Look at what fucking Israel has brought upon the world. Normalizing the bombing of hospitals.

“A large explosion hit” Yes, the gods thunderbolted the city, an event as mysterious and “from nothing” as the Big Bang

So absolutely, earth-shakingly horrific we heard it and felt its force throughout the entire city

The third part of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran: @warghetti.bsky.social on bombs over Beirut Aslı Bâli on the arsonists of world order and a dispatch from the first days of war in Tehran, translated by Salar Abdoh www.equator.org/articles/dea...

“It is incumbent upon us not… to get into debates about who is the tail and who the dog, when both are simply different heads of the same ravening beast.” I wrote a letter from Beirut for The Markaz Review themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a...

A bad bad bad bad night in Beirut tonight 😣 8 dead so far in an airstrike on a tent where displaced people were sheltering on the beach.To feel outrage would imply some expectation of humanity on the part of the Zios. But Gaza has shown us the kind of depravity they’ve normalized in the world

The hand-wringing over the lack of American strategic coherence should not distract from the likelihood that Israel as the other key actor in this war most likely has quite clear strategic intentions

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com

Less than one week; 395 people killed

Nearly 400 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israeli resumed bombing

I can’t think of anything more quintessentially American than this. Self-assured, self-centered, totally naive & very happy to have other people to pay the price for her entry into paradise. Evangelicals are just capitalists by way of metaphor

We are looking for rigorous, well-sourced work — journalistic, historical, or investigative — that is grounded in anti-imperialist and anti-colonial commitments on Lebanon and the region. We are also interested in photo essays, testimonies, and interviews.

An excellent, sober piece of reporting

The goal, based on statements by the US and Israel this month, is apparently to smash up the middle east to ensure everyone except Israel is weak and Israel can expand without opposition.

The Israeli finance minister Smotrich, who is also a deputy defense minister, threatens to turn Beirut into Khan Younis.

IOF: ATTENTION: We recommend that inhabitants of Beirut open all their windows as the upcoming explosions are set to be much stronger than usual

IOF just issued orders to evacuate ALL of Beirut’s southern suburbs, even defining what roads people should take to get out. The city is in a state of total panic. Just like Gaza: “leave everything where it stands and get out. The superior race is coming to erase you & there’s nothing you can do.”

My grandmother’s home, the family home, the home I spent nearly every Sunday in for over 3 decades, the home I lived in as a teenager, that my grandparents bought in 1965 when Ghobeiri still had orchards, the house my aunt inherited & in which my cousins grew up, is gone. No one was home, thank god

this is their goal with pretty much every country they bomb. it worked for them with Palestine.

IOF just issued a warning ordering everyone south of the Litani River to leave their homes & land & evacuate north. We are talking about some 200,000 people losing everything & becoming refugees overnight so that those filthy settlers can invade & begin embarking on their Greater Israel project

In just four days.

The main drawback of this website is and forever will be that as a % it is completely unviable to follow MENA when vast supermajority are just Americans. You can not follow anything about the ongoing developments in Bahrain, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq on here

My reporting from today. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.

Well, that & the rabid dog that is Israel has been finally allowed total free reign alongside total immunity from any consequence. The rule of law was deliberately left for dead along with tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. This is the legacy of all US empire, not the doing of one president

The Lebanese government has just issued a directive “banning” Hezbollah and criminalizing its members, granting authority to the army to go after them. And just like that, from Israeli war to potential civil war in the span of less than 12 hours

Remarkable to see claims of Lebanese violations of a ceasefire which has been a one-sided affair since mid 2024. Israel has bombed Lebanon thousands of times since then and in fact did so the very day prior to this last.

This man knows his shit inside out 👇🏽

A million million times this

Israeli drone hovering low overhead in Beirut. Very loud and unnerving. Am certain this is the real point of these drones; not reconnaissance but intimidation and demoralization

Blow after blow to the power of Iran and its allies and proxies in the region set the stage for US-Israel attacks apnews.com/article/iran...

This isn’t a “blunder”. The chaos IS the point

Translation of card from AlJadeed News: Israeli Channel 12 announces that attacks on Lebanon will go on for several days at the very least. We’re in for many sleepless nights like this one

Motherfuckers bombing Beirut now. Just woke up to the sound of very loud explosions.

Lol, no actually, lmao, at anyone who thinks there’s any daylight between the US and Israel

Bibi doing his Grima Wormtongue schtick for going on 4 decades

I’ve spent very little of my not-inconsiderable time on this planet not raging at or aching for or helplessly watching my people, or people I consider my own, being slaughtered en masse in the most senseless and brutal ways

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches. This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.

Seldom has a vassal state been so loyal to ANOTHER vassal of the actual superpower...

This is likely true. Israel does NOT want democracy in Iran. It certainly doesn’t want anyone who care about Iranian sovereignty and territorial integrity behind the wheel. x.com/tariqali_new...

The bombing is happening after we learned of progress in the nuclear talks. The lesson continues to be that you can never trust Americans. Any state threatened by the Americans will have concluded by now that their only safety is to develop nukes asap, surely?

BS. This is why Oman’s FM went on CBS News to explicitly revel that negotiations had achieved *unprecedented agreement* from the Iranians not to stockpile nuclear material — ensuring they’d never have a bomb. CNN is blatantly lying (what’s new)

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

Of course the first major casualties of the Israeli attack are children at a school in Iran. Of course

As former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett describe Turkey “as the new Iran” I’m wondering when it will be obvious that Israeli political culture cannot sustain itself without constantly creating new enemies.

cohosted a podcast with the great Leila Shami. We spoke to Razan Rashidi from The Syria Campaign about a lot but particularly about how acts of justice build trust in the state and how without it a culture of impunity takes over that can spiral off into retaliatory violence and acts of vengeance.

International law governing conflict isn’t just “at a breaking point.” It was intentionally destroyed to protect Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though as yet we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” Salar Abdoh on what happened in Iran www.equator.org/articles/the...