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Analysis: Serbia's former president Aleksandar Vucic faces a crucial electoral test. Can he secure a fresh mandate, and what would his victory mean for Israel and Serbia's growing strategic ties?
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در مقاله اخیرم به همراه الکس وینستون در اورشلیم پست شرح دادم که چگونه «فدرالیسم قومی-زبانی»، کشور تاریخی اتیوپی را گرفتار جنگ های بی پایان قومی، ویرانی و مرگ کرده است.
نوشتم که اتیوپی یکی از تمدن های تاریخی است و مانی، پیامبر ایرانی اوایل دوران ساسانی، اکسوم (نام باستانی اتیوپی) را در کنار ایران، چین و روم، چهار تمدن بزرگ جهان نامید.
فاجعه از جایی آغاز شد که مارکسیست ها، اتیوپی را نه یک ملت با تمدن تاریخی، که کشوری «کثیر المله» نامیدند، با مدل فدرالیسم و حق جدا شدن از کشور.
در سال ۱۹۷۴ مارکسیست‌ها پادشاهی دیرین اتیوپی را سرنگون کردند. سرانجام فدرالیسم قومی-زبانی برقرار شد و هر منطقه نیروی شبه نظامی اختصاصی ایجاد کرد. همسایگانی که قرن ها در کنار هم می زیستند صرفا بدلیل اینکه از قوم دیگری بودند اخراج شدند که به جنگ های قومی انجامید. اریتره نیز از اتیوپی جدا شد، که اتیوپی را به کشوری محصور در خشکی و بدون دسترسی به دریا تبدیل کرد. تنها در جنگ‌های قومی سال های ۲۰۲۰ تا ۲۰۲۲، بیش از ۵۰۰ هزار نفر کشته شدند.
اتیوپی, آزمایشگاهِ تئوری هویتی مارکسیست ها بود. نتیجه «فدرالیسم قومی-زبانی»، تجزیه، جنگ های بی پایان، ویرانی و مرگ بود.
تجربه اتیوپی، درسی بزرگ برای ایران است که تاکید بر هویت ملیِ شهروند‌محور و حفظ تمامیت ارضی، بسیار حیاتی است و ایده های هویتی چپ با ایجاد مرزبندی‌های قومی می‌توانند به جنگ، فروپاشی و ویرانی اقتصادی منجر شوند.
In our recent article for @Jerusalem_Post , with @AlexWinston89 , we examine the immense structural tragedy of ethnic-linguistic federalism in historical Ethiopia: a cautionary tale of identity politics for other ancient nations.
Key takeaways from the analysis:
The Architecture of Fracture:
The imposition of Marxist-inspired ethnic federalism transformed neighbors into rivals overnight. It led to devastating internal conflicts, regional paramilitarism, and the 1993 secession of Eritrea: leaving Ethiopia as the world’s most populous landlocked country.
This remains an existential national security crisis.
A Legacy of Strategic Relocation:
The article highlights Israel's historic Operation Solomon in 1991. In less than 48 hours, Israel successfully evacuated over 14,300 Ethiopian Jews, rescuing them from deteriorating security conditions.
The Red Sea Geopolitical Shift & Strategic Alliance:
Access to the sea is vital for Ethiopia's survival. Amid challenges from Turkey's presence in Somalia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, partnering with Israel for its battle-tested military technology becomes essential for Ethiopia.
Cohesive nations must maintain a unified fabric to avoid eternal conflict and disintegration.
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In our recent article for @Jerusalem_Post , with @AlexWinston89 , we examine the immense structural tragedy of ethnic-linguistic federalism in historical Ethiopia: a cautionary tale of identity politics for other ancient nations.
Key takeaways from the analysis:
The Architecture of Fracture:
The imposition of Marxist-inspired ethnic federalism transformed neighbors into rivals overnight. It led to devastating internal conflicts, regional paramilitarism, and the 1993 secession of Eritrea: leaving Ethiopia as the world’s most populous landlocked country.
This remains an existential national security crisis.
A Legacy of Strategic Relocation:
The article highlights Israel's historic Operation Solomon in 1991. In less than 48 hours, Israel successfully evacuated over 14,300 Ethiopian Jews, rescuing them from deteriorating security conditions.
The Red Sea Geopolitical Shift & Strategic Alliance:
Access to the sea is vital for Ethiopia's survival. Amid challenges from Turkey's presence in Somalia and the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, partnering with Israel for its battle-tested military technology becomes essential for Ethiopia.
Cohesive nations must maintain a unified fabric to avoid eternal conflict and disintegration.
Opinion: Recognition of Somaliland and a strategic alliance with Israel to access its battle-tested military technology have become vital requirements for Ethiopia's national security.
Written by: @AlexWinston89, @TinaGhazimorad
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An honor as always to co-pen a piece with @TinaGhazimorad.
Opinion: Recognition of Somaliland and a strategic alliance with Israel to access its battle-tested military technology have become vital requirements for Ethiopia's national security.
Written by: @AlexWinston89, @TinaGhazimorad
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The regime’s judiciary is drafting a law to criminalize “insulting” the Islamic Republic’s flag.
Yet the Iranian people continue to risk their lives to raise the Lion and Sun, refusing to allow this regime to erase Iran’s identity.
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Iran executed mountaineer and musician Ali Sina Mostafavi, 38, on Wednesday, according to state sources, continuing the Islamic Republic’s use of executions as punishment against protesters.
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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar warned that countries pursuing one-sided policies against Israel will face consequences and risk losing regional influence, as he defended the closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem.
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Developments over the past several months raise the question: Is the world beginning to turn against the Islamic Republic?
Analysis by @AlexWinston89
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To the people of Israel: I stand with you in grief, remembrance and solidarity on the third anniversary of October 7. We will never forget those murdered or the suffering of their families and the survivors.
The Islamic Republic that armed and supported Hamas is the same regime that keeps Iranians in chains. When Iran is free, we will hold all those involved in these crimes accountable. Both our peoples deserve freedom and security.
The bond between Iranians and Jews stretches back 2,500 years to Cyrus the Great. A free Iran will be a friend and partner to Israel. Lasting peace and stability for both our peoples will only come with the fall of the Islamic Republic.
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در روزهای ۱۸ و ۱۹ دی‌ماه، جمهوری اسلامی اینترنت را قطع کرد، ارتباط مردم با یکدیگر و جهان را از بین برد و سپس به سوی ایرانیان بی‌سلاح آتش گشود.
در این گزارش ویدیویی «اورشلیم پست»، الکس وینستون با استناد به مستند «این روایت ماست» از شبکه منوتو نشان می‌دهد که چگونه تصاویر ثبت‌شده در داخل ایران، ناگهان از شور حضور گسترده مردم در خیابان‌ها به صحنه‌هایی از صدای گلوله، فریاد و جنایت جمهوری اسلامی تبدیل شد.
قطع اینترنت فقط برای سانسور نبود، پوششی برای کشتار بود.
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On January 8 and 9, the Islamic Republic cut off the internet, isolating Iranians from one another and from the world. Then it opened fire on unarmed protesters.
In this @Jerusalem_Post video, @AlexWinston89 draws on Manoto TV’s documentary “This Is Our Story” to show how footage from inside Iran suddenly shifts from the energy of people taking to the streets to scenes of gunfire, screams, and mass killing.
The internet blackout was not simply censorship. It provided cover for a massacre.
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It is a sadistic kind of evil.
A few months ago, a heart attack stopped Alireza Sepahi's first execution. He was resuscitated and returned to prison. His own mother reportedly wished he would not wake, knowing what fate awaited him.
On Sunday he married his imprisoned fiancée by phone.
The Islamic Republic hanged Alireza Sepahi this morning.
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سردبیر بخش خبر اورشلیم‌پست به ایران‌اینترنشنال گفت در شرایط اعتراضات، قطع اینترنت و محدودیت‌های رسانه‌ای در ایران، بیش از گذشته باید صدای افرادی را که با سرکوب، زندان و خطر اعدام روبه‌رو هستند، به گوش جهان رساند.
وینستون که برای شرکت در پنجمین کنفرانس ایران موسسه نوفدی از اورشلیم به واشینگتن سفر کرده است، گفت: «می‌خواهم مردم ایران بدانند که تنها نیستند.»
او با اشاره به سخنرانی بنیامین نتانیاهو، نخست‌وزیر اسرائیل، در مجمع عمومی سازمان ملل گفت تاکید او بر شرایط مردم ایران را نشانه‌ای از همبستگی میان مردم دو کشور می‌داند.
وینستون همچنین نمایش دستگاه استارلینک از سوی هیئت اسرائیلی در سازمان ملل را اقدامی نمادین برای جلب توجه به قطع و کنترل اینترنت در ایران توصیف کرد.
سردبیر بخش خبر اورشلیم‌پست گفت او و همکارانش تلاش می‌کنند روایت خانواده‌های جان‌باختگان اعتراضات، زندانیان، مجروحان و افراد در معرض خطر اعدام را به مخاطبان خارج از ایران منتقل کنند.
او در پایان خطاب به مردم ایران گفت: «مراقب خودتان باشید و بدانید که تنها نیستید، جهان با شماست و ما تلاش می‌کنیم پیامتان را منتشر کنیم.»
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جمهوری اسلامی تلاش کرد با قطع اینترنت، کشتار را از چشم جهان پنهان کند، پاسخ ایرانیان، ثبت حقیقت با دوربینهای خودشان بود.
الکس وینستون در گزارشی جامع برای «اورشلیم پست»، مستند چهارقسمتی «این روایت ماست» ساخته شبکه منوتو را بررسی کرده است، مستندی هفت‌ساعته که بر پایه بیش از ۱۰ هزار تصویر ثبت‌شده به دست شهروندان عادی، روایت انقلاب ملی شیر و خورشید و کشتار دی ماه را هم‌زمان با وقوع آن به تصویر می‌کشد.
این تصاویر، شهادت شهروندان، روزنامه‌نگاری، حافظه تاریخی و اسناد جنایت علیه بشریت‌اند، روایت ملتی که در همان لحظاتی که رژیم می‌کوشید جنایت‌هایش را پنهان کند، انقلاب خود را مستند کرد.
آن‌ها آنجا بودند. حقیقت را ثبت کردند. اکنون جهان باید آن حقیقت را ببیند.
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“They tried to hide a massacre by shutting down the internet. Iranians answered by pressing record.”
In a powerful and comprehensive piece for @Jerusalem_Post , @AlexWinston89 examines Manoto’s four-part documentary This Is Our Story, more than seven hours assembled from more than 10,000 recordings made by ordinary Iranians as the January uprising and massacre unfolded.
These recordings are more than footage. They are testimony, journalism, memory and evidence of crimes against humanity, a nation documenting its own revolution while the regime tried to conceal its crimes.
They were there. They recorded it. Now the world must see it.
Read the full piece:
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“This Is Our Story” preserves the truth of January through more than 10,000 recordings made by ordinary Iranians as the revolution and massacre unfolded.
In his powerful Jerusalem Post piece, @AlexWinston89 takes readers beyond the statistics to the individual lives, courage and grief captured in those videos, and explains why this archive matters not only as a documentary, but as testimony, historical record and evidence of crimes against humanity.
An essential documentary and an exceptional piece.
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Both deserve the world’s attention.
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“They tried to hide a massacre by shutting down the internet. Iranians answered by pressing record.”
In a powerful and comprehensive piece for @Jerusalem_Post , @AlexWinston89 examines Manoto’s four-part documentary This Is Our Story, more than seven hours assembled from more than 10,000 recordings made by ordinary Iranians as the January uprising and massacre unfolded.
These recordings are more than footage. They are testimony, journalism, memory and evidence of crimes against humanity, a nation documenting its own revolution while the regime tried to conceal its crimes.
They were there. They recorded it. Now the world must see it.
Read the full piece:
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n…
Alex Winston retweeted
“They tried to hide a massacre by shutting down the internet. Iranians answered by pressing record.”
In a powerful and comprehensive piece for @Jerusalem_Post , @AlexWinston89 examines Manoto’s four-part documentary This Is Our Story, more than seven hours assembled from more than 10,000 recordings made by ordinary Iranians as the January uprising and massacre unfolded.
These recordings are more than footage. They are testimony, journalism, memory and evidence of crimes against humanity, a nation documenting its own revolution while the regime tried to conceal its crimes.
They were there. They recorded it. Now the world must see it.
Read the full piece:
jpost.com/middle-east/iran-n…
Iran Affairs: Persian news outlet Manoto TV’s new documentary, This Is Our Story, tells the story of Iran's anti-regime uprising through the voices of four Iranians as they watch protests unfold into an event that changed Iran forever.
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"Those of you who speak to your friends and family back in Iran, keep telling them: they're not alone. We will continue to tell the world what is happening."
@AlexWinston89 of @Jerusalem_Post speaks at NUFDI's #IranConference.
Watch both days in full on our YouTube channel.
Manoto’s 'This Is Our Story' lets Iranians tell the story of January's massacres themselves. Through thousands of videos filmed on the streets as the January uprising turned bloody, Iran's citizens have become the documentarians of their own revolution. It should be seen by all.
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چهار قسمت مستند «این روایت ماست» درباره اعتراضات دی‌ماه ۱۴۰۴ چهار قسمت این مستند را می‌توانید در کانال یوتیوب منوتو از اینجا ببینید.
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Eritrean opposition activists in Israel say they are building a movement aimed at bringing change to Eritrea, while raising their children in Israel and preparing for the day they can return home.
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