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Turned on alerts for this guy’s tweets, so now my phone pings not only when he warns which Beirut building complex the Israeli military plans to collapse, but also when he provides real-times updates on cleansing Gaza 😐
Israeli military announces beginning of north-to-south removal of remaining civilian population from north Gaza to Mawasi concentration camp:
What they are doing runs counter to Hadith, Sunna & common sense. How is it that no leader in the Sunni world has failed to remind them what Khadijeh, first wife of the Prophet did or was? How long can this narrow, ethnocentric-rooted folk-view carry on without challenge?
I live in Hackney, northeast London, UK. Cycling home from Parkrun, I saw this Arabic slogan on a wall near home. Seems pointed today: (approx) ‘We have no fear of death / In the love of Hossein’ With Israel the strongest entity by far, will it use its supremacy to seek a strong, just, peace?
I've said this before, but it is worth underlining: the current conflict, the current bloodshed is on a scale which has no comparison in the history of Israel and the Palestinians since 1948. History really is no guide for what is going on now, because what is happening now is unprecedented.
Gift link for an extraordinary piece: The Deserter www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Is it me or does Agamben & Foucault provide little struct. In seeking to unpack state conduct in IR context? Many Bahrainis face ‘bare life’, but int’l HR obligations provide counter pressure, but that’s outside Agamben’s scope (or is it?). I need to resort to some IR (Marx-inspired ideally) theory.
If the Pezeshkian administration wants to achieve anything, it must be to reign in - even just a bit - the IRGC & Bayt-e Rahbari - so the security forces just let people be people, without detaining or killing them. Otherwise we are on the same, slow path to exactly what happened in 1979 (IMHO)
