Karim Emile Bitar

🇮🇷 Bertrand Badie, politiste : “La culture persane est une alliance impétueuse de dignité et de fureur” “De père iranien, le spécialiste des relations internationales revient Monde », sur la méconnaissance occidentale à l’égard de l’Iran et de sa culture” lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

Come on the show!! We’ll talk about how self deprecating we both are!!

🇱🇧 Batroun, Lebanon

At this level, incoherence is an art.

I wrote about Lebanon in the NYRB online: "A strong state cannot emerge out of an all-out assault, let alone out of occupation. War begets not peace but capitulation, and all capitulation will beget—at the price of so much death and destruction—is a new modus vivendi."

Sen. Bernie Sanders seeks to block $660 million in U.S. arms sales to Israel over 'illegal' Iran war haaretz.com/us-news/2026-0…

spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

Le Hezbollah plus radical que jamais lorientlejour.com/article/149975… “Aux yeux du parti, plus de place pour les compromis ou les « ententes à la libanaise ». (…) “Le Hezbollah d’aujourd’hui ne nie pas être plus que jamais lié aux gardiens de la révolution iraniens.” via @LOrientLeJour

“Like an angry five-year-old whose friends refuse to come to his party because he shouts at them and never shares his toys, Trump exploded: “We no longer ‘need,’ or desire, NATO assistance–WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/… @RBReich

Many thanks to @amwajmedia for publishing my latest piece, featuring quotes from @DEsfandiary, @karimbitar, and @NeilQuilliam1. amwaj.media/en/article/ira… #SaudiArabia #UAE #Iran

🇮🇷 🇸🇦 🇦🇪 “Other analysts agree that Iranian state collapse would harm Emirati interests. “I think that the UAE would prefer a weakened but intact Iranian state,” Karim Emile Bitar, a lecturer in Middle East Studies at Sciences Po Paris, told Amwaj media.” amwaj.media/en/article/ira…

My latest: Will Lebanon survive an operation to remove Hezbollah? Iran-backed Hezbollah has drawn domestic criticism over its intervention against Israel, but asking the Lebanese Army to disarm it amid war risks sparking new sectarian tension and conflict newsweek.com/will-lebanon-s…

🔴 Rendez-vous ce soir dès 20h30 en direct sur QG ! L'émission à suivre ici ➡️ qg.media/live/

🔴 « Pendant longtemps, les élites de gauche et de droite se sont entendues pour trahir leur mandat, tout en se légitimant face au “diable de la République” Jean-Marie Le Pen » François Meyronnis était sur QG avec @alancelin L'émission en accès libre ➡️ youtu.be/zcbaseVVig8?si…

🇱🇧🇮🇷🇮🇱 My comments to @Newsweek: “The paradox is that the more destructive the Israeli campaign becomes, the more it risks helping Hezbollah regain some legitimacy among segments of Lebanese society.” Will Lebanon Survive an Operation to Remove Hezbollah? newsweek.com/will-lebanon-s…

📚 Writing to Raymond Aron in 1970, Karl Popper eviscerates Adorno and Habermas: “Lunatics speaking … either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see Habermas’s “talent”… Once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts.”

🇱🇧 The Beirut Annunciation Orthodox College mourns the loss of Jad Kobeissi, a Grade 9 student, who tragically passed away following an Israeli airstrike that struck his building. (…) He was “a kind and vibrant soul whose warmth, humility, and smile touched all who knew him.”🕯️

"If Netanyahu, so arrogant about his ability to influence the US, ends up destroying America’s alliance with Israel, there will be a measure of poetic justice in it. But the fallout won’t be Israel’s alone, given how often both Zionists and antisemites conflate Israel with the Jewish people as a whole." nytimes.com/2026/03/18/opi…