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"Its odd to think that a major town in the Northern Metn like Brummana had a Druze plurality as recently as the early 20th century (Beit Mery too I believe). Similarly its equally odd to think that the Chouf had perhaps more Christians than Druzes until the 1980s"
X Link 2020-11-18T22:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"From Jabal el Druze to Jazeeret el Druze 😭 But its close to Argentina so we can get our hands on an endless supply of cheap mat 👌"
X Link 2020-12-04T11:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"No one: Not even a soul: 21st century Druze:"
X Link 2020-12-25T21:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"A scanned version of my family tree as drawn by a sheikh from the family in [----]. The Aboulhosn family is primarily based in the Upper Metn village of Btekhnay and nearby villages. Taken from the Instagram page Stories of the Druze by Nour Flayhan"
X Link 2021-05-04T21:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"There's something so charming and appealing about the Maghreb with its beautiful cities landscapes souks and mosques. I hope I get to visit one day The pictures are of (in order): Marrakech - Kabylia - Fes - Kairaouan"
X Link 2022-08-28T13:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ektrit @Garen_Gregorian @Gregoresate [--]. Lausanne and the population transfers arent common knowledge nor do they have any real significance in the Arab region. Unlike say Sykes-Picot or the Crusades. [--]. No Muslims fled How do you explain the millions of Syrian & Iraqi Muslim refugees in neighboring countries"
X Link 2023-04-23T17:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ektrit @Garen_Gregorian @Gregoresate [--]. No there was no battle cry to cleanse Syrias Christians for [---] yrs. They were quite well-situated. One of their own (Fares al-Khoury) was once a powerful national figure. A majority Muslim city (Aleppo) took in 10000s of Armenian refugees who had lived there unmolested"
X Link 2023-04-23T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Sufism also enjoyed institutional support in the Ottoman court (Janissaries were typically Sufi) and clearly remained relevant into the modern era given the Sufi background of many anti-colonial leaders (Emir Abdelkader Omar al-Mukhtar Al-Mahdi etc.) What happened"
X Link 2023-07-08T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Interestingly this also shows how the religious life of the peasantry in the Levant was similar across communities. All had shrines in honor of holy men and prophets that people would visit for prayer requests. Druze shrines today look very similar to the Muslim ones above"
X Link 2023-07-08T18:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Quo vadis Druze man"
X Link 2023-08-03T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@booakeel @mrrobotofrivia2 Says the follower of a Twelver Shia heresy invented by a lunatic mass-murdering cleric a few decades ago. Ill pass thanks"
X Link 2023-08-09T21:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@TotusNBEB The Jumblatts were pro-French and stayed neutral during the Great Syrian Revolt. I think they may do the same if this happens (with perhaps some behind the scenes support for the Syrian Druze)"
X Link 2023-08-25T20:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"One key attribute sets them apart from their neighbors: it is the stability brought about by the nearly 400-year-old Alaouite dynasty. I hope the Moroccan people realize how lucky they are and not fall for the false hope of democracy la Egypt Iraq Libya et al"
X Link 2023-09-03T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"After seeing posts like this Im starting to feel more torn about the protests in Suwayda. On the one hand Im happy that the Syrian Druze who were content to sit on the sidelines since [----] are taking a stand against the cruel Syrian regime and refusing to be used as pawns-"
X Link 2023-09-05T11:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@KtirLebnene Lol ok Ill let you figure that one out with your fellow Christians. I dont care for particular individuals but yes as I come from a community that makes up at most 5% of the country my political North Star is Druze survival & autonomy esp with mounting threats everywhere"
X Link 2023-09-08T18:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Even more impressive is their staying power. The royal families of Jordan & Morocco claim to be descendants of Quraysh as does Irans current Supreme Leader and his predecessor. (More outlandishly the House of Windsor is alleged to have partial Qurayshi ancestry too)"
X Link 2023-09-15T23:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Omarnksa @HerrCorleone Little is know about them prior to them taking power in the 17th century. They simply claim to be descended from the Prophet and to have come from Arabia to Morocco in the 12th century or so"
X Link 2023-09-16T00:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd I agree thats there much more material in English but I had a somewhat different experience. It was easy to find Disney movies & the like dubbed in Egyptian Arabic in the Gulf and my parents would often buy those for us so yeaDisney characters speak Masri in my head 😂"
X Link 2023-09-18T00:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd But I agree that whatever was in fusha was a bit of a turn off. I could never enjoy the Japanese cartoons on Spacetoon bc they were dubbed in fusha and difficult to understand. That said I hope the Egyptian movie-dubbing industry is still going strong Many fond memories lol"
X Link 2023-09-18T01:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@merattor @hahussain Minorities have suffered under more extreme regimes (Iran Pakistan) or due to state failure / war (Iraq Syria). Thats not a fair reflection of Muslim-minority dynamics under normal circumstances today"
X Link 2023-09-18T17:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Darius1296 @Omar_ghxd @TalAbdulrazaq @nntaleb Theyre culturally more similar to Sunnis in western Iraq (often a tribal Arab background rather than a cosmopolitan urbanite one). The neighboring communities are usually not very similar (Kurds Turkmen Assyrians) so I dont think they share the same bonds as Levantines do"
X Link 2023-09-19T20:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Lmao at people who find a way to turn a situation on its head to make the story about them and how theyre the victim 😭 I mean its Indias Hindu nationalist govt that is going on a killing spree targeting Sikh activists in Canada"
X Link 2023-09-21T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"And yet no one cares. They never did. The world ignored their plight in [----]. France later abandoned the survivors in Cilicia to Turkey in [----]. And once again in [----] Azerbaijans gas is worth more than [------] Armenian lives"
X Link 2023-09-24T20:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 Azerbaijan isnt today but they are one of the more logical alternatives to total reliance on Russia. And if they can link up to Turkey directly that would give them more of a comparative advantage as a source of energy"
X Link 2023-09-24T21:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 Also Azerbaijan is much more geopolitically important and ironically ticks more boxes on cultural similarity esp for the Anglosphere. Its a mostly atheistic state/society is opposed to Iran has good ties Israel and NATO member Turkey & less close to Russia than Armenia"
X Link 2023-09-24T21:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 @Garen_Gregorian I agree on everything except for Russia. I dont think its simply preserving their borders but also going back to Soviet borders as much as possible. Not very different from Turkish aggression in Cyprus or Greek islands or their promotion of the Greater Turkey idea 🤷♂"
X Link 2023-09-26T20:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@cysaeyci @nrken19 When I did a DNA test my haplogroups were geolocated to either side of the Caspian Sea (modern-day Azerbaijan & Turkmenistan respectively). Not an expert on genetics though so idk how unusual this is among Mediterranean peoples in general ()"
X Link 2023-09-30T23:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@michaelmalouf_ Its GDP per capita is [----] USD and much of the population still works in pre-industrial economic sectors so this isnt surprising. The fact they managed to get to this point while still in the very early phases of industrialization is impressive. Give them [--] more yrs"
X Link 2023-10-01T11:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd Yes fair for cities like London & Paris. (Slight correction: I suspect your mental model of the UAE is a bit outdated 😅 There are [--] million residents there now)"
X Link 2023-10-01T11:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd But the alternative would have been worse. Take the Druze for example. Modernization & emigration has basically killed the religion among the vast majority. Most claim to believe in God but live lives totally devoid of any religious practice or commitments"
X Link 2023-10-05T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@SonOfJenin Civilizational / cultural ties solidify alliances and make them semi-permanent. US & Israel are allies bc they belong to the same civilization and half of all Jews live in the US. Egypt and the Gulf states are more so allies of convenience or interest"
X Link 2023-10-09T17:58Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine @hortidorren Abu Ezzeddine just repeated narratives. A good book for its time but not serious historical work like Firros. He goes into great detail about the migration to Hawran from z l Lebanon and (often more forgotten) Palestine with the latter fleeing persecution / mistreatment"
X Link 2023-10-09T22:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd I think so too. I wonder if they even expected to get that far or planned for all the gruesome details. Lebanon got hell in [----] for [--] captured soldiers"
X Link 2023-10-10T19:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Sadly Bruno is one of the few Western voices with a platform who have been talking about how dangerous this latest Gaza war is shaping up to be"
X Link 2023-10-10T22:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Israel has mobilized more than [------] reservists on top of its standing army of nearly [------] soldiers. Half a million soldiers for a tiny strip of [--] million people And Netanyahu is proudly tweeting videos like this daily as if these are Call of Duty sessions"
X Link 2023-10-10T22:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine Jeez I hope not. Thats quite morbid but thats what weve seen time and time again. Turkey-Armenians Serbia-Bosniaks Hutus-Tutsis etc"
X Link 2023-10-13T23:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I was watching @PeterZeihans commentary on the situation in Gaza below and it is absolutely terrifying. 👇"
X Link 2023-10-14T19:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"He said that given the difficult circumstances of the camp as he straightforwardly calls it (very dense fully besieged imports its food water & energy) an Israeli ground offensive to destroy Hamas would potentially result in destruction on a scale not seen since WWII"
X Link 2023-10-14T19:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@wael_atallah @Omar_ghxd This was the worst attacks on Jews since the Holocaust. Its different from past events like relatively minor terror attacks or wars between armies. They immediately started carpet bombing [----] bombs in like a week. Come on Anyway Ive nothing else to say on this"
X Link 2023-10-17T22:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@punicist Ashkenazis were quite honest about their movements aims and understood the Arabs reactions to it. They didnt take it personally and probably felt some guilt. Mizrahis faced pogroms & expulsions by Arabs and have a more Middle Eastern temperament. For them its personal"
X Link 2023-10-21T12:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"This video by @SaraYafi is brilliant. I haven't seen anyone else discuss the Al-Ahli Hospital attack so forcefully and eloquently along with the asymmetry of this "war" and the complicity of Western powers in enabling the unfolding human catastrophe"
X Link 2023-10-22T13:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd @crushhbandits @davidboxenhorn Yep. But idk when there are no limits to your brutality youll go as far as to re-engineer the demographics. Theyve pushed millions of Sunnis out of Syria and are importing some Shias (from Iran Afghanistan etc) to settle in their place"
X Link 2023-10-22T19:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc Why did Aoun ally with them for self-serving reasons with the support of a majority of Christians Where were the Christian parties when Hezbollah tried to subjugate West Beirut & the Druze regions"
X Link 2023-10-22T21:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@libchafc What youre saying is fundamentally right but we cant compare pre-2005 (operating under Syrian occupation) with the unique opportunity afterwards. There was a real unity of purpose after that period but it was destroyed through the sheer tenacity of the other side"
X Link 2023-10-22T21:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc I dont think Christians are evil & bad. They were screwed over in the 90s and made a deal with the devil to regain their political influence. On net I think it screwed the country to a point that is unpardonable. That doesnt make them evil. Were all flawed / make mistakes"
X Link 2023-10-22T21:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc FPM collaboration was Future / PSP collaboration after [----] (despite mistakes & some affirmation by the latter)"
X Link 2023-10-22T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc I was very young then so I probably remember that period less. But if on the ground Hezb chose to attack Sunni West Beirut and the Druze regions how could they have been collaborating more than say LF"
X Link 2023-10-22T21:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc I sais the society as a whole initially not you personally (Bc it followed Aoun in its majority)"
X Link 2023-10-22T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Darius1296 @thesidonian @Wunderbaerr After Sox-Day War (1967) things started to get bad in Lebanon. You had the rise of Palestinian militancy and the early breakouts of fights between them and the Lebanese army. Things fell apart to put it shortly. One of those outcomes was antisemitism"
X Link 2023-10-23T09:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Anyway I found those from a quick search but there was far far more that I either missed or deleted It was practically all I tweeted about a few years ago lol"
X Link 2023-10-23T23:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc @WhiskyNCiggs Al Ahli is unconfirmed at best but Im talking about the fact that they asked multiple hospitals to evacuate so that they can target them. They did hit part of the church complex. A US Congressman even lost family members in the bit"
X Link 2023-10-28T15:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc @WhiskyNCiggs This is not a fringe Hamas narrative. Folks like @martyrmade (a neutral yet well-informed American who has made probably the best & most exhaustive podcast series on the conflict) share my opinion on this as do others like Nassim Taleb"
X Link 2023-10-29T01:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@libchafc @WhiskyNCiggs @martyrmade And speaking of narratives Israel has repeatedly lied about events like Shireen Abu Aklehs murder Qana massacre etc. as a form of damage control. Idk why they should be seen as any better than Hamas when it comes to forthrightness"
X Link 2023-10-29T01:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I am one who takes people at their word and this is absolutely horrifying genocidal language animated by what can only be described as pure evil. Given Israels capabilities and the unconditional support of Western powers what she calls for could very much become reality"
X Link 2023-11-01T17:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"More pics from the Balkans trip I think this may be the most beautiful city Ive ever been to 😍 (Allah Rm confirmed) Any guesses"
X Link 2023-11-04T12:32Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements

"@heraldgardner Should Christians abandon the hundreds of prisoners languishing in Assad's prisons Should they give up their fight for autonomy bc they lost and head to Europe As a campaigner against the consequences of a lost war you of all people should understand this"
X Link 2023-11-05T12:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Citing a senior Israeli security official an Israeli newspaper has claimed that [-----] Palestinians have already been killed in Gaza over the last month❗ This is already exceeding the death total of Israels invasion of Lebanon in 1982"
X Link 2023-11-05T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine @Khosn1 You dont need political unity to take a collective and unified stance against your own kin being bombed with impunity If the Arab League is going to serve any purpose at all this should be it"
X Link 2023-11-05T23:52Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@SonOfJenin The economic reasoning no longer makes sense for those of us in the middle class (or above) given that there are a number of developed Muslim states to choose from (Gulf Turkey Malaysia etc.)"
X Link 2023-11-07T01:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Its hard to put into words the mixed feelings of sadness shame and rage that I and many who identify with the people of Gaza feel when we watch videos like this. The Nakba of [----] will forever remain etched in our memories. We will never forget and never forgive"
X Link 2023-11-07T13:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@BCdeMontesquieu Im honestly baffled by the premise of this question. These are people born only 200km south of your border who speak your language eat your food and share many of your traditions"
X Link 2023-11-07T19:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BCdeMontesquieu How could you not identify with them esp when thousands of their children are being incinerated from the sky all in a matter of weeks There must be a deep bitterness & lack of humanity to even ponder such a whataboutism in such circumstances (regardless of who is to blame)"
X Link 2023-11-07T19:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour I haven't followed everything he has said on Ukraine but I watched an old video of his from [----] and it was eerily prescient re: an impending war there (even if one could argue he exhibits an overly an anti-US bias when it comes to the root causes)"
X Link 2023-11-10T11:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"American think tanks are acknowledging what many of us have already started to intuit"
X Link 2023-11-11T23:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Thejoke174 This is the Sultan Ahmet Mosque not Hagia Sophia. You're defending a building and you don't even know what it looks like 😭"
X Link 2023-11-19T14:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @Omar_ghxd Tbh we can just agree to disagree on this topic. Im just glad that the vast majority of the community in Lebanon does not have your minority complex and actively build good ties with all their neighbors"
X Link 2023-11-19T16:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @Omar_ghxd [--]. Yes I have and I know. Almost all of those posts are by Palestinians in the West Bank (or those commenting on the I-P conflict). That is precisely why the Israeli Druze position is so dangerous not only to them but to us all. And tbh can you blame them"
X Link 2023-11-19T16:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @Omar_ghxd [--]. We have virtually always had some autonomy so a fortress state is necessarily something more ambitious (a real state with control over resources its own foreign policy etc.) You don't need to do anything to directly harm neighbors for it to invite conflicts"
X Link 2023-11-19T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @Omar_ghxd Why did Arab regimes and Lebanese Muslims oppose the Christian-dominated political order in pre-war Lebanon It was simply bc the latter was aligned with the West and stood in the way of the former's projects / designs / aspirations"
X Link 2023-11-19T16:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @Omar_ghxd Why is Armenia so hated by Azerbaijan and Turkey and being actively dismembered The principal reason is that it is a Russian and Iranian ally and stands in the way of Turkic dominance of the South Caucasus"
X Link 2023-11-19T16:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"My maternal great-great-grandparents immigrated to Argentina in the early 1900s. My great-grandfather spent much of his youth and adult life there. My grandfather was born in Buenos Aires. Then they eventually all repatriated to Lebanon and no one in the family went back"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"When my family first immigrated Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. After the United States it was the New World country to immigrate to. Here's an excerpt from Vito Tanzi's book "Argentina: An Economic Chronicle" on Argentina's early 20th C prosperity"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Then Juan Pron came to power in the 1940s and began nationalizing key sectors of the economy and implementing other populist left-wing economic policies. (Perhaps a good comparison to Pron from the MENA region would be Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser.)"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@pmontu33 On my father's side I have two aunts and an uncle who immigrated to Venezuela (and hence many cousins there). Most are trying to get out or have left already. I now have relatives in places as odd as Iceland and Cuba as a result Venezuela's story is even more heartbreaking 😕"
X Link 2023-11-20T01:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@modbeirut No. My grandfather renounced his citizenship to avoid military conscription (The family had moved back to Lebanon soon after he was born so he was not as connected to the country). He preferred to immigrate to Saudi instead and boy what a good decision that was 😅"
X Link 2023-11-20T02:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@abourami_ My great-grandfather decided to send his family back to Lebanon for some reason but continued to work in Argentina and send remittances. I think he left permanently in the 1950s (during either Pern's rule or the military dictatorship that came after)"
X Link 2023-11-20T02:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@abourami_ He had a successful business there and apparently owned many properties but Argentina was not an appealing enough destination for his children so none of them chose to go back. The ones who immigrated all went to the Gulf"
X Link 2023-11-20T02:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@abourami_ Yes it sure was. My other grandfather lived in Brazil and had a successful business with his two brothers there. He and one of them sold their shares and came back to Lebanon in the boom times (1950s I think). They opened hotels in Beirut and did quite well for themselves"
X Link 2023-11-20T02:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@BoustanyMazen They are fewer in numbers but happen to share a border with us and may one day covet at least part of Lebanons more fertile land. Also the elephant in the room that makes up for their lack of numbers is their possession of an advanced military nukes etc"
X Link 2023-11-20T10:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@based_xmastrees Moroccos crazy run and the final were just 🔥"
X Link 2023-11-20T18:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine The important thing to remember is the original sin is the Zionist colonization of Palestine from the 1920s. This led to the rise in antisemitism and tensions and then later the retaliatory expulsions after 1948"
X Link 2023-11-24T18:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Yes this is true but it is also exaggerated by Israel and its supporters. (Its not true that Palestinians as a whole were left languishing in refugee camps). Jordan naturalized them; they are 50% or more of its citizenry today"
X Link 2023-11-24T18:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine There was nothing there for centuries; the area was a garbage dump. Muslims were more concerned with honoring a holy site in their religion and they naturally werent going to build a temple for another faith"
X Link 2023-11-24T19:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Your argument would make more sense in the case of say the Hagia Sophia"
X Link 2023-11-24T19:05Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine What does absorption mean in this case You want Jordan to take over the West Bank Or the locals to leave their villages I think the first option may be feasible / logical. Idk why the 2nd option is on the table. These are natives live in their ancestral towns. Why leave"
X Link 2023-11-24T23:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Most sources on the conflict in English have an Israeli bias (and Arab ones are filled with conspiracies) so its very hard to get a real view of what happened. Thats why we end up with the Israeli version of Israel fighting and winning defensive wars which simply isnt true"
X Link 2023-11-25T15:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Anyway groups obviously give up but its only when they have lost all vitality & hope like the Native Americans. Armenians were totally eliminated in Western Armenia by a much more powerful foe which they cant fight. But they held on to Artsakh and fought very strongly to-"
X Link 2023-11-25T15:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Yes they wont but they fought bravely for [--] yrs and now want to secure their sovereign state. Understandable. Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza number in the millions; theyre just not in a desperate enough position to give up their national dreams"
X Link 2023-11-25T15:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine Gaza is more complicated bc of Hamas being an armed enemy force to Israel (although theyve had in recent years shown willingness to accept a two state solution so something is possible there). But there is no question about the West Bank. Thats the real prize for Israelis"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine Gaza is just a small strip of coastal land near a mostly empty desert. Whereas the West Bank is the core hill country that runs through the center of the country. Israel wants it all at the expense of the locals hence all the checkpoints walls & settlements"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine So idk what else can be said about this. Israel is quite clearly majbourin when they rule that whole area"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:32Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @f_baddour Yes I know. I dont see Hamas as real vitality its more the fact that people continue to live and persevere in such oppressive conditions. Hamas is an extremist reaction to that which as you said Israel enables to weaken Palestinians in the long run"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine And the settlements are not legal & peaceful lol. How did you conclude that Some are just E Jerusalem suburbs (but being constructed deliberately to put a Jewish demographic barrier between E Jerusalem and Ramallah / Bethlehem)"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine Much of the rest function very much as military outposts with communities usually built on hilltops protected by the IDF and/or local vigilantes etc. These are garrison towns very much not peaceful 😅"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine Lol I was far more neutral a few years ago. So I know all the Israeli arguments and talking points. But the more I learned about this the more I realize how much of an injustice the whole situation has been to Palestinians ever since [----] (British takeover)"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine Ill watch it and I not all are crazed. Some essentially just function as Jerusalem suburbs. But the Israeli state is building them in a deliberate way to cut E Jerusalem from the West Bank make it impossible to be a future Palestinian capital"
X Link 2023-11-25T16:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine The Druze have their reasons (as I summarized here) none of which justifies them taking part in the colonization of the West Bank or their destruction of Gaza. Its immoral as much as it is short-sighted to bet all their cards on Israel"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine That said Israeli Druze are not as monotholic as Israel likes to present them. Theyve had prominent intellectuals (eg: Samih al Qasim Salman Natour Kais Firro) and Knesset members (Abdullah Abu Maaruf Mohamed & Said Naffaa) who are pro-Arab oppose conscription etc"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:58Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Narreddine There was even a sheikh from there who visited Lebanon recently (invited by Arslan & Wahhab I guess) and he holds a similar positions and often has problems with Israeli authorities. He even came to Lebanon on a Palestinian passport. I forget his name though"
X Link 2023-11-25T20:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"No the Zionist equivalent in Lebanon is a certain heavily armed and aggressively expansionist community (or a part thereof). And like religious Zionists they also claim to be exercising Gods will"
X Link 2023-11-25T20:27Z [----] followers, 14K engagements

"@martyrmade Congrats. Very well deserved"
X Link 2023-11-25T21:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@jabal_drz Maronites tend to be more nationalistic than other sects but it is typically in defense of a multi-confessional Greater Lebanon (with Maronites at the forefront) or of a return to a mostly Maronite Mt Lebanon. Neither form involves eliminating the other or taking their land"
X Link 2023-11-25T22:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Khosn1 But it must be said that I don't think revolutionary Khomeinism is better than Zionism. One is a form of religious extremism and the other of nationalist extremism. That said I hope Shias will one day shed these ideological excesses bc they are a core component of Lebanon"
X Link 2023-11-26T00:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Instagrabbin Bc normally when you wage war or genocide unilaterally there are no consequences right Israel would have probably ethnically cleansed the West Bank and Gaza a long time ago if doing so wouldnt jeapordize their membership in the US-led Western alliance"
X Link 2023-11-26T11:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Instagrabbin I'm not reading their minds lmao. I'm literally quoting them. And they're already expanding into WB & Gaza. One step at a time. Did the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains have nothing to worry about in [----] bc the US only consisted of the [--] colonies on the Eastern Seabord"
X Link 2023-11-26T11:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Amidst all the bloodshed and chaos the UAE shines brightly and forges a new path ahead for a part of the world sorely lacking in success stories let alone miracles. It bears not only the hopes of its 10m residents but of hundreds of millions of people from MENA and beyond"
X Link 2023-11-27T11:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Along with the other Gulf countries the UAE is destined to become the lifeboat that every ambitious individual from the Atlas to the Himalayas and from all around the Indian Ocean basin will cling to. And it will help shape the future of a major world civilization. That said the hope for a better future lives on in the Indian Ocean basin. The Muslim cities of the future are Dubai Doha Kuala Lumpur Jakarta. https://t.co/CjZep8Cveo That said the hope for a better future lives on in the Indian Ocean basin. The Muslim cities of the future are Dubai Doha Kuala Lumpur Jakarta."
X Link 2023-11-27T11:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine Yes. Im unironically very monarchist in orientation esp when it comes to the Middle East and even more so when these rulers are capable. It would be a dream job to work in Sheikh MBZs diwan 😉"
X Link 2023-11-27T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Lol I like Ataturk and modern Turkey. He is the Muslim worlds Napoleon. But Turkeys natural influence extends over the Balkans the Caucasus and Central Asia. Its population dislikes Arabs and besides Erdogan no politician had cared to exert real influence in Arab states"
X Link 2023-11-27T13:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd Oh God I cant believe this made it to Twitter lmao 😭 (Ill DM to explain) But yes this is a very Metn Druze accent lol"
X Link 2023-11-27T22:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Yes dhimmitude existed and religious minorities were oppressed. Its legacy even persists to this day through various forms of discrimination & prejudice. This is not unlike the legacy of slavery in the US and as such these minorities definitely have the right to bring it up"
X Link 2023-11-30T09:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"The problem is that in the modern era both sides can play this grievance game. Just as minorities suffer(ed) from dhimmitude & discrimination so have Muslims experienced brutal Western colonization (Algeria Palestine Libya) and oppression by minoritarian regimes (Syria)"
X Link 2023-11-30T09:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Mc_h99 @lil_amam You're correct about Rome but he's right about Islamic tolerance. It doesn't matter who was their first. Many other empires choose to wipe out local populations or destroy their culture with brute force. Islam did not do so and allowed them to keep their religion & culture"
X Link 2023-11-30T22:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 @lil_amam For a less tolerant counterexample look at how Catholic Spain treated Iberian Muslims & Jews and later on the native cultures of the Americas Philippines etc"
X Link 2023-11-30T22:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 @lil_amam It depends. Ottomans gave much more autonomy but you do see elements of it before. With Druze families like the Tanukhids dominating parts of Mt Lebanon since the 12th century. Or Maronite muqaddams having local autonomy in other parts of Mt Lebanon in the Mamluk era. Etc"
X Link 2023-11-30T22:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Mc_h99 @lil_amam We'll agree to disagree on this. It's fair to call out French colonization of Algeria as a particular horror even by general imperial standards. In [--] years (1830 to 1875) a third of Algerians died in the process of France conquering the country. Very brutal"
X Link 2023-11-30T23:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WhiskyNCiggs -the Mongols while the latter were laying waste to Muslim city after Muslim city and building mountains of skulls of the people they killed. The Armenians had justifications to do but similarly it was not irrational for Muslims to opt to mistreat Eastern Christians after they-"
X Link 2023-12-01T12:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WhiskyNCiggs -had prevailed against the Mongols. Ill give another more personal example. The Druze in Israel serve in its army while it subjects a large Arab Muslim population to a brutal military occupation (WB) or regularly bombards them (Gaza)"
X Link 2023-12-01T12:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WhiskyNCiggs We're talking about two different things. My point is that theological interpretations can change over time. Westerners genuinely felt guilty over the Holocaust and sought to make amends for it even before Jews had their state & were strong enough to hunt the likes of Eichmann"
X Link 2023-12-02T00:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@WhiskyNCiggs The West actively documented what happened in the camps tried the perpetrators in Nuremberg eliminated anti-Jewish prejudice from its faith embrace Jews at the core of their civilization (now "Judeo-Christian") etc. This all started to happen even when Jews were still "weak""
X Link 2023-12-02T00:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"One of the rare positive moments in the regions modern history. God bless the UAE for leading by example and for giving all of us in our part of the world a vision of what a better future could look like ❤"
X Link 2023-12-02T14:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Narreddine Man you often put out some good and interesting religious content but some of your (political) threads are quite outlandish. and this one might be your most unhinged one yet I mean beyond this thread everything you say about the Jumblatts is so exaggerated"
X Link 2023-12-02T22:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Narreddine Yes a Sunni family that became champions of the Druze cause (in the mind of most Druze). Like how the Sunni Shihabs championed later the Maronite cause. It happens Lebanese feudal politics are not squeaky clean"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Fine lets say that that is the case. How come all Yemenite feudal families that survived the battle are still present in Lebanon in some cases chiefly so (like Alammedine & Arslan)"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine I have a Zahreddine grandparent. Idk if theyre more numerous in Sweida but theyre not a small family in Lebanon and have branches in all districts (Chouf Aley and Metn)"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine I dont blame Maronites and dont think our principal challenges are Jumblatt rule / dominance. Those are emigration low birth rates and the general political & economic problems of Lebanon"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine Bro words are cheap and these statements are understood by everyone as intended to save the Druze face vis a vis more powerful / larger communities. Hes not going to turn on his own base lol. Or on Druze more generally in any real sense. That is simply ridiculous"
X Link 2023-12-02T23:51Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@heraldgardner @Narreddine Interesting thoughts but I think treating Ain Dara as a watershed in the Maronites rise might be a bit premature. In the long run it was inevitable for demographic reasons but the process of settling Maronites in southern Mt Lebanon started a century prior with Fakhreddine"
X Link 2023-12-04T02:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"If this is proven to be true (that Prof Refaat was killed in a targeted assassination) it is absolutely obscene. If this is a war on Hamas and not the Palestinian people why murder academics Why blow up buildings that house key institutions Why destroy Gaza City entirely"
X Link 2023-12-08T18:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Of course anyone familiar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict would know that Israel has long targeted Palestinian academics and intellectuals for assassination (Ghassan Kanafani Kamal Nasser Naji al-Ali etc.)"
X Link 2023-12-08T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"As for why Israel targets such individuals in the first place I think Prof Refaat himself explained it very well in one of his lectures 👇"
X Link 2023-12-08T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@ElanaNYC1 There was no mass rape and colonization in the early Arab empire. The Arab conquerers acted as a new ruling elite that's all. The bulk of the population remained Christian until the 12th C. (Things changed after the Crusades and later rulers like Mamluks were less tolerant)"
X Link 2023-12-09T02:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@ElanaNYC1 And I'm a very indigenous Levantine Druze btw (in case you're wondering if I have Stockholm syndrome or am a biased apologist for Islam)"
X Link 2023-12-09T02:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@lil_amam But it could be of course my outsider perspective that didnt appreciate the nuances between East & South Slavs"
X Link 2023-12-09T11:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @nourrtann Lol. It has nothing to do with the other side being Jewish. Its about what their movement represents in practice (the colonization of a certain land by an new foreign population at the expense of the local population)"
X Link 2023-12-09T20:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @nourrtann It would be equally Faustian if the Druze were say a local indigenous population in North Africa and actively colluded to support the French settlers in Algeria in dispossessing other indigenous Algerians (their cultural kin)"
X Link 2023-12-09T20:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @nourrtann Unfortunately some of them are. They guard Jewish colonies on the West Bank and bombard Palestinian inmates in the open-air Gaza prison"
X Link 2023-12-09T22:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @nourrtann Palestinians are reacting to Druze aggression on them. I prefer to diffuse tensions by nudging the next generation of Israeli Druze to take a more balanced stance. It is the right thing to do and strategically far more wise than betting everything on Israel"
X Link 2023-12-09T22:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @nourrtann The Druze dont need minority fortresses to survive. Historically thats not how they did. We were not like the Nizaris holed up in Alamut. Our survival hinged on wise and balanced political decisions toward all powers of the day (Pro-Mamluk Tanukhids vs. pro-Ottoman Maans)"
X Link 2023-12-09T22:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@lil_amam They like our music bc it is very similar to theirs esp for those originally from Anatolia or the islands. (Greek music tends to be associated with the style in Zorba the Greek which is a bit misleading since it actually comes from Italianate Corfu in northwestern Greece.)"
X Link 2023-12-11T14:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@yallaWael Lol where is this from"
X Link 2023-12-11T18:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@RamieSays I agree. Athens and Istanbul are two of my favorite cities They felt like a different flavor of home :)"
X Link 2023-12-11T18:34Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@griergray3RD Yes Im one of the lucky ones who has somewhat less to fear from Israeli expansionism. And yet I would rather not sell my soul for worldly gain as my Israeli Druze cousins did and take part in the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of their cultural kin in the West Bank & Gaza"
X Link 2023-12-12T21:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Instagrabbin No its not. People remember the repeated assaults on Gaza and al-Aqsa the attempts to evict Palestinians in parts of Jerusalem the brutal crackdown to the Second Intifada the siege and destruction of West Beirut etc"
X Link 2023-12-13T12:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"I keep getting objections to my posts on Gaza from people who still believe that Israels war is a professional operation to take out Hamas never mind that human rights orgs have started to call it a genocide. But if it is so why do their soldiers roam around acting like this"
X Link 2023-12-13T23:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@thoubyan Lol the main reason there is any animosity at all nowadays is that their regime keeps interfering in and destroying our countries through their proxies. Not bc we are pissed that they did not become Arab lol"
X Link 2023-12-13T23:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@oldlevantine No Franck. The Nakba was not a self-inflicted wound nor an Arab war of aggression. The Arabs states only intervened after some 300-400000 Palestinian Arabs had fled their homes and were pouring into their countries. Almost all the fighting in 1948-49 took place in the part-"
X Link 2023-12-15T12:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@oldlevantine -of Mandate Palestine that the UN had allotted to an Arab state. The Arab states were acting defensively (and belatedly) to stem the flow of refugees and preserve what they could of a territory both formally allotted to and populated by Arabs"
X Link 2023-12-15T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@oldlevantine Yes Palestinians retroactively chose year zero to be the year of the Balfour Declaration (which obviously isn't technically year zero bc there was no British Mandate yet). But really the technicalities and semantics are besides the point. The declaration did later serve as-"
X Link 2023-12-15T22:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@oldlevantine -the foundation for the British Mandate's policy toward Jewish settlement in Palestine which the British actively sponsored and supported. There would likely not be an Israel today were it not for British support in those crucial early decades"
X Link 2023-12-15T22:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@thoubyan Nope the sea isnt that close to Deir El Qamar 😅 This is a Lebanese Christian village according to OpenAIs DALLE 😉"
X Link 2023-12-24T15:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd I think there will be three main poles of the Muslim world not a singular one: - Neo-Ottoman Turkey (Balkans E Med Caucasus C Asia) - Revolutonary Shiite Iran (Iran + parts/all of Iraq Lebanon etc.) - Neo-Arabist alliance (KSA UAE Egypt Jordan Morocco etc.)"
X Link 2023-12-25T21:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@BaykalSheikh @Omar_ghxd Obviously this is not exhaustive and more centered on the Greater Middle East. South Asia is dominated by Hindu India with Bangladesh likely to be firmly in its orbit. Pakistan will not be a pole but rather fight Hindu hegemony by aligning with one or more of those [--] poles"
X Link 2023-12-26T01:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BaykalSheikh @Omar_ghxd SE Asia is geographically far and culturally quite distinct. Its what LatAm is to Europe. Even if Indonesia become a regional power its hard to imagine faraway Muslim countries looking up to & aligning with it. (Similarly Westerners dont / wont ever look up to Brazil)"
X Link 2023-12-26T01:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@BaykalSheikh @Omar_ghxd Pakistan is very dysfunctional today and economically underdeveloped. No one looks up to it for leadership; conversely it is Pakistanis who are variously Arabophilic Turkophilic etc. All its nukes do is prevent a direct invasion / takeover by &/or future nuclear power"
X Link 2023-12-26T01:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"And it didnt have to be that way. They could have opted for self-preservation and cut a deal with the Zionist movement (or later with Israel) anytime in the last [---] yrs. Indeed thats what other minorities in historic Palestine did (Druze Circassians many Bedouins etc.)"
X Link 2023-12-27T13:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Yet Palestinian Christians did not yield and played a major role in resisting Israeli aggression. The Christian-majority town of Beit Sahour for instance was famously at the epicenter of the First Intifada and was besieged by Israeli forces for months in retaliation"
X Link 2023-12-27T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Not even the rise of Hamas and the Islamization of a national cause that is equally theirs (100000 Christians were uprooted in the Nakba) nor the decline of their population due to emigration made them capitulate"
X Link 2023-12-27T13:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"They are truly a fundamentally decent and noble people and I hope that they are rewarded for their moral fortitude one day. God bless them 🙏❤"
X Link 2023-12-27T13:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CK0602205 The Druze dont hate Fakhreddine. It would be absurd for us to hate our greatest-ever ruler. The Druze dislike that he was hijacked as the founding father of a Lebanon that systematically marginalized us. Thats why the original statue was symbolically destroyed"
X Link 2024-01-13T22:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@KtirLebnene @HaniGhraizi @CK0602205 There are a lot of myths surrounding Fakhreddine most often around an attempt to de-Druzify / Christianize him (as a way to demote the Druzes place in Lebanons history and boost that of the Maronites). Those are frankly in poor taste and disrespectful to the Druze"
X Link 2024-01-13T22:38Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CK0602205 He did not convert to Christianity and if anything lived outwardly as a Sunni Muslim as evidenced by his taking of multiple wives simultaneously (forbidden in Druze law)"
X Link 2024-01-13T22:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@CK0602205 He was also not particularly supported by the Christian West and left his exile in Italy rather despondent at the limited support he received for his ambitions in Lebanon from the rulers who hosted him there"
X Link 2024-01-13T22:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Based Namibia (and South Africa of course) Namibia rejects Germanys Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908 in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most https://t.co/ZxwWxLv8yt Namibia rejects Germanys Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza On Namibian soil #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908 in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians"
X Link 2024-01-14T10:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@AmeerJafarKama1 Yes thats fair. It is a bad country for individual wealth accumulation. Youre more likely to be and stay middle class but its hard to cross that glass ceiling of being wealthy. Theres a reason a lot of ambitious French people live abroad"
X Link 2024-01-14T10:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AmeerJafarKama1 But tbh thats what French voters have been choosing since WW2 effectively. The nature of the system (high tax & benefits fewer working hours) is an outcome of voter choice"
X Link 2024-01-14T10:37Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@AmeerJafarKama1 I get what you mean but I think thats very specific to Paris. Once you go further out in le de France or other parts of the country it is less lopsided. Using Paris as the barometer is would be the same as comparing avg US salaries with NYC or SF home prices (also lopsided)"
X Link 2024-01-14T10:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

": "" ( ) . . 🦁❤ Thank you @RitaGSalameh Thank you Rita. You are the designer of the flag for the state of Mount Lebanon; your name will be written in history. This design is official. #MLG https://t.co/T6G66EjniW Thank you @RitaGSalameh Thank you Rita. You are the designer of the flag for the state of Mount Lebanon; your name will be written in history. This design is official. #MLG https://t.co/T6G66EjniW"
X Link 2024-01-15T10:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Lol Google translated Al-Emarat al-Matniya al-Mutahida as United Arab Emirates. Based 🤣"
X Link 2024-01-15T10:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Good thread on what is going on in Gaza. If you take off your ideological blinkers and put your emotions aside there is only one conclusion that can be drawn namely that this is one of the worst massacres in modern warfare perpetrated by a thoroughly unprofessional army. The Gaza War is one of the most lopsided massacres in the history of modern warfare and the delusion of anyone who thinks Hamas is holding its own is incredible. The frequency of rocket fire from Gaza has totally collapsed which is an objective indicator of how the war's going The Gaza War is one of the most lopsided"
X Link 2024-01-15T20:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Bairamian I really enjoy your writing William but I don't think this is a fair post. The Turks were great innovators in politics law and warfare. For instance the millet system was an important innovation in Islamic law influencing legal systems in the Middle East to this day"
X Link 2024-01-17T00:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@Bairamian Devshirme was also once a very effective way to build elite army units. Culturally the Ottomans also left their mark especially in the distinctive architecture. These qualities persist in modern Turkey. For one it's the first Muslim-majority country to undergo a successful-"
X Link 2024-01-17T00:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Omar_ghxd Go check out Sintra in the mountains near Lisbon if you have time"
X Link 2024-01-21T11:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Samuel Huntington's prophecy on the clash of civilizations is becoming more real by the day. The old "nation state" paradigm seems to be falling apart everywhere and a new paradigm that of religiously defined "civilization states" is taking its place. Ayodhya has undergone a massive transformation for the big day today. Waiting for [---] years has ended. Wrestling back a mandir from a mosque by invaders has finally happened. https://t.co/V3Oda3lnR0 Ayodhya has undergone a massive transformation for the big day today. Waiting for [---] years has ended. Wrestling back a mandir from a mosque by"
X Link 2024-01-21T23:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"India is a good illustration of this. Modi has re-centered Hinduism in Indian public life and this is now being consecrated with the reconstruction of a temple for the Hindu god Ram in Ayodhya. (The original temple was demolished by the Mughals who built a mosque in its place)"
X Link 2024-01-21T23:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@omar_gddd Costa de Caparica just south of Lisbon"
X Link 2024-01-24T20:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@romytweeting Eh ktiiir hahaha I have a logo rule tbh. Before looking at ideology financial backers etc. I check the logo. If its ugly & pixelated I cant get behind the organization. Tfeh 😅🤣"
X Link 2024-01-25T21:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Its hilarious how theyre spinning this 😭 BREAKING: Israel won in court today The ICJ recognized that Israel has an inalienable right to defend itself against the terrorist onslaught Israel faces. It demands the immediate release of all hostages South Africas attempt to empty the word genocide of its meaning failed https://t.co/mff7COK9Mb BREAKING: Israel won in court today The ICJ recognized that Israel has an inalienable right to defend itself against the terrorist onslaught Israel faces. It demands the immediate release of all hostages South Africas attempt to empty the word genocide of"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:12Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@amahaf2 True its obviously as good as it could possibly get at this stage that the ICJ determined that Israel may be committing genocide"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:17Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sawaya_nicolas They know theyre just trying to spin this to save face for their stances and for clicks impressions etc. Thats how accounts like Visegrad stay relevant"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@sawaya_nicolas True the aftermath of Oct [--] has laid bare the hypocrisy of the West and all its key institutions (govt media corporates intl law etc.)"
X Link 2024-01-26T18:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Normally I am skeptical of entities like UNRWA as I believe that aid dependency does more harm than good over the long term. But to do this now to deepen the humanitarian crisis in the midst of a "plausible genocide" (as the ICJ put it) is simply immoral. The countries now defunding UNRWA support mass starvation as a war tactic the politicization of humanitarian aid and the conflation of the UN and terrorism. They are: Australia Canada Finland Germany Italy the Netherlands Switzerland the UK and the US. For shame. The countries now defunding UNRWA support mass starvation as a war tactic the"
X Link 2024-01-28T13:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Instagrabbin There's a third option which is that you're getting paid handsomely for your views. In this case I hope you're earning as much as @hahussain and @HusseinAboubak for your grift :)"
X Link 2024-01-28T14:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"@oldlevantine Tbh this strikes me as a regurgitation of academic leftist decolonization discourse. I dont think that such a line of argument is entirely without merit but it is a bit demeaning to tell them: you dont know whats good for you bc your mind has been colonized for so long"
X Link 2024-01-28T20:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Anthonioseo The real issue underlying this occurrence is the Galilean Druze communitys active (and shameful) participation in what is increasingly appearing to be a genocide. History wont be kind to them or indeed the rest of us by proxy unfortunately. Itll be another [----] moment"
X Link 2024-02-01T22:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"I love how she purposely left out Europe and much of East Asia here 😂 And its amusing that she thinks Anglos are the pinnacle of civilization. The average Anglo today is a reviled boorish drunkard who wreaks havoc all around the Med in the summer 🤣 "Outside of the U.S. Canada Australia and a few other places settled by the British plus Japan and Israel the rest of the world is a cesspool of illiterate savages living on less than $10a day who are thunderstruck by electricity and written language." 'THE FALL OF ROME "Outside of the U.S. Canada Australia and a few other places settled by the"
X Link 2024-02-03T11:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"Even America itself looks like a fantastically wealthy place populated by cultural philistines who care little to build beautiful cities buildings etc. That makes the dominant Anglo civilization one of the most philistine ones yet relative to many of its predecessors"
X Link 2024-02-03T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@nicolas_ruf Avg tax rate for someone earning 50-60k in = that of someone earning $200k in 😅 (if I recall correctly)"
X Link 2024-02-05T01:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"Under his watch (and thus his implicit approval) Galilean Druze men have become a prominent face of the Israeli occupation esp in the West Bank. And as if their being checkpoint thugs was not enough he has now abetted without any apparent reservations their transformation-"
X Link 2024-02-05T22:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"-into full-on killing machines in the last few months. How many more documented Israeli war crimes must we watch or photos of IDF soldiers posing with Druze flags and hoisting them on tanks & flagpoles must we see before a prominent Druze religious leader in Lebanon or Syria-"
X Link 2024-02-05T22:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine That means that virtually every Israeli Druze family has a soldier on active duty or a veteran. As much as you like to dismiss it or mislead on that point thats not insignificant. And its only natural that I care about events happening around me (say in the Levant) esp-"
X Link 2024-02-05T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine -when members of my own community are implicated in than those committed further afield whether in Yemen Sudan and the Congo or toward the Rohingya and the Uighurs. As for ISIS it is as representative of the average Syrian or Palestinian Sunni as Rasheed Jumblat is of Druze"
X Link 2024-02-05T23:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Old_Yishuv Not a massacre but one crime comes quickly to mind. The depopulation of 20-25 villages in Marj Ibn Amer (Jezreel Valley) when Zionist settlers expelled the local tenant farmers after a Zionist org purchased the land. Essentially ethnic cleansing on a small scale"
X Link 2024-02-06T00:34Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Old_Yishuv It was the negative unfortunate outcome of a decade of repeated Zionist provocation and mistreatment of Palestinian natives. For instance the riots in [----] started with a provocative military drill by Zionist youth groups in the city center of Jerusalem"
X Link 2024-02-06T00:39Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@f_baddour @Old_Yishuv I grew up abroad not in Lebanon and with no ideological blinkers unlike what you seem to imply. As I mentioned to you before I used to be more partial to Israel a while back @f_baddour Lol my views were much more partial to Israel in the past particularly due to its impressive economic strengths. Dan Senors Startup Nation was one such book I read on this. I still respect that aspect and Ill probably pick up his new book The Genius of Israel at some point. @f_baddour Lol my views were much more partial to Israel in the past particularly due to its impressive economic"
X Link 2024-02-06T08:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@f_baddour @Old_Yishuv I agree what happened on Oct [--] was evil albeit it cant be divorced out of its own particular context (it is better compared to say a slave revolt or evil acts by the FLN in Algeria Viet Cong etc. than to something like ISIS the Nazis etc.)"
X Link 2024-02-06T20:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine @WalidAbuHaya1 And you cannot ascribe persecution by specific pre-modern local rulers like Dahir al Umar to "Palestinians." These were run-of-the-mill pre-modern tribal conflicts in an Ottoman context. Those were not too different from the Druze conflict with the Maronites in Lebanon"
X Link 2024-02-07T01:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements

"@Narreddine The guy in the videos I shared presents the conclusions in a much better way and does not use anachronistic language. Firro was a great scholar and one of our greatest modern Druze intellectuals. His work is meticulously researched. Hating on him is a bit amusing I must say"
X Link 2024-02-08T22:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@khalid390465965 Its very visible in urban areas though so it magnifies the scale & impact of the transformation. Cities like London Paris Berlin are not very Euro white anymore. (Its a bit hysterical to call it an invasion in my opinion but it is a very big change)"
X Link 2024-02-11T14:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

"@Narreddine @khalid390465965 @amahaf2 Shishakli would be the only such case in modern Syria that is equivalent to the state persecution of Ahmadis in or Bahais in . But thats [--] yrs ago not today. The rest are primarily politically motivated not religious persecution qua religious persecution"
X Link 2024-02-11T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements

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