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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

29 days

“Let us just say that it would have been hard to convince anyone in the mid-1970s that Rafik Hariri would emerge as a…”

A friend of mine from Canada asked: “Please give me one piece of good news, even if it is fake.” There is no good news in what is happening in Lebanon right now so any optimism needs to be about what

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

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3 years

With ⁦ @nntaleb ⁩ in his natural element #Amioun

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I can’t imagine the media reaction if it was Trump instead of Biden dumping Afghanistan.

BDW

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This may become the most infamous — and devastating — press conference ever held by an American President.

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Six months today, we need the truth.

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Map of the most influential scholars of all times based on Wikipedia hits - Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Amioun along with Yuval Noah Harari only living ones. People in Kosba very upset, it is almost as great an honor for @nntaleb as the mention in @LOrientLeJour this morning.

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In Aounistan the whole tragedy of the port is that Badri Daher was arrested.

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Switching TV off @PaulaYacoubian is very clever in twisting arguments but I can’t listen to this anymore

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Merry Christmas from Beit Mery.

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Is Biden blaming the Afghans?

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What do #RWRI boys talk about?

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The reaction to Trump's declaration of #Jerusalem as a capital of Israel is more a reaction against #Trump himself than against the declaration. Here are three former presidents saying the same thing with no fuss to follow.

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The video we need to watch about the Beirut Blast. Peace to all its victims in Lebanon and Syria.

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@Confusezeus

3 years

An $80bn intelligence service can be replaced by any Kabul taxi driver.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

3 years

US intelligence agencies who said just 4 days ago that Kabul could fall in 90 days have revised the figure to 72 hours

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An apparition by @nntaleb in Beitmery

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1 year

Anyone remember Dastardly and Muttley? modeled after Shaker Jarawan a Lebanese flight instructor in New York 1912-1914.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

This is terrifying, the size of the Beirut explosion compared to other bombs and accidents.

How powerful was the Beirut blast?

Comparing the strength of the explosion to other events and destructive weapons

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@Confusezeus

3 years

Personal News: I am leaving New York and @LebAmUniv at the end of January and will be between Beirut and London as of then.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

This is hilarious

Nancy Pelosi

@SpeakerPelosi

7 years

Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts .

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Devastated to hear that Rosemary Hollis has died, she formed and led a great team at Chatham House.

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7 years

"Foregone Conclusionism" explained - deserves a hashtag: spot the #foregoneconclusionism

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5 years

After yesterday @realDonaldTrump should run for elections in the Middle East, he would win hands down.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Very useful background to the "negligence" that caused the tragedy in Lebanon by @glcarlstrom of @TheEconomist

“It’s unbelievable negligence even on the scale of the perennially negligent government”—Beirut...

Also on the daily podcast: an update to The Economist’s excess-death tracker and the trade-offs of a return to work

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1 year

Shame on Europe & USA - please refrain from preaching us for at least 50 years.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

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10 years

Disagreeing on Saudi-Arabia with @nntaleb looking very threatening, please help! http://t.co/vCfk4xL2fz

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@Confusezeus

2 years

Thank you USA & same to you.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

2 years

Jad Ghosn also said Israel and America committed assassinations to frame Hizballah. It would have been ok if had stood on a Aounist list or a Hizballah one but not as a fake ‘Thawra’ infiltrator.

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@MonikaBorgmann

2 years

Glad that Jad Ghosn didn't win... Will remember always his comment: If we admit that Hizbollah is killing, we can't negotiate with them anymore...

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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١٧ تشرين تكملة ل ١٤ آذار و حركة تصحيحيّة ضدّ زعمائها. ضدّ التوافق مع ح��ب الله و جماعة سوريّة و فلولها. حتى الثورجيّه المزيّفين متل شربل نحّاس و جاد غصن خسروا. كان اشرف لو ما انتحلوا الصفة و نزلوا مع عون.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

Nationalism is a mental illness, the more educated the afflicted person the more serious is the case. Those with a higher degrees could be incurable.

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10 months

Thank god for podcasts and audiobooks. Will be off screens for a few weeks after eye surgery. Happy New Year.

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Today is March 14

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2 years

Seriously?

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4 years

"May you never be hostage to an incompetent and corrupt leadership that can neither do war nor peace but can leave you in limbo forever."

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

5 years

If the Caravans stop coming to the Souk no amount of reshuffling and restructuring of the Souk will revive it.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

This is what Meghan called normal life like every other couple :-)

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@gregkellyusa

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Harry and Meghan’s “crib” in Santa Barbara. If they had 15 million for this ESTATE, they surely had enough cash to hire some security guards/off duty cops. #meghanmarkle

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

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Whipping Boy

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BBC News - Syria war: Lawyers submit first war crimes cases against Assad

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4 years

Devastated

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

In Lebanon the political process was destroyed in 2007 at Doha. Governments of “national unity” have no responsibility and no accountability. Politicians are never saints nor geniuses - it is the process that creates democracy and curbs their power.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Lokman Slim’s culture war with Hezbollah should not be forgotten after assassination

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@Confusezeus

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In a nutshell Israel lost the war in Gaza and the terms of capitulation are being negotiated. 1/3

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@Confusezeus

1 year

كيف رجل سياسي بيضرب صحافي ببرنامج تلڤزيوني على الهواء على عينك يا تاجر. و بيرجع عالاستيديو بدال ما يتوقّف و يروح عالحبس؟ #صار_الوقت الاعتذار مش كافي .

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

9 years

.... and written by two of my colleagues at the @FletcherSchool

NAWAF OBAID

@NawafEObaid

9 years

Must be most misleading, factually incorrect & ideological driven OpEd I have read on #Saudi in #US press!Hilarious!

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4 years

Christie's is holding an auction to help rebuild Beirut's cultural scene | Grazia Middle East

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

7 years

#OnlyInLebanon do you get a Bishop and two sheikhs discussing Christmas on TV interspersed with wine adverts. #MerryChristmas not #HappyHolidays

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1 year

Heavy rain in Beirut, no Israeli invasion today.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

This is not surprising from Crisis Group but no thanks, we've fallen into that trap before and it led us to where we are.

Crisis Group

@CrisisGroup

4 years

. @CrisisGroup proposes an "all hands on deck" approach to Lebanon's crisis. This requires Hizbollah's rivals and foreign enemies to accept that there is seemingly no way to advance a reform program without its cooperation

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@Confusezeus

3 years

If it was an #Israeli strike that triggered the #BeirutBlast then those blocking the investigation now would be the ones asking for an International Investigation.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

2 years

Lebanon’s collapse can also be explained by the constant battering the country has experienced over a long period. The chronology is astounding. One wonders how many countries could have survived such a systematic succession of crises.

How Lebanon collapsed into a state of paralysis

Once upon a time, perhaps near the end of the last century, a well-meaning bureaucrat was sold on the idea of a world where everyone — and he or she did mean everyone — would own their own home, no

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

Can’t stop re-reading this piece by @makramrabah about a truly wise lady, an amazing family, and Lokman a friend who will never be forgotten.

Lokman’s wise mother - Nowlebanon

On the day marking ten months since publicist Lokman Slim’s murder, historian Makram Rabah pays homage to Salma Mershak, Lokman’s mother and first mentor.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

5 years

On another planet this would start a war, here below on planet earth we were already at an unending war with one side led by General Soleimani.

Margherita Stancati 🌸

@margheritamvs

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This is the kind of move that starts wars — President Trump authorized strike that killed Iran’s Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi paramilitary commander in Baghdad via @WSJ

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This is #antifragile according to @nntaleb over dinner (and, naturally, a fight) in NYC.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

I am deeply offended by @JoeBiden using ‘inshallah’ in that manner.

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@Confusezeus

1 year

It should be a coalition to fight the IRGC.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

@nntaleb

1 year

Looks like France is going to have (more) problems. "Macron Calls for Coalition to Fight Against Hamas". This is not the same as with ISIS. It elicits v. different reactions. Fighting ISIS does not cause antisemitic terrorism. This does. Does he know it? Utterly clueless.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

2 years

The US barely aware of the game let alone being in it.

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This is the most interesting photo that I’ve seen this month. The agendas playing out between Putin and Turkic world are fascinating — and also consequential for the American interest. Unfortunately, the US is barely in the game.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

What’s the point of owning half the world and being disgraced in your own city? #Tripoli

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@Confusezeus

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Supporters of the Syrian regime should just shut up about Gaza. They do far more harm than good.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

I wish you had English subtitles for clips like these. Your father is greatly missed.

Ronnie Chatah

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4 years

‘Arafat then Assad then Nasrallah’ @mohamad_chatah

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3 years

Just as in 2006, I think it is safe to declare a Hamas victory whatever the final outcome of the battle. Hamas’s victory is not over Israel but over its internal rivals Fatah and others parties.

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@Confusezeus

4 months

In the fascist republic of Federal Lebanon I will be a Dhimmi and blocked.

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3 years

Lebanon lost two wonderful people who will be greatly missed, the publisher Farès Sassine my compatriot from Zahleh and the writer Jabbour Douaihy. Too much sadness for one day.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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An explanation of how Hizballah was a direct cause of Lebanon's ruin even if it is not the "architect of the system". Calling it a "guarantor" is the same as calling the Mafia a "protector".

Tobias Schneider

@tobiaschneider

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While Hezbollah was not the architect of Lebanon's ruinous economic system, with growing reach, it became first a happy participant and eventually its guarantor. More profoundly, its separate role a regionally active militia was rooted in and required continued state weakness. /1

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@Confusezeus

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@justinamash Every president who bypassed congress by executve orders woul be in breach in that case.

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@Confusezeus

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Breaking News: latest analysis at the hairdresser yesterday: « Surely Israel is not going to attack while we’re preparing for the Beitmery Festival this weekend. »

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@Confusezeus

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حدن لاحظ انٌو السياسيين و الاعلاميين و حتّى الثوّار مرّات بيقلبوا عالنحوي لمًّا بدّن يكذّبوا؟

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Another attempt at discrediting the White Helmets and their work in Syria. @joshua_landis should be more selective before spreading pro-Assad regime disinformation.

Joshua Landis

@joshua_landis

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UK gov contractor called InCoStrat boasted of building a massive “network of over 1600 journalists and key influencers with an interest in #Syria .” It claimed responsibility for creating the Syria narrative: "ISIS & Assad - two sides of the same coin"

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Which side are you on?

Failed state or battered state — the narratives dividing Lebanon

Two parallel narratives about Lebanon prevail: One is about the country being a failed state and the other is about a state that has been battered until it failed. According to the first narrative,

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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I found myself sitting next to #bannon at a dinner in NYC in 2019. I trashed his speech he laughed and answered back. Someone who enjoys a good argument.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Seriously? more than Iran, Syria and Saddam's Iraq?

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@RamiKhouri

4 years

If the US, Israel & UAE plan a strategic agenda for the ME, we are all in trouble and should build underground shelters now. These 3, with perhaps Saudi Arabia as apprentice trouble-maker, are responsible for the turmoil in the region more than any other combination of states.

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@Confusezeus

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Lebanon urgently needs @Starlink

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@Confusezeus

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في ناس سألوني انو اذا كان العدو الصهيوني مهزوم و خايف من الدمار يللي رح يجي من المقاومة. وانو الجليل محرر وحيفا ساقطة عسكريا والمنشآت اعتبروها مدمرة خلص. ليش السفارات عم بيقولوا لرعاياهن انو يتركوا لبنان و ما عم بيقولولن يتركوا الكيان الصهيوني المؤقت والبائد لا محالة؟

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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On assassinations in Lebanon @rchatah & @Jad_Ghosn who exposes himself as the most absurd conspiracy theorist insisting Israel killed people to frame Hizballah. I lost all respect for him.

Ronnie Chatah : Narratives from the post 8th and 14th of March...

To support the channel: www.patreon.com/jadghosnRonnie Chatah, the son of late finance minister Mohamad Chatah assassinated in December of 2013, is the host ...

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

2 years

Proud of my daughter @lemmanour

Lemma Shehadi

@lemmanour

2 years

Thrilled to be selected for this fellowship and grant, to report on reforestation in the isolated Akkar region of northern Lebanon, after devastating wildfires across the Eastern Mediterranean in 2021.

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@Confusezeus

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“The victim’s self-confidence is eroded and a combination of physical and psychological manipulation leaves them blaming themselves, feeling inadequate and guilty, and forgetting what healthy alternatives exist.”

Lebanon is not resilient, it is traumatized

How does a whole society become submissive, overtaken by apathy and unable to react or protest, while exhibiting signs of confusion, defeatism and incoherence? Lebanon is not a resilient country, as

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

HAPPY NEW YEAR & Love to all.

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@Confusezeus

1 year

It is remarkable how the same people who dismissed international justice when it came to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, are now swearing by it when it is about Riad Saleme.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

The #BeirutBlast is the intersection of international Mafia with international Terrorism and tyrannical regimes. It cannot be banalized as local neglect & corruption, It is a global issue.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

My take on the #Afghanistan fiasco. "American bureaucracy is a hydra-like monster; every time you cut one head it grows many others, and any attempts at reducing it create even more layers."

America: How can smart people be so dumb?

We are again in a bipolar world — not that of the Cold War, but a psychological one. At one pole are the triumphalism, ecstasy and jubilation of America’s enemies; at the other are denial, disbelief,

www.arabnews.com

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@Confusezeus

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If nation states were great to start with, why do we need to make them great again? What we are seeing is the end of the nation state, not the beginning.

The nation state may soon be a thing of the past

In 50 years, future historians will look back on our times with a different perspective. What may seem to us as the rise of nationalism and populism with an authoritarian twist will have reached an

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Happy Centennial Lebanon

Lebanon’s instability a reflection of the regional order

Lebanon at 100 is a country in distress. Jean-Yves Le Drian, the foreign minister of France, the country that declared Lebanon a state on Sept. 1, 1920, has now announced that it might even

www.arabnews.com

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

5 years

An event like the assassination of #QassemSoleimani provokes so many so called independent experts to reveal their true colours in an almost irrational and emotional outburst.

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Hamas did not win against Israel its decisive victory is against the PLO. Civilians are the victims. 3/3

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@Confusezeus

7 years

The "useful idiots" of today as bad as they were described by Lenin a century ago.

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@Confusezeus

2 years

اذا سرقوا البلد هوّ و مفلّس، شو رح يعملوا لمّا يصير عندو غاز؟

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@Confusezeus

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بالفيديو: رشا سليم في أول تعليق على تصفية شقيقها... | النهار

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@Confusezeus

4 years

Lebanon is now transformed into a Vampire State sucking up the savings of its depositors.

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@Confusezeus

4 years

"Ayyash’s conviction helps confirm what the world is increasingly recognizing—that Hizballah and its members are not defenders of Lebanon as they claim to be but constitute a terrorist organization dedicated to advancing Iran’s malign sectarian agenda."

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

How do we estimate the "ransom" that Lebanon as a hostage pays as a cost to the economy over the last 20 years. This can only be estimates because some of it is opportunity cost and lost revenue. Help is appreciated in putting $ values.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

5 years

Mandatory listening to all lefty useful idiots and Assad apologists with ⁦ @gatnash ⁩ & ⁦ @joeyayoub ⁩

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@Confusezeus

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Lebanon's public sector wage bill distribution - the security sector is the problem:

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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Hizballah and its allies paralyzed the country at every step until they obtained full control with the election of General Michel Aoun as president in 2016. The country was held hostage for months on several occasions until the other side agreed to compromise after compromise.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

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Received my @Starlink equipment will be connecting from rural Greece.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

@nntaleb

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

4 years

Hizballah's control of Beirut's Port and Airport are a large part of the problem. Smuggling is a drain on the economy and on government revenue. In May 2008 the government tried to remove an officer at the airport, Hizballah's 'Black Shirts' attacked and terrorized the city.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

1 year

Israel is finally integrated in the region.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

1 year

Among Israel's 146 criminal investigations since Oct 7 for speech offenses: A man posted on Instagram “The eye weeps for the residents of Gaza.” "40 minutes later, 20 police officers came to his house to arrest him for supporting a terrorist organization."

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

I guess the democrats are now believers in Maximum Pressure policies - with Russia but not yet with Iran.

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

1 year

The West should listen to its friends not its enemies.

Exclusive Op-Ed: Stop the Gaza war and implement the Arab Peace Initiative | The National

Veteran Arab statesmen call for an end to spiral of bloodshed and a return to meaningful diplomacy

www.thenationalnews.com

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

7 years

Now all that remains is to set the goals!

Hassan I. Hassan

@hxhassan

7 years

U.S. troops not leaving Syria until goals accomplished: Haley

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

2 years

Forever puzzled by the question “Why does the US make deals with its enemies and abandon its friends?” Here is a possible answer.

US prefers to deal with the wolf rather than the lamb

Why does the US make deals with its enemies and abandon its friends? The answer may lie in the fable of “The Wolf and The Lamb,” in which a big bad wolf wants to devour an innocent little lamb. Such

www.arabnews.com

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Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

@Confusezeus

3 years

Tragedy of Beirut, last bastion of the true Levant @arabnews

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