Mary Draper

@lrozen Do you think that Netanyahu and Trump wanted them to succeed? They could have brought experts in if this was a genuine negotiation.

Quite apparent listening to Witkoff interviews in weeks since that he did not understand Iran nuclear issues and was obsessed with the wrong things and he and Kushner needed an expert on their team

@Yasmincameback @xede55 @davereaboi I know that the Islamic Republic is terrible and I am not lecturing you. I hope for a better life for all Iranians just like you.

@DraperMP @xede55 @davereaboi Are you aware that the Islamic Republic butchered 43,000+ innocent protesters in January? That they RAPE women in prison, remove their uteros, burn their bodies, and chop off their limbs after?? You're not Iranian and don't get to lecture us. Enjoy ur uneducated retired life.

Imagine you’re paying nearly $100k a year to send your kid to Emory, and this is her teacher.

@Yasmincameback @xede55 @davereaboi The Pahlavi family has been living in the US for decades on money they took from Iran. Have you forgotten Savak? A woman living in the US isn’t threatening ordinary Iranians. Challenge the ones who are living in Iran.

@DraperMP @xede55 @davereaboi 1/ I'm Iranian, I've lived under these people almost my whole life. The family members of the Islamic Republic are threatening ordinary Iranians on a daily basis. They are their advisors and "ear" on the ground. Now they are holding guns on the streets.

@Yasmincameback @xede55 @davereaboi Maybe you could consider the benefits of not laying the sins of the father on the children. You don’t have to respect or like her to acknowledge that she came legally & earned a salary, paid taxes, & didn’t commit any crimes except being born.

@xede55 @DraperMP @davereaboi Her father was a terrorist. While their dad was butchering Iranians on the streets, this woman was living in the country they call “The Big Satan” with our money. She’s still part of the system. No respect for her at all.

@dilanesper Her desperation to become and remain important is easier to understand. There is a lesson here about not putting people on pedestals.

Let's be blunt. You are a young woman who wants the UK to fend off the Nazis, and Winston Churchill rapes you in 1940. Do you come forward? People have this great desire to trash victims and say they have to come forward immediately, but Huerta's dilemma is easy to understand.

@xede55 @davereaboi No. She is not. I would respect her if this was a real video.

@DraperMP @davereaboi She is wearing a face mask and is in mourning for her father. Have some respect

@LarryOConnor He always demonstrates that he has no sense of humor.

The last, serious journalist in Washington, ladies and gentlemen.

@yudapearl Why has the Jewish faculty at UCLA allowed itself to be been divided by differences over current Israeli policy? It would be so much better if there was a reconciliation that allowed for a spectrum of views.

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies was deliberately staffed almost exclusively with antizionist Ex-Jewish professors. But your experience is shared by Jewish students in History, Anthropology and other hijacked departments. It takes only one loud Zionophobe to hijack an academic department.

@SusanDReynolds Almost as bad.

“San Francisco’s Cesar Chavez Day Parade has been renamed to the Dolores Huerta Parade and Festival.” sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

@marcthiessen Why should we deport them? They haven’t committed any crimes and they are here legally.

Why haven’t we deported them yet?

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

A lot of people say that, after this war, Hormuz will no longer matter and Iran will lose this deterrent because Gulf states will invest in pipelines and other infrastructure to carry oil and gas to the Red Sea, but I'm pretty skeptical. Just having a quick look at this, it seems that building the necessary infrastructures would cost well over $100 billion. But those infrastructures would only be used at a fraction of their capacity most of the time, because once the war is over it would be much cheaper to export oil and gas by sea through Hormuz. Moreover, unless Iran is completely eliminated as a threat (in which case there would be no point in making those investments in the first place), the pipeline and other infrastructure would be vulnerable in the Gulf where the oil and gas would still be coming from. I'm curious what experts on the energy market think, perhaps @Rory_Johnston or @JavierBlas can share their thoughts, but I have a hard time believing such huge investments, as opposed to adding some redundancy, would make sense financially.

@sleepyamel @loffredojeremy I don't know why you find this so objectionable. He helped to create the Abraham Accords & he & Witkoff have talked to Hamas in ways that the Biden admin folks didn't. I dislike Trump's Israel policies & this war but I don't hate the messenger.

@DraperMP @loffredojeremy “Has the ability to talk to the Arabs” unless he speaks Arabic wtf is this supposed to mean

Sometimes I think about how Jared Kushner, who had Netanyahu staying in his wealthy Jewish family's childhood home during U.S. visits, ended up marrying the daughter of a man who became a two-term U.S. president.

@Haqiqatjou That is mad conspiracy thinking. Israel has a strong incentive to keep Christian religious sites which bring in many tourist dollars in more peaceful times.

Israel is planning to destroy both the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and al-Aqsa mosque via false flag attacks, which they will blame on Iranian missiles. There are two key reasons for this. First, Israel's long-term strategy is weaken their Muslim neighbors by creating constant conflict between Muslims and Christians, as well as constant sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shia (which is why they fund incitement from Christian Zionists and Sectarian Wahhabis). Destroying the Church will help foment Muslim-Christian conflict, and destroying the mosque will help foment Sunni-Shia conflict. Second Israel intends to build a third temple on the ruins of the mosque, which they believe will function to summon their messiah (which, for Christians and Muslims is the antichrist).

@DanBurmawy When the late Lady Cochrane gave a party in her house in Achrafieh for a group I was traveling with, she invited the elites of all groups. It was obvious to me that they mixed regularly. You must have lived a more sheltered life there.

Lebanon is a perfect model of what happens when two civilizations share geography without sharing a political philosophy. It’s a small country, same language, same food, same weather, same ancient history. No walls. No checkpoints. But each community, Christian and Muslim, lives behind invisible civilizational lines. They don’t mix in political life, educational life, or social life. These lines have existed since the Ottomans, and they hardened after the civil war. The Christian areas built their society around a European-influenced political culture: secular schools, mixed-gender social norms, individual rights, and a relatively open civic space. The Muslim areas built "Islamic society". The result is not “diversity," but dual sovereignty inside one state. In 2023, the country literally split into two time zones during daylight-saving time, one Muslim and one Christian. Neighbors who live in the same building had different times. It was an honest reflection of two separate civilizational logics refusing to follow the same clock. Lebanon is a failed state because it tried to fit two incompatible political visions under one flag. The West is repeating Lebanon’s experiment but pretending it will end differently. There is no historical precedent for that working.

@RnaudBertrand Americans can feel the same contempt too.

I can't find words strong enough to express the amount of contempt Europeans should feel for this guy 👇 I started writing a long explanation why, but I deleted it because at this stage it's just so painfully obvious. You guys know.

@justchangingun Iranian women don't dress like this. This is fake.

This is Ali Larijani’s daughter. She just got back to Iran from the U.S., where she used to impart her “wisdom” to American students at Emory University, Georgia.

@LydiaMoynihan What could go wrong is persecuting people based on their relationships. If you really care about fairness and justice, you will accept that she is here legally & qualified for her job. The Post should investigate Netanyahu’s son. He is useless.

"Zahra is a niece of Ali Larijani and works as a professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also director of a unit that analyses risk of “complex technological systems” including commercial nuclear plants and reactors." What could go wrong?