BBC confirms video released by Israeli military was edited to exclude parts where Israeli troops fire on starving civilians attempting to collect food from aid trucks. Latest example of disinformation by Israeli officials
Belligerents lie. Class dismissed
President Sisi says the company responsible for building the New Capital (which is majority owned by Egypt's military) wants to RENT the govt district to the Egyptian state for 4 billion Egyptian pounds a year
Most states have a military. Egypt's military has a state 🧵
42% of French voters backed a party founded by a neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial. The threat to Western liberalism comes from its fascists not migrants.
Once again a French leader pandered to fascists & then begged voters to save France from fascism & fascists made gains.
Numbers like these will deter the sick from coming forward, hoping they can ride this out at home. This a public health emergency and the US government must guarantee that everyone can be treated for free. People with symptoms fearing coming forward threatens everyone's safety.
Wondering how much it will cost if you actually get
#COVID19
? I talked to a woman who was uninsured when she got the virus, and her medical bills total $34,927.43.
@realDonaldTrump
I live in a dictatorship in Egypt & even the dictator here doesnt have his cabinet go around the room praising him for cameras. That's 'sad'
That isn't what data shows. Exit polls show clearly most Democrats want single payer healthcare. They just don't believe they can have it & fears about electability, whether well-founded or a product of effective spin in the press, convinced them they can't so they vote centrist
There’s a whole group of people who’ve been profoundly and utterly wrong about the Dem party and what it wants for 5 years. Despite all the evidence of 2018, they created a false narrative that very left policies would drive turnout and win the majority. None of it has been true
لما السيسي "كسب" الرئاسة في ٢٠١٤ سعر الدولار كان ٧.١٥ جنيه والدين الخارجي كان ٤٦.١ مليار دولار
بعد فترتين في الرئاسة السعر الرسمي للدولار ٣٠.٩ جنيه (والسعر الحقيق تقريبا ٤٠ جنيه) والدين الخارجي وصل ل١٦٥.٣دولار (نص الانتاج القومي)
تفتكر الارقام دي هتوصل لفين بعد ٦ سنين كمان؟
You can't kill over 50 protestors, wound roughly 2000 of them while sustaining ZERO injuries yourself & then pretend to be a victim engaged in legal proportional use of force. That's not rational. Anyone able to suspend reason enough to believe that needs to examine their biases.
@MoSalah
If you really think we need to change the way we treat women in our culture, then punishing Warda for repeatedly harassing women is how start. This is one time in which the Egyptian Football Association is clearly right & you're clearly wrong. Warda has to face consequences
It's time for embassies to drop their policies of holding people's passports hostage while they await visa approval for weeks and months.
When the visa is ready they can bring their passport.
There's no justification for holding it & preventing them from travel in the meantime.
@wasilalitaha
@irmavandueren
Dear Wasila, we deeply regret the current situation you're in. We were forced to close the embassy and evacuate our staff. Unfortunately, this means we can't get to your passport. We advise to apply for a new passport with your local authorities.
I volunteer to train
@JoeBiden
to say A7a (أحا) before the next debate. It'll help him kick things up a notch after inshallah last night and is the perfectly packaged response to essentially anything Trump thinks, says or does.
To clarify, it's not "the press" that wrongly touted MBS as a reformer. I don't know one serious journalist who actually lives in the region who bought into this absurd narrative. It was professional pundits & some editors who spend little or no time here who spread this nonsense
Another masterclass by
@aoc
on how to use hearings to make damning indictments of corruption in our system. This is her less than 6 months on the job. Republicans are right to be obsessively freaking out about her. She will be a force for decades to come.
Is Donald Trump, a 4 times bankrupt playboy and reality TV star with strong ties to religious fundamentalists, already the leader of the United States, the world's most aggressive nuclear power?
Is Imran Khan, a legendary cricket player and international sex symbol, about to become the leader of Pakistan, an Islamic republic with nuclear weapons?
I must say that despite being well aware of the rigged nature of this presidential election, Ahmed El Tantawy is a powerful breath of fresh air who has successfully inspired many Egyptians to be more visible and vocal in their opposition to Sisi. Their bravery is inspiring. 🧵
بيان
السيد رئيس الجمهورية: المصريين فعلًا جاعوا في عهدك وبسبب إدارتك ولم يروا التنمية الموعودة
تابعت باستنكار شديد كلمة رئيس الجمهورية التي ألقاها أمس في مؤتمر احتفالي معتاد استخدم فيه الحكومة والجهاز الإداري في الدعاية الانتخابية له على نحو ينتهك مبدأ حياد مؤسسات الدولة…
When Ethiopian embassies promote the likes of Rania Khalek, you know they’re in trouble. She spent years denying & belittling Assad’s war crimes in Syria. Now she’s taking her disinformation tour to Addis to defend Abiy Ahmed’s war crimes against Tigrayans
In response to Egypt’s police randomly stopping people to search their phones for anything critical of regime ahead of today’s call for protests, posts like this have been circulating of backgrounds to put on your phone if you want to go out & be safe.
They’re only half joking
This should be obvious but
@hilaryr
has no idea what she's talking abt.
@ninaturner
was 100% right. You can read MLK's words below. The sterilization of MLK'S words by white moderates is used to weaponize MLK against activists & comfort said moderates abt their own intransigence.
@sahouraxo
Saudi's hypocrisy is well known, but I think you should take down a viral tweet that is fake rather than spread incorrect information please
A DC cop said off-duty cops & soldiers, who were among rioters, flashed badges & ID as they attempted to overrun the building “If these ppl can storm the Capitol with no regard to punishment, you must wonder how much they abuse their power when in uniform”
My total respect to those with courage to protest this regime after all the violent repression witnessed. While the numbers may be relatively small, the anger they represent is only understood when those numbers are multiplied against the extraordinary risk each protestor faces
@NBCNews
Meghan very reasonably opted to cease communicating w/this self important pest ages ago. He has no access to her & no idea what's behind her decision-making & yet the press continue to cover him as though he's some sort of authority on his adult daughter with whom he never speaks
The idea that the peoples of the Middle East are culturally or religiously incompatible w/democracy is as offensive as it is nonsensical. The region's prisons are full of brave souls who sacrificed their freedom for democracy & cemeteries full of those who gave their lives for it
Iraq & democracy do not easily coexist. Whether b/c of history, demography, religion, pol culture, outside influence, and/or something else, it was the wrong place (& arguably there was no right one) to project American ambitions for a transformed MidEast.
I seriously don't know how relevant anything we were taught is when this is now how international relations is conducted. I studied IR before Twitter was launched. 🤦♂️
Today I published an op-ed arguing that freeing the
#EverGiven
showed that, with the right resources & chances, Egyptians are as capable as anyone, but they often lack those resources
Today would've been my father Elhami's 74th birthday. He left Egypt due to that reality
Thread
This is a thread with the words of an Egyptian artist, Shady Habash, who died in prison yesterday after over two years in detention without ever being convicted of a crime. He was 24
"Prison doesn’t kill, but loneliness kills. I need your support so that I don’t die...
#شادي_حبش
@Sabra
I want to congratulate
@sabra
for the greatest self own of the night.
"America, how do you 'mmus (مص)?" literally means "America, how do you suck?"
But don't worry, none of us suck as much as Sabra hummus.
Egypt’s regime is brutal but it isn’t competent &
#COP27
today was an example of the latter
From fake human rights advocates trying ineffectively to discredit real ones to an Egyptian MP getting himself ejected from a press conference after heckling. It’s all very shoddy 🧵
The party fawning over a leader who wanted to shoot people who protested in disagreement with him should probably stop pretending to be free speech warriors worried about “cancel culture.”
Sarah Hegazi dared to honestly be herself for a few moments
For many in Egypt living safely requires living a lie. For those who demand honest existence, the choices are prison, exile or death
Sarah experienced all 3...because she loved honestly in a place that hated her for it
@GovMurphy
Please also release people in prison who wouldn't have been based on these new laws. It's unjust to detain people for something that is no longer illegal and we need to reduce our over-incarceration problem as much as possible.
Horrifying estimate
#Tigray
“The estimate includes 50,000 to 100,000 victims of direct killings, 150,000 to 200,000 starvation deaths, & more than 100,000 additional deaths caused by lack of health care, according to researchers led by Jan Nyssen of Ghent University in Belgium.”
HALF A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN
#TIGRAY
#Ethiopia
OVER THE PAST 16 MONTHS.
Imagine a nuclear bomb killing everyone in Austin. Or Lyon. Or Ismailia. Or the entirety of Malta.
It's insane that this is allowed to go on.
And that we barely acknowledge it.
Read this
Netanyahu's former defence minister Liberman said Bibi sent Mossad chief to Doha to "beg" Qatar to keep sending cash to Hamas
"Both Egypt & Qatar are angry with Hamas & planned to cut ties. Suddenly Netanyahu appears as the defender of Hamas"
I’ve never been as proud as I was those 18 days when I stood shoulder to shoulder with fellow Egyptians, demanding a govt that was ours, served us & respected our dignity
After decades of repression that drove my family abroad, I was home in the truest sense for 18 days
#Jan25
@stevensonpeter8
@MoSalah
Warda has done this repeatedly and never learns. He was fired from another team for sexually harassing the wives of teammates. That was a time for him to reflect and reform but he seems to have learned nothing and has continued this reprehensible behavior.
In case this hasn't been painfully obvious for quite some time, most Arab leaders don't seriously care about Palestinians. They often barely care about their own people.
According to a Bloomberg analysis, Egypt is the second most vulnerable country on earth to a debt crisis. The only country more vulnerable is Ukraine.
Ukraine was invaded by Russia’s military whereas Egypt’s economy was invaded by its own military.
Which countries are most vulnerable to a debt crisis?
We ranked 60 countries by:
- Public debt
- Interest costs
- Yield on dollar bonds
4 Middle Eastern countries are among the most exposed:
Egypt (2nd)
Tunisia (4th)
Bahrain (11th)
Jordan (13th)
With
@sjinlondon
,
@YvonneMhango
The simple exercise of reimagining geographic space shouldn’t be shocking. Movement is central to human history. A century ago my roots from Greece, Syria & Egypt came together in Cairo
We’re a Mediterranean family & that sea should be seen as a source of connection not division
@Jerusalem_Post
The kid who's dad bought him an acceptance letter to Harvard & has zero background on this historic conflict couldn't solve it? Shocking
Noteworthy that apparently the reason Begin called it off was because he feared the Soviet ambassador might be in attendance. Not because be had a problem blowing up a stadium full of people.
Jesus. Newly declassified documents show in 1982 Israel planned to assassinate Arafat + PLO leaders in Beirut by blowing up an entire stadium full of people. Their seats were boobytraped and two truck bombs were going to detonate outside. Begin called it off w minutes to spare.
I couldn’t take much with me when I moved, but the newspapers I collected the morning of my birthday 11 years ago documenting the conclusion of the proudest 18 days of my life could not be left behind. The drive & courage of Egyptians continues to inspire me
كل سنة وأحنا فاكرين
Damning & powerful investigative report from
@reuters
suggesting Egyptian security forces have fabricated shootouts with militants after high profile attacks & in reality are killing detainees in staged confrontations, at times months after their capture
Personal news
I'm thrilled to share I've been accepted to pursue a PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (
@UABBarcelona
) this fall. I'll be focusing on Egypt's political economy as it's evolved since 2011.
Now, how to convince Europe to let this American in? 🤔
@SpainMFA
10 years ago today Egyptian soldiers brutally killed 27 Egyptian Christian protestors with live ammo & ran them over with APCs while State TV incited public against Christians. A horrifying moment that foreshadowed brutality to come. No one has been held to account.
#Maspero
THREAD: President Macron's comments on human rights in Egypt at today's press conference with President Sisi were appalling for a variety of reasons. He propped up Sisi's untenable effort to connect repression to the fight against extremism when we all know this to be untrue.
@dpletka
Actually, Congressional Republicans were so mad about France's opposition to invading Iraq that they literally changed the name of fries in their cafeteria from French Fries to Freedom Fries. Ambassador
@GerardAraud
is on solid ground here. …
If this video was meant to satirize the influencer universe it couldn't have been done better, but no this appears to really be a workout video being filmed with a coup being conducted in the background
Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento.
@mtlgazette
What may be most breathtaking here is the delusional arrogance & self-importance of
@EducationQC
. The minister suffers the delusion that this highly sought after Nobel Laureate is so desperate to teach in his province that she'd change her behavior to accomodate his intolerance
@gnuseibeh
Facts:
1) Khashoggi was killed by Saudi govt officials
2) State is thus culpable
3) impossible for all these high ranking officials to do this without MBS' knowledge thus he's an accomplice in Khashoggi's attempted kidnapping & murder
4) We must demand real accountability of MBS
I'm sad to share that my Grandmother, Amal Tawfik, passed away
She was born in Cairo, Egypt on May 30th 1929. She entered a world where Egypt was a British controlled monarchy in which women couldn't vote, & rarely pursued higher education. She spent her life challenging that 🧵
CNN, 100% right… 32% of the time
Tel Aviv is a coastal city, not a city in the Golan Heights.
Sderot isn’t in the West Bank, it’s right outside Gaza.
On the upside, they labeled Egypt correctly 😅
So one of the racist German journalists who branded the Moroccan football team as antisemites for recognizing the existence of the Palestinian people and raising their flag is now trying to defend himself by calling his critics “you angry Arabs.”
Yep, as racist as you’d expect
@geoffreysbatt
Before sanctions in 1990 Iraq's GDP was $180 billion & GDP per capita was $10,300 (nearly double today's GDP per capita). Ending sanctions not toppling Saddam revived GDP
This is a great example of statistical manipulation; starting graph where it suits ur thesis to hide context
#UPDATE
Without naming countries, France, Italy and Germany said in a joint statement that they are "ready to consider" sanctions on foreign powers violating an arms embargo in
#Libya
This tomb was sealed 4400 years ago and we're the first people since then to see it. It always amazes me to see how the vivid colors used by the ancient Egyptian's could survive for so long
@PressSec
Stop lying. She totally unethically tried to grab a mic from a reporter and he grabbed the mic to do his duty as a journalist. He didn't grab her.
I've been collecting EgyptAir's magazine, Horus, for years with the intention of writing something condemning it as embarrassingly terrible from content to grammar but I think this reportedly fake Barrymore interview will save me the trouble of having to
So just to clarify, after after Israel insisted Al Shifa was definitely the command center to justify bombing the hospital, shooting doctors & nurses through the windows and killing babies on incubators, the “real” command center is now in a refugee camp full of fleeing civilians
Break: Ehud Olmert tells me Hamas command center is in Khan Younis - not
#Shifa
hospital.
“Khan Younis, which is in the southern part of Gaza Strip, is the real headquarters of Hamas.”
Dear
@RamyCol
can you please inform your client
@MoSalah
that this man is responsible for a number of crimes against humanity and aside from cooperating with him being morally repulsive it will also hurt Salah's career & brand in Europe going forward.
This isn't a case of guilt by association. Trump's bigoted rhetoric against Muslims and promotion of fear of them serves as fuel for the fire of anti-Muslim bigotry and I fear where the next attack will take place as many, like Trump, promote this dangerous dehumanizing rhetoric.
Lest there be any confusion, the tyrants of this region want all of us critics silent; dead, tortured or imprisoned. To what extent we're not is a product of concern about consequences. If Khashoggi was murdered and there are no consequences expect many to follow MBS' example
Egyptian talk show host Youssef El Husseiny warns Egyptians to sell dollars to banks & buy Egyptian pounds (EGP) by Sept 15th, claiming investments coming that will drive down price of dollar
It's an example of economic dangers of a lack of a free press 🧵
When the New Administrative Capital was announced Egyptians were promised the state wouldn't pay a penny for it. All costs would be covered with land swaps; both from land in Cairo after ministries were moved and the land given to developers in the new capital.
I would encourage everyone to disregard anything Trump is saying about Beirut right now.
He doesn't know what's happening with Covid in the country he governs. He's almost certainly not paying serious attention to developments half way around the world.
My initial reaction when I'm asked how will the election affect US policy in the Middle East courtesy of Palestinian Memes
I'll have a more nuanced answer later ☕️
If people want to boycott French products in response to ongoing bigotry against French Muslims that's their choice, but it's hard to take govt officials seriously when they're simultaneously silent on or supportive of China as it literally puts Muslims in concentration camps.
Urgent:
#Erdogan
has called for a boycott of French products - following boycott calls in Qatar, Iran, Jordan and Kuwait - as well as condemnation from Morocco after France displayed images of the Prophet Mohammad that Muslims consider blasphemous.
#Turkey
Amro Adib is the most watched talk show host in Egypt. He has called on authorities to stop preventing supporters of Ahmed El Tantawy from giving him their endorsment. Now asks Sisi to let press speak freely. He's not saying this without powerful backers
@Goalie_Mikey
@mtlgazette
@EducationQC
My criticisms of Egypt are well documented. I don't see the point of such whataboutism. Every condescending idiot deserves to be condemned on their own, regardless of the existence of others elsewhere.
Nope. War with Iran would be way way worse. Quadruple the land mass, more than double the population, far better military, proxies throughout the region & a population that already witnessed how badly we failed in Iraq and wants nothing like that for themselves or their families.
BREAKING Heavily armed security apparatus in America's largest city declared "war" on its civilian leader after he supported reforms to end abuses, including wrongful deaths perpetrated by security apparatus.
NYPD has a budget that wld rank 36th in the world in defense spending
Mayor DeBlasio, the members of the NYPD are declaring war on you! We do not respect you, DO NOT visit us in hospitals. You sold the NYPD to the vile creatures, the 1% who hate cops but vote for you. NYPD cops have been assassinated because of you. This isn’t over, Game on!
@LindseyGrahamSC
You do realize that Avenatti's other client has been vindicated and Trump's own lawyer was indicted in the case.
@MichaelAvenatti
was proven truthful while the president was shown to be a liar.
NEW: George W. Bush says he is "anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd," and calls it a "strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future."
12 years ago, we loudly reminded the world that sovereignty belongs to the people.
Standing shoulder to shoulder for those historic 18 days will always be the proudest time of my life.
Egypt belongs to its people, not to its military nor to its regime.
#Jan25
The Saudis calling for restraint against escalation with Iran.
Saudi Arabia, one of America's most vociferously anti-Iran allies, led by MBS, one of the region's most reckless leaders, are understandably spooked by this recklessness.
They know there's no plan to manage fallout.
The Kingdom’s statement regarding the events in Iraq stresses the Kingdom’s view of the importance of de-escalation to save the countries of the region and their people from the risks of any escalation.
8 years ago, President Sisi told Egyptians to be patient & they 'd enjoy fruits of development within 2 years
Since then Egyptians endured multiple financial crises, a collapse in purchasing power, historic levels of inflation & rising poverty. Worse yet, the outlook is awful 🧵