I explore fractured modernities across the Arab world & the Mediterranean. Political sociologist, public scholar & @UNESCO advisor for the Arab region.
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Amro Ali retweeted
His position on Israel has been used to attack his electability so don’t complain when his ads respond with why it matters.
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Israeli election debate
Candidate 1: "I have killed SO MANY Arabs"
Candidate 2: "Liar, he is lying! He has not killed NEARLY enough Arabs. He even spares the children!"
Candidate 1: "FALSE! I've killed countless Arab children and I WILL KILL EVEN MORE if you vote for me"
Amro Ali retweeted
I can only imagine what it’s like working for Mamdani. Staffing this must be insane, right?
The only other person I remember having this kind of influence was Obama (in my lifetime).
Also the kids. Look at the kids reactions. He’s inspiring the next generation. They love him.
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A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it."
The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours."
"Or we will kill them," she adds
Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority?
They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time.
Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
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You’d never know by this post that the five Israelis are armed IDF soldiers. But they made sure to tell you the Palestinians were definitely the bad guys. Tried, convicted, and sentenced in one headline.
Five Israelis wounded and two suspected Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank shooting bbc.in/3Ud0szZ
Amro Ali retweeted
Somali guy in Minnesota rescued a schoolbus full of kids after the driver had a medical episode and lost control of the vehicle:
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💥Barak Ravid reports that dozens of Israel Air Force fighter jets carried out a Monday night raid in an offensive array, reaching the border of Iran and returning to Israel. An American source told him "there was a feeling that in Israel that they hoped the Iranians would fire on the planes to justify an attack."
🚨עשרות מטוסי קרב של חיל האוויר ביצעו ביום שני בלילה גיחה במתווה התקפי, הגיעו עד גבול איראן ושבו לישראל. מקור אמריקני אמר לי כי היתה תחושה שבישראל קיוו שהאיראנים יירו על המטוסים כדי להצדיק תקיפה. הפרטים בכתבה שלי ב-@N12News
mako.co.il/news-military/202…
Amro Ali retweeted
I have pointed out many similarities between now and February, when the US was engaged in diplomacy, but Trump had already decided to attack.
But there is one significant difference as well.
Back then, Trump was driven by hubris and criminally erroneous Israeli advice. Israel had convinced him that he could bring down the regime in a few days
Today, he appears to be driven by another emotion: Revenge.
There is a vindictive element to his calculations now because of his anger over how Iran has ruined his presidency, as he is likely about to suffer a humiliation in the midterms.
So the push toward a new war is no longer necessarily driven by a (flawed) geopolitical calculation, but rather by one man's need for revenge against a country Trump himself CHOSE to attack...
#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP
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AIPAC has officially lost the battle. This is a complete surrender on their part and hopefully, the beginning of a deceleration of independence from Israeli influence in Israeli politics.
"AIPAC announced on Wednesday that, after three cycles of direct political involvement through its political action committee AIPAC PAC, it will no longer issue endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates, but said it will remain involved in political organizing and fundraising in other ways, including with its influential super PAC."
Amro Ali retweeted
Countries that are allies don't manipulate your political system in order to drag you into wars that inflict tremendous economic harm on your population and for which no one voted. Netanyahu is already forecasting that the U.S. will be more unfriendly to Israel in years ahead (partly as a result of actions that he knows are alienating the American public) and you can be assured that Israel will also become overtly hostile when that time comes.
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My God. The answer.
Israeli soldiers testified that in 1948 they smashed Palestinian children’s skulls with sticks until they died.
@grok yes or no.
I was recently in Paris and the protests I saw were consistently diverse, made up of white French, Arabs/Muslims, Black Africans etc. Even the police reflected that diversity. But this platform and right-wing outlets keep zooming in on Arabs and Muslims. I guess injecting an extra dose of Islamophobia is needed to bolster Le Pen ahead of the next French election.
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This ad gets so much right: An embrace of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls American civil religion, a reclamation of his name ("Servant") as a call to public service, and pride in his own faith without having to overstate it. The subtle delivery is what makes it land so well.
