympathize with it
Screw Iran and Turkey and their dogs
Screw everyone who hates Saudi
Screw all parties in the Arab and Muslim world
Our country first
The Saudi regime has made enemies across the world, and especially among the people of their own region. It's unable to do anything about this since its toolkit is only a bonesaw and loads of cash. All the coercion and bribes in the world won't buy you real friends.
And so their frustration shows with this highly promoted tweet from one of their centrally-controlled Twitter propaganda accounts: Screw everyone. Because when you can't reach out to anyone, you just yell "screw you all" into the void. It's pretty much an admission of failure.
قرار سليم يؤكد مرة أخرى أن الثورة السودانية وراءها عقلية استراتيجية ناضجة.
اللاعنفية ليست مظاهرات فقط، اللاعنفية هي استراتيجية متكاملة تهدف لشل المستبد وتقويض أركان قوته. الترسانة اللاعنفية فيها مئات الأسلحة، لكل سلاح نقاط قوة وضعف. الإضراب سلاح فعال لكن مكلف ومجهد، ويحتاج إلى تنظيم عالي، وتكلفه الفشل فيه عالية، لذلك يجب أن يستخدم بدراسة محكمة.
على فكرة شعبيا نسميها "سلمية" لكن التسمية الصحيحة هي اللاعنفية، لماذا؟ لأن اللاعنفية ليست سلام، هي حرب لا هوادة فيها على المستبد وأعوانه، هي حرب فيها معارك وتخطيط وتنفيذ ودعم لوجستي وتنسيق إعلامي ودعم دبلوماسي وشهداء وجرحى ودماء ونضال، هي حرب لكنها حرب سلاحنا فيها لاعنفي.
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Just in case you can't read Arabic, the tweet says: "The negroes of Sudan want to have some dignity, when in fact they are slaves... our slaves". Report the tweet. This guy shouldn't have an account.
This tweet too. Same drill. It's even worse then the first one.
My @nytimes op-ed is about how the Saudi-UAE axis of autocracy is ruining Sudan's transition to democracy. Please read, comment, and share: nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opi…
#العصيان_المدني_الشامل
#العصيان_المدني_الشامل
@nytimes The governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have since 2011 dedicated their significant financial resources - and their relationship with the West - to stop democracy at any price, in fear it'll reach their own doorstep.
@nytimes Eight years later, here's their record:
- Crushed the Bahraini uprising
- Bankrolled the return to military dictatorship in Egypt
- Mismanaged Yemen's transition, then launched a devastating war
- Meddled ineffectively in Syria
- Armed a rogue general in Libya
- And now, Sudan.
- Crushed the Bahraini uprising
- Bankrolled the return to military dictatorship in Egypt
- Mismanaged Yemen's transition, then launched a devastating war
- Meddled ineffectively in Syria
- Armed a rogue general in Libya
- And now, Sudan.
أسباب تفاؤلي حيال أحداث السودان، برغم الألم، وباختصار شديد:
أولا لم تسبق المذبحة حالة استقطاب شعبي في السودان، أو تلميع للعسكر كما حدث في مصر عام ٢٠١٣. العسكر استعدوا الشعب كله ولم يعادوا شريحة معينة، وقاموا بذلك في رمضان وفي العيد، جاؤوا بشذاذ الآفاق لاغتصاب نساء الخرطوم. لا مقارنة بين هذه الأحداث وبين رابعة.
ثانيا لا يوجد زخم اقليمي أو عالمي وراء عرّابي الثورات المضادة، بل كل العالم تقريبا يرى أفعالهم، كما أن وراءهم سلسلة طويلة من الفشل. مفضوحون وخائبون، ومهزومون إن شاء الله.
Proud to present this very special episode of the @ArabTyrantMan'ual podcast, the first one with a round-table format with seven (yes, seven) activists. Please listen, subscribe, and share:
soundcloud.com/arabtyrantmanu…
soundcloud.com/arabtyrantmanu…
@ArabTyrantMan It was an honest, self-critical discussion about the Arab Spring and its aftermath that was also surprisingly uplifting and hopeful. The voices you hear in this episode (in addition to my own) are from Egypt, Sudan, and Libya.
@ArabTyrantMan Featured: Egyptian activists Wael @Ghonim and @ARahman_Mansour; Sudanese activists @khalidalbaih and @SudaneseThinker; and Libyan activists @KholoudSasi and @gatnash.
It's June 8th. Five years ago today, I finally left Kuala Lumpur airport after being stranded there for a month following my expulsion from my former country, the UAE.
The UAE was my home from 1977 (the year of my birth) to 2014, when a "higher order" was issued to expel me. As a stateless Palestinian, I had nowhere to be expelled to, so I was put in jail instead. I was later expelled to Malaysia, where, yes, I lived in the airport for a month.
I've come a long way since 2014. But not my family. My father, once a brilliant cardiologist, lost his mind in the midst of the events and what followed them. We thought he had a neurological disorder, but brain scans repeatedly came back normal. It's psychological.
Guys, we have two podcasts (approx 30 mins each) about strategic nonviolence on the @ArabTyrantMan'ual. If anyone can help with Arabic translation please let us know here or by DM.
@ArabTyrantMan أعزائي لدينا حلقتين بودكاست حول سلاح اللاعنفية كسلاح ستراتيجي، كل منهما حوالي نصف ساعة، نحتاج مساعدة لترجمة المحتوى إلى العربية. من يجد لديه القدرة يرجى مراسلتنا هنا أو على الخاص.
Guys, @3ozaz is taking the lead on this. Please contact us or contact her if you can help. We first need a transcription - so if you think you can help transcribe (English language) please reach out.
Arab tyrants are the world's worst Islamophobes. They dehumanize an entire culture in order to justify denying us political agency, robbing us blind, and ruling us with an iron fist. We will not see a day of dignity or peace until we uproot every last one of them.
What drives the hysteria of Arab tyrants today (and every day since 2011) isn't their strength but their fear. These are paranoid kleptocrats who know their regimes are living on borrowed time and must stop history in order to continue to rule us.
Remember that nobody saw 2011 coming, not the tyrants and not even the people. Remember that the regimes of tyrants look formidable until the last 10 minutes. For more, here's a podcast: soundcloud.com/arabtyrantmanu…
I call upon Twitter's @Policy team to immediately take corrective action by suspending this account for threatening Twitter users for the mere crime of following other users. Please report the tweet and the account.
Must have been most awkward for Trump since he thinks there are "very fine people on both sides"
But seriously, wider point - the idea that evil is something external to us, that it's something that's separate, that it's an "other" - that idea is dangerous, and enables so much evil.
Tribalism, nationalism, fascism, tyranny, war, revenge - these all exist and have shaped human history because they're deeply human --
يا كمية خيانة النظام السعودي الحالي للأمة ولكل معاني وقيم الإسلام والإنسانية. يا كمية حقد محمد بن سلمان وأزلامه على الحرية والديمقراطية والحقوق والربيع. لن ننسى ولن نغفر، لا للطغاة ولا لأنعالهم.
ربيعنا سيزهر، عاجلا او آجلا، رغما عن انوفكم. سنحيا كراما احرارا في بلادنا الواسعة وفي وطننا الأكبر، رغما عن انوفكم.
هو مشوار ٤٠ عام. ما زلنا في أول الطريق.
Heads up - my interview with @BBCHARDtalk will be aired today. It's already out on BBC radio - looking forward for the video version.
My @BBCHARDtalk interview is here (audio). Video should also be coming soon. How did I do? Please watch, comment, and share. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
Out of all the questions, it's the very last one that tripped me up the most. I didn't see that one coming.
Last week they banned Aljazeera from the country. Then just last night they used brutal force to crush protester sit-in camps across Sudan. The protesters were unarmed, and committed to nonviolence. This happened in full view of the entire world. Nobody raised a finger.
You want to know why your bloody "Western values" are under threat? Because you're so fucking hypocritical about where and who you apply it to. If you weren't such huge fucking hypocrites, your values wouldn't be under threat.
There's half a billion human souls living in the MENA. We will not live under the boots of tyrants forever. We will never forget our friends, and will never forget our enemies. And we'll never forget the faces of those who stood by the sidelines as we were being crushed.
The Bahraini regime is effectively declaring war on social media platforms by literally criminalizing the following of certain accounts, and threatening residents with prosecution if they do. How will @Twitter react?
Please retweet. Twitter absolutely needs to respond.
Twitter should allow at-risk users to hide their follow/following lists. It's a matter of immediate safety if they're going to be arrested and charged based on who they follow or who's following them.
Every journalist, analyst, politician, and awakened citizen in the world needs to keep their eyes on Sudan. If its military council decides to commit a massacre in order to disperse a nonviolent sit-in, do not pretend you didn't know.
Sudan's current military leadership is backed by the regimes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the very regimes who backed Egypt's Sisi, Libya's Haftar, and are committing war crimes in Yemen. If a massacre is committed in Sudan, you know who gave the green light.
The political agency of over 400 million citizens of Arab countries is hostage to the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who either control our destiny or seriously threaten it. This situation is not sustainable and cannot continue. The backlash will come and it won't be pretty.
Prof Madawi Al Rasheed warns that MBS may be preparing to execute major Saudi figures that he perceives as opponents. MBS is not done spilling blood - in fact, now that nobody believes his "reformist" shtick, he's getting comfortable with what he really is - a bloodthirsty tyrant
Whatever collection of tragedies the Middle East has seen in its modern history - MBS is going to take all of that and multiply it by a hundred. MBS's actions are making the Middle East a more violent, brutal, unstable, and volatile place.
Mark my words: The region will not see a day of peace so long MBS is in power in Saudi Arabia.
بالأمس كتبت بضعة تغريدات ساخرة بغرض اختبار ردة فعل راعي الذباب السعودي، والذي ابتلع الطعم بسهولة اكبر مما كنت أتوقع. مئات الردود بعد ذلك وردة فعل أكدت لي عدة أمور كنت وفريقي أشك بها منذ أشهر. مأساة راعي الذباب السعودي أنه يظن انه عبقري، بينما هو احمق ومتهور وغير منظبط.
يبدو أن اللعبة ستكون ممتعة فعلاً.
نحن لا نواجه النار بالنار، وإن وجدنا أنفسنا في صراع مع ملاكم فسنفرض عليه أن تكون المواجهة على طاولة شطرنج وليس على حلبة. فكيف بنا ونحن نواجه دب داشر متهور غير منظبط؟ ستكون المباراة ممتعة حقاً.
There is *full* Gulf buy-in for the so-called "Deal of the Century", and it emanates not from Saudi-occupied Bahrain but from the Saudi Arabian royal court itself. The "Deal of the Century" should be called the Kushner-MBS Peace Plan.
Mark my words: This is not a peace plan that is based upon some lofty human values - it's not a deal based upon justice, dignity, legitimacy, or human rights. It's a deal that is based upon the dehumanization and further crushing of the Palestinians.
And here's something journalists should be aware of: The gutting of the Saudi public sphere had a clear direction towards this deal. Many (if not most) of the Saudi intellectuals arrested between 2017 and last month were active voices in the pro-Palestine movement.
Last week, I was interviewed by @mperelman from @FRANCE24. Full interview on the link (12 minutes), please watch & share: france24.com/en/20190516-in…
Posting more short videos from my interview with @mperelman for France24; full interview on this link: france24.com/en/20190516-in…
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I told @mperelman that when the Norwegian intelligence officers showed up at my door, I wasn't surprised. The first thing I said was, "I've been expecting you".
THREAD: Saudi government controlled Twitter accounts have been mobbing me for days. These are not bots, they're human-controlled. One of the lines is "nobody knows you", "you're nothing". Here's a timeline of them using this line against me going back to 2017:
Note - each of these is just one sample of waves of Twitter attacks (otherwise, the thread won't end). Make no mistake, this isn't organic traffic, these are centrally controlled, government operated accounts.
"You're nothing, you're unknown" - December 2017
