Lina Mounzer
@warghetti.bsky.social
Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo agoKhalil was killed and her colleague injured in what Lebanese officials are calling a 'double-tap' strike by Israel https://aje.news/5nsarp
the aerial view of destruction, seeing places that i've spent so much precious time in being literally erased by Israeli bombs while i'm far away, feels like a physical assault on memory itself.
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
I’d like to hear from experts how someone so depraved as to excuse the wholesale razing of an entire town with such flimsy justification is able to function despite the deep self-loathing and pitiful lack of self-regard that poisons their insides
Browsing any of the Israel-related subreddits is a fascinating and horrifying glimpse into the Israeli psyche. Truly Cirque-du-Soleil worthy mental gymnastics in order to avoid accountability and willfully misunderstand why the world might rightfully hate them
Medical students in Gaza restore one of the oldest libraries after it was bombed by the Israeli occupation.
And: what Lebanon will be left in the wake of a civil war, which is where this inevitably leads?
Lina Mounzer@warghetti.bsky.social · 4mo agoJust when the world is finally, rightfully beginning to turn against Israel, the Lebanese government decides to legitimize them through direct talks. They claim this is to uphold Lebanese sovereignty. Tell me, what sovereignty can be upheld before an entity openly looking to colonize your land?
Just when the world is finally, rightfully beginning to turn against Israel, the Lebanese government decides to legitimize them through direct talks. They claim this is to uphold Lebanese sovereignty. Tell me, what sovereignty can be upheld before an entity openly looking to colonize your land?
April 13 is the anniversary of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil war, which began in 1975. For The Public Source, I wrote about the twisted nostalgia many of us feel for those dark days: thepublicsource.org/civil-war-le...
On Half a Century of Growing up as a Child of the War
What does it mean to be someone who lived through Lebanon's civil war?
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Never has there been a criminal gang so boastful and proud of its crimes.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo agoIsraeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...
That’s not what AlJazeera said though. And: Vance said it was a “misunderstanding” that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire (when it was clearly stated from the outset). US and Israel are always working in tandem, full partners in crime, but Israel allows the U.S. to pretends it’s not the evil empire
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 4mo agoAbsolute bombshell on Al Jazeera. An expert correspondent confirms Israel is completely going rogue, defying the US-Iran ceasefire and ignoring European leaders. They are launching unprecedented attacks on Lebanon just to sabotage peace. The Zionist regime is out of control.🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️
Nothing the Israelis hate more than a ceasefire. Which is why they never, in fact, cease fire
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnger and outrage in Israel after the two week ceasefire agreement reached between Iran and the United States. Israeli analyst Avi Ashkenazi described the outcome of Operation Lion’s Roar as a shift “from the lion’s roar to a cat’s meow,” reflecting growing frustration over the results.
Such massacres, going on 80 yrs, are the price of Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” So when you say “I believe in Israel’s right to exist” you’re saying you’re ok with the mass death required to secure that existence. Learn how to say, loud & unashamed: No, Israel has no right to exist
Lina Mounzer@warghetti.bsky.social · 4mo agoMassacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
At some point Israel abandoned all pretenses and decided to lean hard into the cartoonish evil it has always embodied
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo agoIsrael called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with. This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
Lina Mounzer@warghetti.bsky.social · 4mo agoMassacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
Every Middle Easterner who knows anything is going to be warning the world that you cannot trust Israel while we get ignored while Israel triggers another war and fucks it all up again. Understand this if nothing else: Israeli politics needs war. That’s how they resolve tensions between them.
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 4mo agoIsrael is still carrying out strikes in Iran, a military spokesperson told CNN.
Is anyone surprised? Military belligerence is to Israel what swimming is to a shark
Eloise Powers@elnopower.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING: Netanyahu says the two-week ceasefire with Iran does not apply to Hezbollah or Lebanon—directly contradicting earlier statements from U.S., Iranian, and Pakistani officials. Major gap in the deal raises risk of continued regional escalation. Meidas Touch Fuck Bibi Netanyahu
2am in Beirut. The Israeli drone overhead is so loud I can hear it indoors, with all the windows shut, and noise canceling earbuds in. It’s been like this all evening. Seven hours without letup. Enough to drive you batshit. Demonic entity
Hot take: The American regime absolutely cannot continue to publicly threaten Western Asia with a nuclear apocalypse even if all the experts think that Trump is not being serious. I know our hysteria might come across as amusing to you but our history with your regime 100% validates that hysteria.
Israel bombed a synagogue in Tehran today. Just as they did in Beirut in 1982. Israel hates pluralism, loathes the richness of multiculturalism (why the right wing love it so much). That caption on the cover of this Torah—“Hebrew text and Persian translation”—is everything Israel tries to snuff out
Agree on “local voices”. But the BBC went on to change this quote entirely without correction. Indicating it was invented wholesale. Also, that they would fabricate a quote this deranged & self-hating is indicative that they see Iranians as less than human, less even than animal
Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis war has been extremely revealing about the limits of the lived experience/local voices industrial complex:
Israel is pounding Beirut on Easter Sunday. The last airstrike, in the Jnah neighborhood, full of refugees from other areas, is being reported as a massacre—20 casualties & counting. It was so loud in Ras Beirut my left ear is still throbbing something awful
The USA is the most malignant empire in human history.
For this month’s column, I received 2 letters from 2 readers in the diaspora watching a war being waged on their homes and families & unable to process the cognitive dissonance. I hope the advice proves useful to others in a similar situation 🙏🏽 ❤️ themarkaz.org/dear-souseh-...
Dear Souseh: Distressed (& More) by War
This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive dissonance that results.
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