
Tony Badran
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Tony Badran
@AcrossTheBay
With Jazz and conversation. @tabletmag


"President Trump, more than anyone else, can play a decisive role in bringing this war to an end," Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told @npwcnn in an interview recorded in Beirut earlier today. He also urged for an immediate ceasefire.

Joe Kent is now "just asking questions" about whether the israelis assassinated Charlie Kirk, which explains why he did almost nothing about leftist terrorist networks since Kirk got assassinated. What a piece of shit.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi — who mediated the most recent nuclear talks— writes a piece in The Economist arguing the US “has lost control of its own foreign policy.”

I support the establishment of a strong Christian-Druze state serving as a homeland to which millions of displaced Lebanese Christians can return, along with Christian communities adjacent to it added, based on the 18th century coalition to replace the national pact of the 1920s, which has failed and will continue to do so.

The Great Gatsby may be the first great American Jewish novel, whether Fitzgerald knew it or not. Hemingway saw it clearly, and answered with one of the most antisemitic characters in American fiction. tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…


“Increasingly Iranians rage that their country, not the regime, is under attack. Support for foreign intervention has dwindled.” Nick Pelham explains why attitudes in Iran are changing economist.com/middle-east-an…


Imagine a self proclaimed “military expert” telling his followers that in all of the U.S. National Security Council, Joint Staff, CENTCOM, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), and JTF staff, they did not plan for scenarios in the Strait of Hormuz. Then imagine people still following him for “analysis.” Crazy world of overnight “X-perts”

And now we have three oil markets: Asia (Oman oil at $167), Brent ($113) and US (WTI $97)

The Iranian regime is “building leverage over time” even if “metrics” suggest Israel and the US are “winning the war”, Emile Hokayem, director of regional security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says.





It will be particularly gratifying when the US and/or Israel kill this animal, who, as commander of the IRGC force in Lebanon, played a direct role in the murder of Americans in Beirut.






