Irfan Khan

Passing Geniuses.

lol Mamdani not rich enough for the NY Times

Casemiro...

🚨🗣 Bruno Fernandes opens up on training-ground clashes with former United coach Mitchell van der Gaag: "I had a lot of fights with him about that. People already understood that, it’s not in a mean way, I just want to win. If I don’t put that into training, if I’m not that guy, the other ones will probably drop a bit the intensity. "I know certain players, they look at me and need to see me alive to understand that I’m in the game. Sometimes I need to be that guy that puts the energy, that shouts, that does things for the other ones to become better because I can do that and still focus." [@goal]

Something dangerous is happening in Gaza. Over the past months, we have been noticing a clear rise in cancer cases, especially breast and uterine cancers. But this is not just about disease. This is about a system collapsing around patients, leaving them with nowhere to go. Two days ago, a woman came to our clinic. F.J. 32 years old. We suspected masses in both of her breasts, different sizes. The ultrasound confirmed it. What remained was the biopsy, the one step that could define her future. It costs 800 Shikel = 250$ For most people, this is a medical step. But for her, it is a decision between life and nothing. She lives in a tent. Her husband is injured in both legs, with metal plates, and depends on ongoing physiotherapy, which we provide at the clinic. They have nothing left. For them, this amount is impossible. In a place like this, illness is not just painful. It is financially selective. Sometimes, death becomes the cheaper option. In cases like this, I usually try to find a way. I contacted a colleague who works with an international medical program, a program that used to cover the costs of more than 100 patients every month. I asked him to add her case urgently. He paused,then he told me: “The program stopped… a few days ago.” Why? Because the organization discovered fraud and theft by a private hospital that had been receiving more than half a million dollars every month for multiple projects (including pathology services). Because of greed, thousands of patients are now left without care. As if this people needed more suffering. As if it was not enough to lose homes, safety, dignity. Now even their illness.. is being traded. And this is only one story. How many women are now sitting in tents, feeling a lump in their body, and waiting? Waiting without diagnosis. Waiting without treatment. Waiting for pain to become something irreversible. How many will lose their chance at early treatment? How many will reach hospitals only when it is too late? How many will live with permanent disability, because something simple was delayed? And even when treatment exists outside Gaza, patients cannot reach it. Because the Israeli army continues to restrict and block medical evacuations. People who could be treated, are trapped. Cancer patients. Children. The wounded. Waiting for permission that may never come. This is not one failure. This is a chain of failures. A siege that limits medicine. A system that collapses. Corruption that steals what little remains. And in the middle of it all patients .. Waiting. This is not a story you will see on most news channels. Because it does not fit a narrative. But this is our reality: A place where people are left in tents, left in poverty, left in hunger, left under siege, and now .. left to die from diseases this war has helped create. We may be able to help this one woman. We may find a way for her. But the question that does not leave me is this: How many others will never reach us? How many names will we never hear? And how many lives will quietly disappear because no one was there to pay the cost? #WoundedGaza

Ben-Gurion: 'We have ancient roots in the Levant, but we are Europeans. We came [to Palestine] as Europeans.' Jabotinsky: 'The [Ashkenazi] Jews, thank God, have nothing in common with the Near East.' Herzl: (writing to Cecil Rhodes): 'Zionism is a colonial venture!'

Do you know how EVIL you have to be to do this to another human being?!

WARNING! I frankly do not know what kind of evil and inhumanity this video depicts, but it shakes you to the core. It appears a dead Palestinian man, probably murdered, is lying on the street, and a group of Israelis essentially torture his body while laughing. They slowly run him over with their, going back and forth over his body. No words.

The MP who had received the most donations from people or companies most associated with private healthcare was.....Wes Streeting. Our NHS isn't safe in the hands of this Labour Health Secretary.

A 68-year-old Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank has been beaten to death by Israeli soldiers. A grandmother. Beaten to death. By terrorists armed by the UK/US/EU.

Raw GPS data shows that 44 foreign-registered cellphones were in the immediate area of Charlie Kirk on that sad day: 16 Israeli, 13 Chinese, 12 Russian, and 3 Iranian. Our system just alerted us that 4 of the 16 Israeli devices that were in Utah that day, have arrived in Islamabad last evening, at the Islamabad Serena Hotel'

“I feel like I have to hide who I am, in order to maintain my safety.” Christie Pavey, a Christian resident of Jerusalem, describes fear, harassment and being prevented from accessing holy sites. Watch the full episode on MEE YouTube channel youtu.be/cdXgSDUmF1g

This is rather strange behaviour.

🚨🚨BREAKING -- UK arms firms have been caught trying to illegally ship weaponry to Israel through Belgium. The shipment contained "sensitive military equipment" including "lasers, sights, fire control systems, and parts for fighter jets". It has now been seized by the Belgian authorities following an alert from Declassified, @Vredesactie, & @palyouthmvmt. 👉rtl.be/actu/regions/l…

UK arms firms caught trying to illegally ship weaponry to the israelis via Belgium —thanks to @declassifiedUK the munitions have been seized

🇺🇸🇵🇰 CONFIRMED! The White House reviewed and approved a social media post by Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, which explicitly stated that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire agreement. However, after Israel bombed Lebanon, the Trump administration backtracked, claiming that Lebanon had not been included in the deal.

I realise the tweet was misinterpreted by all sides. Here is an adjusted version: ------------------------ Just an observation on Pakistani mediation: Trump's statement on the ceasefire with Iran refers to both the Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif AND the Army Chief of Staff Asim Munir. I have never read Trump thanking Macron AND the French Chief of Staff for diplomacy. Nor have I ever read statements by Macron thanking the German Chancellor AND the German army chief of staff for diplomacy. Nor have I ever read the German Chancellor thanking the UK Prime Minister AND the UK Chief of Staff for diplomacy. The reason the chief of staff is never thanked in public statements by state leaders is because authority is implicitly recognised as being embodied in the elected official. The elected official (often the leader of the nation) is chosen by the nation's people, and therefore thanking that elected official is the equivalent of thanking the nation. But Pakistan is built different. In Pakistan, the Army Chief of Staff is the leader of the nation (not the elected official). The Army Chief of Staff is king and the 'elected' officials are his diplomats and administrators. The Army Chief of Staff is THE administrator, THE diplomat, THE mediator, and ultimate decision-maker. Sisi in Egypt merged the two offices of President and Chief of Staff, assuming the position of an "elected" President to maintain the pretence of a nation run by popular mandate (not military authority). Pakistan however is built different. No pretence is made or needed. The official is thanked out of respect for the office that technically should have the authority. The Chief of Staff is thanked for having deployed the real authority.

@jalalayn @mehdirhasan @thinking_muslim Actually, if you look at current Geopolitics especially in the ME this has aged incredibly well. The dynamics in the ME are redefined. Then, if you look at US politics you're seeing a rise of Anti-Zionist candidates. Aipac being ostracised and MAGA basically imploding.

Dear brother Mehdi, I appreciate your work, but I find your blind support for the Democrats somewhat alarming. The above message is pretty disingenuous to say the least. The captions are taken from my interview on @thinking_muslim with Sami Hamdi, in which he made an ethical case for voting against genocide. In 2024, the moral imperative was to vote against the Biden/Harris administration, which armed, supported, gave diplomatic cover and did everything in their power to prosecute the bloodbath in Gaza. My guest went out of his way to point out that there would never be a ‘better of the two evils’, and that we had to organise against Trump and what he would do during his tenure. At no stage did he call upon American voters to support the Republicans. Rather, he suggested the best course was to lend your vote to a third-party candidate. You may disagree with this strategy, but to have rewarded an administration, as you suggested then and seem to be suggesting now, for allowing and enabling this bloodlust is, if you don’t mind me saying, an ignoble act of political idiocy. It makes you sound like someone who would rubber stamp a shocking level of murder, because by definition, the opposition would always be worse. This gives conscientious voters absolutely no future leverage at election time, because there’s nothing the Democrats will ever do that will stop you from voting for them. This is not a political argument, but rather a call for purile tribal support despite what your eyes and ears witness. Furthermore, this is not about Tweedle Dum or your chosen Tweedle Dee - it’s about an American empire that is out of control, Trump being just one manifestation of this crumbling colossus. I wish your commentary, however eloquent, would begin to address this elephant in the room - a flailing imperial power. For those that were not following the discussion at the time, here is my original response in 2024 to Mehdi’s contentions jalalayn.substack.com/p/my-response-…

This 2024 election take on Trump didn’t age so well 🤷🏽‍♂️

Actually, if you look at current Geopolitics especially in the ME this has aged incredibly well. The dynamics in the ME are redefined. Then, if you look at US politics you're seeing a rise of Anti-Zionist candidates. Aipac being ostracised and MAGA basically imploding.

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