Nadim Shehadi نديم شحاده

"Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, these negotiations and any resulting arrangement should not give the Tehran regime a license to kill its own population or continue destabilizing the region." arab.news/mxxa4

@riachi_jean It would be a huge mistake to get Iran involved as the interlocutor for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

Iran, in its negotiations with the United States, is insisting that the outcome should go beyond a mere ceasefire, seeking broader guarantees and an end to the war in Lebanon. On this latter point, I fully agree provided that it is coupled with a demand for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, in exchange for its firm guarantee that Hezbollah will be permanently disarmed.

@JEK_Psych What an imagination you have, my child.

Nothing personal against Ms Arida but who thought this was an appropriate picture to go with that headline! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@habib_b @asadabukhalil Who represents the "opposite" side?

To recap, in Al Jazeera's 6 min on Lebanon today, vast amount of airtime goes to Israeli voices: 4 soundbites in total: its defense minister is heard twice, its army spokesperson and PM, plus numerous references to them by reporters/anchors. We hear nothing from the opposing side

Thread: Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's war on Lebanon is overwhelming Israel centric. Israeli voices dominate and critics or resistors of Israel are rarely heard. I've noticed this trend for a while &today is good example. 6 min were devoted to Lebanon in Newshour. Breakdown:

@MarioNawfal TTe greatest gift from Israel to Hizballah: instagram.com/reel/DWQ5YC-jz…

My worst nightmare for Lebanon is coming true, and I am beginning to seriously question my assumption that Israel does not want to annex Lebanese territory The Defense Minister's statement today that Israel will occupy a part of Southern Lebanon after the war is inexcusable How can they expect to get rid of Hezbollah, which was founded because of Israel's occupation of Lebanon, if their goal is to occupy Lebanon again?!

@rmslim @JohnKerry Some international humanitarian NGOs also played a nefarious role, with useful idiots manipulated by Syrian regime intelligence.

@rmslim And @JohnKerry too with his wife. Who organized these? How many more people died because of endorsement of Assad: our tame reformable tyrant and mass murderer?

She is just great. “The creature that there is now”.

@jradwan @BeirutCalling If anything, the "domination" plans have come from the Lebanese side with the PLO then Hizballah - but they failed!.

@BeirutCalling Have faith, they've been eyeing south Lebanon since their sorry state existed. Zachary Foster does an excellent job documenting this history. x.com/_ZachFoster/st…

The Lebanese armed forces have come under much criticism lately, often because its critics fail to understand the institution's real limitations. Here, I offer an alternative proposal that addresses its fears, but also shows that it can act, at Diwan: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

@BeirutCalling I am talking about the @nytimes journalists who wrote the article. Hope you had some sleep, it was a rough night.

@Confusezeus They have all the elements to make the job possible. But they’ve allowed arrogance, hubris, and ignorance to get in the way of their decisionmaking. We’re in the very final stages of a terribly destructive unilateralism, and I’m pretty sure they’re too foolish to realize it.

Trump appears, implicitly, to have accepted defeat, and his method of doing so is to prepare to leave the battle unilaterally, while subordinates invent new and allegedly secured war objectives to give him a way out. He may escalate to deescalate. nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…

Terrible news. Journalists should not be treated as combatants. Release her now!

It’d be good to tell Mr. Aragchi to stop selling this BS about Iran seeking a ceasefire in Lebanon as part of a grand bargain, when in fact Iran dragged Lebanon into this war in the first place. His ambassador is still in Beirut; maybe @LBpresidency can send him this message.

@JamilMouawad @eyeontheeast العجز عن حماية البلد و عدم استنكار الاحتلال من عصابة الكبتاغون.

العجز عن حماية البلد، لا يعني بالضرورة عدم استنكار احتلال البلد. فعلياً، عدم الاستنكار يساهم في تعزيز هذا العجز.

💡I'm placing a bet that Lebanon will make the electricity crisis 5x worse and economy 10x worse... and I'll tell you why: Any attempt to raise the tariff should not pass! The most simplistic solution for unqualified people would be to raise the tariff, that is 1. already high and just, and 2. penalises those who pay by making them pay for those who don't. Recently, board positions in the electricity regulator and utility were filled through political patronage, with limited to none electricity expertise. Appointing unqualified leadership is now going to worsen electricity issues and everyone is going to feel that. The most important factor is that electricity impacts the cost of everything. The war in Lebanon is looking to be longer than the regional war and the economy is at high risk of collapse. No increase in tariff should even be considered. This also comes at a time when the cabinet has worsened the cost of gasoline (and everything that needs to be transported) because of a ridiculous mis-calculated tax hike!

@BeirutCalling Because it ain't

It never occurs to Israel’s friends in Washington that Saudi Arabia may consider Israel a strategic rival in the region, much as it does Iran, and that Israeli hegemony is no less distasteful than Tehran’s, which is more likely to lead to some sort of balancing game.

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Avec son offensive terrestre, Israël prend le risque de la déstabilisation du Liban lopinion.fr/international/… “On a le sentiment que l'histoire se répète, et que l'on a tiré aucune leçon du passé », déplore Karim Emile Bitar, enseignant à Sciences Po Paris.” via @lopinion_fr

Read this. The false conventional wisdoms and The battle of ideas at the heart of Iran war By the Always excellent @Confusezeus | Arab News arabnews.com/node/2637873

@BeirutCalling @soliozel2 The army will be in a far more difficult position if it becomes a buffer to a buffer between Hizballah and Israeli occuption - similar to the PNA/Israel security arrangements.

@BeirutCalling @soliozel2 If anything the principle of disarming Hizballah will be more dofficult to implement if Israel remains in South Lebanon.