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Rebel. Neuroscientist. Philosopher. “The only thing in this world that can make us stop the fighting is a ceasefire in Gaza.” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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Mar 16 11 tweets 3 min read
There is a coordinated and ongoing attempt, on behalf of Israel, by its Arab allies in the Gulf, to reintroduce the divisions that existed before Oct. 7 between Hamas and Fatah, and between Hamas and allies in the Resistance. 1/ Israel conducted a genocide in Gaza and these potentates are suddenly behaving as if nothing happened, resorting to their old tricks. Why? 2/
Feb 13 43 tweets 7 min read
I missed Nasrallah's speech today but I promise a thread on this today and tomorrow. It was broadcast live on PressTV X account.
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… Nasrallah yesterday spoke on the combined occasions of the day of the wounded, the day of the prisoners, and the birthday of Imam Hussein birthday.  Also, the day of the birth of Imam Hussein has been chosen as the day of the guardians of the Islamic revolution in Iran. 1/
Feb 8 71 tweets 11 min read
I am watching the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin.

Q: why did you invade Ukraine, is it because the US and NATO might initiate (quoting Putin) 'a surprise attack on our country?'
Putin starts an answer that goes back to the foundation of Russia, the year 862. 1/ Putin: In 882, The Scandinavian dynasty who founded Novgorod began to develop the Russian state with two centres, Novgorod and kiev. 2/
Jan 16 14 tweets 3 min read
Prof. Mearsheimer has previously written on South Africa's application against Israel at the ICJ:

Here he discusses Israel's arguments in response to South Africa at the ICJ with @Judgenap
mearsheimer.substack.com/p/genocide-in-…
Mearsheimer: all speakers on behalf of Israel at the ICJ tried to shift the focus from the genocide accusation to Oct. 7. This isn't going to trick the judges but it was done for propaganda purposes.
Jan 16 4 tweets 1 min read
"When German politicians talk about Israel, they are really talking about themselves." (May 2020)
mondediplo.com/2020/05germany… "German-Israeli relations are rich in irony...the publications of the Springer house, which celebrated Israel's 1967 victory as a Blitzsieg, complimented Israeli gen. Moshe Dayan by comparing him to the Wehrmacht general Erwin Rommel, and denigrated the conquered Arab armies"
Dec 22, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Look at this map of the Red sea, Eilat port/Israel at the top, Yemen in the bottom. Eilat port became important for Israel for its crude oil imports after Israel stopped these imports through the main port, Ashkelon, early Oct because it is close to Gaza. 1/ Image The Red sea blockade is not the only trouble for Israel's oil imports. Israel has Ashkelon, Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat ports as terminals for its imports. All of them are vulnerable to rocket fire, either from Gaza or from Yemen. 2/
Dec 6, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Israel did not intend to fight Hamas in Gaza, it intended to make a lesson from Gaza.
Israel will leave Gaza completely destroyed and devoid of any means of life for Palestinian civilians but with an intact guerilla. 1/ In fact Israel's military campaign in Gaza this time is different from others only in intensity. Israel will leave nothing standing this time in Gaza no matter how many civilians will die in the process. 2/
Nov 18, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Translated by Google from Hebrew:
Assessment of the security establishment: Hamas did not know in advance about the Nova festival. Hamas planned to reach Kibbutz Reim and other kibbutzim, and found out about the party in real time. 1/ A military Israeli helicopter that fired at terrorists also hit revelers on Oct 7. 2/
Nov 11, 2023 13 tweets 2 min read
Nasrallah's speech has started. Nasrallah: This day, the 11th of Nov, is the day of the martyrs, of all our martyrs (Hezbollah), from 1982 until today. Today we have buried many beloved martyrs.
Nov 3, 2023 52 tweets 7 min read
I am on Press TV live where Nasrallah's speech will be broadcast with translation. If I have problems with the transmission, I will go to @AlMayadeenNews live and I will translate. Coming soon: Nasrallah's speech where he is expected to announce Shia mobilization against Israel The scene from Beirut. Image
Oct 29, 2023 15 tweets 4 min read
I don't like the idea popularized mostly in France by @v_lemire and most recently by Dominique de Villepin that Hamas set a trap of extreme violence for Israel and the West, even if there is some truth to it but not in the sense they intended, and I will explain why. 1/ There is a trap of violence but Hamas is not the only party responsible, Israel is responsible too. When you exercise daily violence on Palestinians, as Israel has done since 1948, the violence tends to increase with each cycle because it has history. 2/
Sep 22, 2023 27 tweets 7 min read
Whose interests is Nikol Pashinyan serving?
A fine analysis by @BhadraPunchline on the Armenia-Azerbaijan situation in its geopolitical context.
indianpunchline.com/russia-scrambl…
Jul 6, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
These track 2 talks might be meant to test the ground for a negotiated solution in Ukraine, which won't come easily and quickly, but they are above all a signal to Zelensky, from the Bidens, to deliver or bow down. 1/
nbcnews.com/news/world/for… My humble opinion is that Biden wants to chose the next president of Ukraine before the US elections. Someone whom Biden can trust on the Bidens' family affairs in Ukraine, in a heated electoral contest in 2014. 2/
May 31, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
President Putin: "Not only were we deceived and told that there would be no NATO expansion to the east, but then, they also reached Ukraine."
en.kremlin.ru/events/preside… Putin: "In 2014, as you know, they carried out a coup d’état and simply began to destroy everyone who, one way or another, wanted to build normal relations with Russia.
They also unleashed a war and military operations in Donbass. Then they deceived everyone to keep their guard… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
May 30, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Gordon Hahn: "As I have written in my book Russian Tselostnost’ and in articles on related issues here, Russian thinkers prefer wholeness, unity, solidarity, communalism, and cooperation to what they view as Western division, partisanship, individualism, and competition."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… "Fratricidal wars are the most brutal wars, and the NATO-Russian Ukraine war is no exception. Atrocities committed by both armies and each side’s trumpeting of the other’s crimes eventually will create a powerful dynamic of mutual antagonism and hate."
May 30, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
The war that NATO provoked in the heart of the European continent in Yougoslavia has never ended. It is a frozen conflict. NATO client Kosovo has been following the Ukraine playbook, provoking ethnic Serbs repeatedly, and now wants to unfreeze the conflict.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… NATO promotes membership in exchange of added 'security', but what it really does is provoking conflict for added security. This is the NATO business model. But I believe NATO will be terminated by its own clients because not all businesses can expand indefinitely, some end up… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 16, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The Kiev regime's suppression of internal political opinions that call for compromise, pragmatism and peace, is deep, to the point that they have created the conditions that render any future compromise to end the war nearly impossible.
archive.is/IxmaK#selectio… The only thing that will bring an end to the Ukraine war is a change of regime in Kiev because a Russian total defeat in Ukraine back to the pre-2014 border is impossible.
Apr 15, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
US trained soldiers in African countries have been responsible for a recent spate in military coups in their countries, sometimes repeatedly, three times in Mali and three times in Burkina Faso.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit… All military coup leaders in Africa have been trained by the US. They harbour ambitions because very often they are not well paid and well equipped, so they strive to topple the leadership and make gains for themselves.
Apr 14, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
"Macron, who was accompanied to China by dozens of French business leaders, was joined for part of his three-day visit by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in a gesture of common European purpose towards Beijing."
ft.com/content/2ed66f… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… "Yet any sense of unity was undercut by arrangements that flattered the French leader with a banquet, military parade and other trappings of a state visit, while von der Leyen was excluded from several of the lavish events"
Mar 17, 2023 20 tweets 6 min read
This, on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq war. The ICC is always looking for ways to lose whatever credibility it might still have.
theguardian.com/world/2023/mar… Putin waged this war in part to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine from the persecutions of the Kiev regime, he wasn't going to leave these children.
Mar 4, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
The Russian embassy in the UK is tweeting on the Skripals' 'poisoning', which happened five years ago, reminding us that it is via this event that the campaign to stigmatize Russia in the eyes of the world started in earnest. The UK gov prefers to remove from the people's… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Stumbled upon this on @timtron2020's timeline. It is from 2020, but it is timely. The efforts to discredit Russia in the West that started around Trump's election have multiple aspects, not the least poisoning stories, none of which withstands scrutiny.
ahtribune.com/world/europe/r…