@aloushalshami @levantophile @afikra My grandfather was born in Damascus, raised in Haifa and settled in Beirut as a young adult. Im guessing it’s very likely he used this train. Where did the time go :(
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@omar_hen_
Let me get back to painting and forget all this trouble
Katılım Nisan 2020
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Hezbollah emerged in Tehran and Damascus
Mohammad Ali Shabani@mashabani
Casual reminder that Hezbollah emerged in reaction to Israel's previous occupation of Southern Lebanon.
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Omar retweetledi
Israel and its apologists relentlessly promoted the Oct. 7 mass rape hoax in order to mass murder Palestinians in Gaza.
Now Israel grants impunity to five soldiers who raped a Palestinian prisoner on video, and the same apologists won't say a word:
The Associated Press@AP
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. apnews.com/article/israel…
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@CountyOfTripoli @Ibn_Boulos Thats a common misconception. The name 'Green Line' doesn't come from vegetation, it originates from the green pencil used to draw the 1948 Arab-Israeli armistice line, and was borrowed via Cyprus before reaching Beirut
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@Ibn_Boulos And it was called the green line because of the vegetation that grew in this no man's land.
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@levantophile My family (completely opposed to hezb) who had nothing to do with any of this have been living in the ghobeiyri since before the 50s, now what. I am livid. Im abroad and feel helpless. All part of their plan i guess
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All the core districts of Beirut’s predominantly Shia southern suburbs, home to 100,000s of residents, are being asked to evacuate. This is going to be catastrophic for Lebanon.
Displacing the urban heart of the Shia community and then subjecting it to widespread bombardment, alongside the displacement and de facto occupation of parts of southern Lebanon, will inevitably devastate that community, leaving countless families homeless and destitute.
In turn, this will severely destabilize the entire country. Most of the displaced are likely to seek refuge nearby - in Sunni and Christian districts of Beirut, as well as in the Christian and Druze regions of Mount Lebanon - placing immense strain on already fragile intercommunal relations.
It is difficult to see how an already battered Lebanon could withstand such a refugee crisis. I also wonder how Lebanese Shias, in particular, will manage to endure an ordeal of this magnitude. The Gulf states are unlikely to finance the reconstruction of their districts as they did after 2006, which makes the long-term outlook even more grim.
If Hezbollah is a cancer on Lebanon - and it certainly is - this approach amounts to killing the patient in order to eliminate the disease.
افيخاي ادرعي@AvichayAdraee
#عاجل ‼️انذار عاجل لسكان الضاحية الجنوبية في بيروت - انقذوا حياتكم وقوموا باخلاء بيوتكم فورًا 🔸سكان أحياء برج البراجنة والحدث - يرجى التوجه شرقاً باتجاه جبل لبنان على محور بيروت-دمشق. 🔸سكان أحياء حارة حريك والشياح - يجب الانتقال شمالًا باتجاه طرابلس بمحور بيروت-طرابلس وشرقًا لجبل لبنان على اوتوستراد المتن السريع 🔸انتبهوا، يحظر عليكم التوجه جنوبًا. أي توجه جنوبًا قد يعرّض حياتكم للخطر. 🔸سنبلغكم بالوقت المناسب للعودة إلى بيوتكم
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@MarounTurLevnon @linaposting Marxism is filled with Christian morality
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@linaposting A marxist is not a Christian, no matter how baptised he was.
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Palestinian Christians are disproportionately represented in the history of Palestinian resistance so this is just laughably untrue
David Harsanyi@davidharsanyi
Here is a counterfactual everyone with an iq over 70 knows is true: If modern Israel’s neighbors were all Christian-majority nations there would be peace in the region.
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@levantophile Yes it was a bit of a wake up call seeing both extremes in such a short period of time. I lament it very much
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Unfortunately, the lively part of Bhamdoun was a purely commercial area with no significant resident population, so when the Gulf tourists stopped coming entirely after around 2011, it went into free fall.
Aley suffered from that as well, but its large resident population (and diaspora that visits in the summer) preserved a reasonably large local consumer base to power its economy.
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The largest predominantly Druze city in Lebanon, a century ago.
For comparison, this is Aley today.
(Photo credits: Maher Barake)
Imad Salamoun@ImadSalamoun
Aley - Mount Lebanon, 1920. Old Beirut Set Eldunia
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Yes, and withdrawal of the Pentagon from defensive supply of commodities globally.
Omar@omar_hen_
@ektrit Upstream because of Chinese trade embargo?
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That is the downstream.
The problem is entirely in the upstream.
Lisandro Angelini@lissandru1985
@ektrit The effects of AI on the labor market will become increasingly visible. Staff reductions and restructuring in many areas to meet new needs will be profound.
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WHAT?!
THE REASON THIS PROFESION STILL EXISTS MASSIVELY IS THE REASON THE WEST DECLINED.
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_
McKinsey estimates that we are about to enter a massive shortage of wealth management advisors in this country With the looming retirement boom and one of the largest transfers of wealth in history through inheritance, younger folks are simply not ready to manage these assets
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@SaadMaan15 Same thing in lebanon unless you make it veeerry big. The dream rarely dovetails with reality 😪
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Few do.
Especially those who spend over a decade in Europe.
Many attempt a comeback but then go back to Europe in less than a year
edmond beale@serenelyjoyful
any data on returns? talented Moroccans returning with ideas and capital later would turbo charge growth at home
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@EBasilion I hate this designation, it implicitly implies a dichotomy between white and black, and then everything in between. Makes zero sense
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Maybe for starters someone can explain to me what a white person is.
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews
BREAKING - Elon Musk confirms that the White race has two simple options to make: be conquered and enslaved while being called “racist,” or reclaim our nations and our dignity while being called “racist.”
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You’re clearly confused. These namesJean, Pierre, Georges, etc.exist in French because Christianity brought them from the East, not the other way around. The roots of these names are biblical and Semitic—think Yohanan (John), Kepha (Pierre), and Georges (Greek Georgios, common in Byzantine Syria).
Christianity spread from the Levant to Europe, not from Paris to Canaan. Try a history book instead of your meme folder.
Ahَmd@jallabsocialist
Lebanese chrisrians naming their kids “jean-pierre, jennifer, anthony, crystelle, george…” is the local equivalent of white people naming their kids naruto
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