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I am writing a new book!
COUNTERWEIGHTS: IRAN, ISRAEL, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
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This is the thing with "Brad Lander got undeserved attention! He just wanted a photo opp!" - okay, well, what got him the attention.
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And then Khomeini had him jailed and tortured anyway
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Pretty big deal, as you can imagine this is a candidate who won't get a P5 veto and may strongly be favored by at least one P5 state. Also a real test of the unspoken norms at the UN, where it's supposed to be Latin America's "turn" for SG
#BREAKING: Lana Nusseibeh, minister of state for foreign affairs of Arab power and close US ally the UAE, told Reuters that she had enter the race to become the 10th United Nations secretary-general, promising to bring the global body's relevance to global diplomacy back.
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Diplomats are scrambling to prevent renewed conflict with Iran as the U.S. deploys more warships and Israel prepares potential strikes.
Pakistan and Qatar are trying to revive nuclear negotiations, offering sanctions relief and access to frozen funds in exchange for concessions.
Source: WSJ
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من زوال امپراطوری آمریکا را قبول دارم. اما مسئله اصلی زمان است. این زوال چقدر طول می‌کشد؟ به نظر من این زوال مثل زوال همه امپراطوری‌ها دست‌کم چندین سال (اگر نگوییم چند دهه) طول خواهد کشید. مسئله ایران با آمریکا اما مسئله‌ای‌ست فوری. دست بالا در چند ماه باید حل شود.
Cuba's foreign minister
En conferencia de prensa, demostramos las presiones y amenazas brutales de EEUU contra los Estados miembros de @ONU_es para cambiar su voto en la resolución contra el bloqueo.
Las dirigen personalmente el Secretario de Estado y su representante ante la ONU,
Llevan meses en esas gestiones.
Sus métodos de convencimiento incluyen la amenaza contra gobiernos de aplicarles aranceles punitivos, suspender programas de cooperación, negar visas a los funcionarios de gobierno y sus familiares, respaldar a las fuerzas de oposición en venideras elecciones e incluso desestabilizar políticamente a los países.
Circulan además documentos con mensajes claros y amenazantes del gobierno estadounidense contra gobiernos diversos y sus delegaciones ante la ONU.
Han intentado buscar gobiernos que hagan el papel de líderes para motivar a otros a cambiar su posición histórica.
Han llegado al colmo ridículo de proponer a ciertos países abstenerse o, en última instancia, ausentarse de la votación, si no pudiesen asumir un voto en contra de Cuba.
Es un modo novedoso y peligroso de llevar a cabo la diplomacia multilateral.
Refleja la impotencia del que no tiene la razón y su único recurso es la fuerza.
#CubaNoEsUnaAmenaza El Bloqueo Sí.
Melenchon on Iran's killing of protesters back in January. A pretty decent position
Les informations qui parviennent d'Iran montrent un massacre organisé des opposants. La preuve se renouvelle que tout pouvoir religieux ou ethnique sur un État finit inéluctablement dans la violence. Encore une fois, des élections libres avec liberté de candidature sont la solution. Sinon la tentative d'imposer de force la dynastie du Shah chassée en 1979 provoquera de nouvelles violences.
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Knesset Voting Intention (Jewish 18–22-year-olds subsample)
🔵UTJ: 17%
🔴Yashar: 12%
🔴Together: 12%
🔵RZP-Zehut: 12%
🔵Otzma: 10%
🔵Likud: 8%
🔴Yisrael Beteinu: 7%
🟣Reservists-Economic: 5%
🔵Shas: 3%
🔴Democrats: 3%
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Just received my customized T-shirt that I ordered a few days ago; it looks sick.
Great job, comrades! Keep it up. I am sure you’ll become prime minister soon.
🎥 “We want to go the Farage route, not the Lib Dem route.”
Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine spoke to Novara Media about strategy behind the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, which took a year to organize and was designed to expose Labour’s politics. He said PM Andy Burnham’s response revealed him as little different from Keir Starmer.
Inspired by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its “strategy of conflict,” the idea is to set the terms of debate, provoke a backlash, and heighten contradictions to force opponents to reveal positions.
Rather than chase more MPs by moderating its politics, Kumar says the Greens should use confrontation to shift the debate leftward and become an anti-establishment force.
“We want to drag [the paradigm] to the left kicking and screaming.”
@comrade_kumar_ | @novaramedia
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Armchair revolutionary Ashok Kumar is literally out of his mind. What he has done is split the Green Party in two. He has destabilised the leadership, triggered mass resignations, a slump in the polls & shredded the party's anti-racist reputation. Student politics at its worst.
🎥 “We want to go the Farage route, not the Lib Dem route.”
Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine spoke to Novara Media about strategy behind the Green Party’s “Zionism is racism” motion, which took a year to organize and was designed to expose Labour’s politics. He said PM Andy Burnham’s response revealed him as little different from Keir Starmer.
Inspired by Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed and its “strategy of conflict,” the idea is to set the terms of debate, provoke a backlash, and heighten contradictions to force opponents to reveal positions.
Rather than chase more MPs by moderating its politics, Kumar says the Greens should use confrontation to shift the debate leftward and become an anti-establishment force.
“We want to drag [the paradigm] to the left kicking and screaming.”
@comrade_kumar_ | @novaramedia
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UPDATE: Lana Nusseibeh, senior UAE diplomat, enters race for next UN Secretary General. If elected, she’d be
- first woman
- first of Palestinian descent
- second Arab in position. More al-monitor.com/originals/202…
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goethe was 65 when he read hafez in translation, called him his twin and wrote back to a man who’d been dead in shiraz for four hundred years with the west-östlicher divan. a century later iqbal read the divan, understood it as a letter and answered goethe with payam-e-mashriq.
Christopher Hitchens was a big critic of Israel but he had no problem saying he believes in its right to exist
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Here's how Christopher Hitchens answered the "right to exist" question back in 1983.
🚨 BREAKING:
Hunt: "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?"
Abd El-Sayed: "Now, the question of the right to exist is interesting, because I've never been asked whether I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether we want a policy where our money is sent to Israel to commit genocide and apartheid, rather than investing it in our children."
Hunt: "Does it have a right to exist?"
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میدان - انتخابات اسرائیل؛ آینده رویارویی با جمهوری اسلامی
کمتر از یک هفته‌ی دیگر، انتخابات اسرائیل برگزار می‌شود؛ نتیجه‌ی این انتخابات تا چه حد می‌تواند تنش و رویارویی میان اسرائیل و جمهوری اسلامی را تغییر دهد؟ و این برای ایران و ایرانیان چه معنایی دارد؟
بهروز یوسیان و مئیر جاودانفر
آرش عزیزی و وحید بهشتی
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Wait till you read about Assad's collaboration with Israel to restrict Iran, despite everything Ali Khamenei put into Syria. Alongside effectively endorsing Ahmadinejad in 2009 elections, Syria was among Khamenei's greatest blunders.
