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@behaviorben

Another Voice in the Noise.

New York, NY Beigetreten Kasım 2015
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Tuvia Gering 陶文亚@GeringTuvia·
Thread. The Gulf Research Center (GRC), a prominent Saudi think tank founded and chaired by businessman Dr. Abdulaziz Sager, contends that China’s 2023 success in brokering the Saudi-Iranian detente has soured into a failure of accountability. The thread argues that Beijing’s empty rhetoric fails to bridge the gap between its aspirations for regional leadership and its refusal to take concrete steps against Iran’s continued aggression, which openly violates both the spirit of the detente and international law.
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Gulf Research Center - مركز الخليج للأبحاث@Gulf_Research

On March 10, 2023, under Chinese auspices in Beijing, the resumption of relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Iran was announced after a rupture dating back to 2016. This marked a major diplomatic event that attracted wide regional and international attention and demonstrated the most prominent success of Chinese diplomacy in the Middle East to date, to the extent that the mediation raised Western concerns about Beijing’s growing political role in the region.

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Ben Green
Ben Green@BenGreenJeru·
Brendan O’Neill absolutely nails it again. 🎯🎯🎯 Not mentioned and totally relevant too: Palestinian courts can impose death sentences for selling land to Israelis.
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Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸
Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸@alexplitsas·
🚨🚨🚨 I can confirm that my friend Shelly Kittleson was abducted and may have taken hostage in Baghdad by Khatib Hezbollah. Whereabouts and condition unknown. I am her designated U.S. point of contact. If you have information please provide to law enforcement and send me a DM.
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Guy Elster גיא אלסטר
US Secretary of Defense Hegseth: The coming days will be decisive in the war with Iran, and Tehran cannot do anything about it
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@LizHurra Perhaps they need a little humiliation to overpower their unwillingness to ever take the fight to Hezbollah.
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Amit Segal
Amit Segal@AmitSegal·
Netanyahu at the Cabinet meeting: The United States is threatening to deal forcefully with the Strait of Hormuz issue – I hope they succeed. Iran must be stripped of this switch. After the war, we need to bypass this by building pipelines from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean. We are forming alliances with Arab countries that speak about joining forces with us in combat. In the past, I had secret conversations with Arab leaders. I told them – the moment Iran can, they will conquer you and topple your kingdoms. Back then, they didn’t fully understand it — today they do.
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Colin Wight
Colin Wight@colwight·
Israel’s new death penalty law is widely described as exclusively targeting Palestinians. That’s not just an overstatement it’s wrong. In Israel proper it formally applies to anyone committing a lethal terrorist act aimed at negating Israel’s existence. This includes Israeli Arab citizens on identical terms to Jews. The military court track applies only to West Bank Palestinians, but that reflects existing jurisdictional reality, not ethnic targeting in the text. Settlers, as Israeli citizens, are legally subject to Israeli civil courts even though they are in the West Bank. This is the internationally recognised position for an occupying power’s own civilians. Claims that thousands of already-convicted Palestinians face execution are simply false; the law is prospective only and won’t be applied retrospectively, even to 7/10 terrorists. The legitimate criticism is that the law’s net effect will fall disproportionately on West Bank Palestinians. Moreover, the military track carries a harsher mandatory sentence than the civil one, and it operates against a backdrop of chronically under-prosecuted settler violence. But that last point is an enforcement failure within Israel’s civil court system not a jurisdictional anomaly, or a function of this new law. That said it’s a real and well-documented issue, with many in Israel’s security establishment describing organised settler violence as terrorism. That asymmetry is absolutely worth criticising clearly. But it’s a criticism that’s likely to get lost as the more lurid claims take the attention.
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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911
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Mark Dubowitz
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz·
Ukraine is fighting an American enemy while generating battlefield innovations that protect the American warfighter. Ukraine and Israel are the only allies doing both at scale. Too many on the right and left are blind to what these model allies contribute to U.S. security.
Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️@dim0kq

Ukraine isn't just surviving - it's rewriting the rules of modern warfare. The grandson of Gen. Patton went to the front lines and came back stunned by what he saw. I really recommend you read this. History in the making. kyivindependent.com/inside-ukraine…

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Reuben Rodriguez
Reuben Rodriguez@ReubenR80027912·
I have boundless disdain for the defeatism of liberal media & pro-Russia demoralization of online right The world ex-US is so many Lilliputians; effective only b/c our massive advantages/ability to crush them are self restrained by a confused secularized Protestantism (1/2)
Quetzal Writes 🇺🇲| 🇬🇹@QuetzalThoughts

Back in 2020 I remarked how easily exploitable Progressive narratives are by foreign intelligences to create psyop campaigns. Now the evidence is undeniable. We need domestic antibodies to how the weak-willed and stupid react to such blatant propaganda

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Bentalope@behaviorben·
💯 There are legit critiques of the war, but the NYT running its 10th front-page story on a missile that may have hit a school in an IRGC compound in February is a form of madness. It’s how you’d cover a war if you wanted readers to lose all perspective and see our enemies as victims.
Gummi@gummibear737

Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza They create impossible standards in terms of: -Zero Casualties -Zero Economic Disruption -Zero Uncertainty -Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission -Zero Collateral Damage And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it….same script as Gaza…the bad guys have no agency and it’s actually our fault Day 32 of the Iran war: -degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks -the Supreme Leader is gone…and his replacement is s vegetable -all the top leadership is gone…in fact, we don’t even know who’s in charge Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralization propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click This isn’t responsible skepticism It’s weakness… And you’ll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out This is madness

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Fair point. Though relations were of practical value when they both had an interest in how Assad’s Syria turned out and needed to talk regularly so they didn’t shoot each other by mistake. I still think the US is the prime driver of Bibi’s current stance, esp w/ Russia clearly in Iran’s corner.
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Maddyboy
Maddyboy@Bigchungus42690·
@behaviorben @NadavPollak Not true, Israle maintained good relations with Russia even during Joe Biden, in general the two states have decent relations no matter the politics
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Nadav Pollak
Nadav Pollak@NadavPollak·
I've never understood Bibi's policy regarding Ukraine. He knows that #Russia is working with #Iran. He knows on more than one occasion that Russia did things that raised the risk for Israel. Ukraine can be a great partner of Israel on so many issues. Is Russia considered such a threat in his mind? Odd
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh

👀 Zelenskyy tells @BarakRavid he hasn’t spoken to IsraeliPM Netanyahu in more than 2 years.

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Daniel Lambert
Daniel Lambert@dlLambo·
Israel is the first state in history to legislate a death sentence that applies only to one ethnic group. There's a reason nobody has ever done this. It's a depth of evil beyond humanity itself.
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Open Source Intel
Open Source Intel@Osint613·
Channel 14 says it obtained an exchange among Iranian leaders: President Pezeshkian: “I want to be involved in the negotiations with the U.S. Without a quick deal, our entire economy will collapse in 3 weeks.” IRGC chief Vahidi: “That’s exactly why you can’t be involved. You’ll give up everything for a deal.” After the call ended, the report says the Iranian president told his companions he feels like a ‘hostage’, “I’m unable to resign, I cannot make my own decisions, all I can do is read from a script I’m given” Channel 14 concludes its report by saying that the IRGC is effectively running the country now.
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Danielle Haas
Danielle Haas@DanielleHaas01·
Honestly, you can't have it both ways. Condeming human rights NGOs when they take positions you don't like, and quoting them when they take positions you do. As someone who edited @hrw products for 14 years, I wouldn't quote them on anything at all. That's b/c I know the work isn't consistently fact checked; there's no consistent methodology; & that they're still burying fabricated research. Not academia. Not journalism. And not honest. Don't waste your time. @hrw @KenRoth @ynetnews #autoplay" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ynetnews.com/article/rk0mqw…
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