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Mustapha Hamoui

@Beirutspring

🇱🇧 I've been watching and writing about Lebanon for more than 20 years. I can sometimes get carried away.

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Joined April 2009
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🇱🇧 Two important Lessons for Lebanon from L’affaire Ibrahim Charara: Lesson 1: Don’t appoint diplomats who insult their host countries Lesson 2: Watch and learn how an unwelcome ambassador can be ejected from a sovereign country
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Breaking news. Please be careful guys.
الحدث اللبناني (@Alhadath_Leb) profile pictureالحدث اللبناني
@Alhadath_LebNov 7
كاميرا مراقبة توثق قيام شخص بسرقة قفص طيور في منطقة ضم وفرز بطرابلس
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Cries in Lebanese
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🇺🇸 Ron DeSantis and Nicki Hailey
🤖 Made with AI
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I like it
Alexandre Ziad Karkour 🇱🇧 🇫🇷 (@AZKARKOUR) profile pictureAlexandre Ziad Karkour 🇱🇧 🇫🇷
@AZKARKOURNov 4
No reliable electricity. No running water. No access to our own savings in the banks. Israeli drones hovering overhead. Our land still occupied. But rejoice! #Lebanon government has unveiled its brand-new visual identity. Perhaps it needed one. After all, it seems to have lost its identity altogether.
Image from Alexandre Ziad Karkour 🇱🇧 🇫🇷 (@AZKARKOUR)
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🇱🇧 My main concern today is that Iran and Hezbollah may deliberately provoke Israel into overreacting with Gaza-style urban destruction in Lebanon, hoping to push Democrats to act against Israel. That would be a Yahya Sinwar-level of insanity.
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Poetry and deep wisdom
Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) profile pictureTeam Talarico
@TeamTalaricoHQNov 4
.@JamesTalarico: We didn’t win by alienating our neighbors, or by shaming our neighbors, or by ridiculing our neighbors. We embodied a new kind of politics. A politics rooted in a deep love — for our state, for our country, and for all of our neighbors. My faith teaches me that love is the strongest force in the universe. Love is not passive. Love is not neutral. Love is not weak. Love requires that we stand between the bullies and the bullied. Love requires that we look evil in the eye and not blink. Love can heal what’s broken in America.
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🇺🇸 Another testimony to the genius of American Founding Fathers. Congrats Democrats.
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250 years ago, they effectively invented a self-repairing machine.
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Nothing to see here. Just a Hezbollah plan to abduct Ministers serving in the current Lebanese Government. (Translation in ALT text)
Screenshot from a Nidaa Al Watan article that translates as: “According to information obtained by "Nidaa Al-Watan," once Hezbollah concluded that the state had decided to move forward with a judicial process—which could begin by summoning several of its members of parliament and security officials for questioning—the group devised a military deployment plan. This plan covers the area from Sidon to Beirut, the eastern and western Bekaa Valley, as well as the Metn and Keserwan districts. It carries a specific military objective: to "abduct"—from their homes or residences—those government ministers who voted to refer the crime to the Judicial Council. Furthermore, explicit orders have been issued to target the army and security forces without hesitation should they attempt to obstruct Hezbollah’s operatives.”

ALT Screenshot from a Nidaa Al Watan article that translates as: “According to information obtained by "Nidaa Al-Watan," once Hezbollah concluded that the state had decided to move forward with a judicial process—which could begin by summoning several of its members of parliament and security officials for questioning—the group devised a military deployment plan. This plan covers the area from Sidon to Beirut, the eastern and western Bekaa Valley, as well as the Metn and Keserwan districts. It carries a specific military objective: to "abduct"—from their homes or residences—those government ministers who voted to refer the crime to the Judicial Council. Furthermore, explicit orders have been issued to target the army and security forces without hesitation should they attempt to obstruct Hezbollah’s operatives.”

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Source: nidaalwatan.com/article/4050…
حزم كهربائي واستنفار غذائي... وترقّب أمني | نداء الوطن

حزم كهربائي واستنفار غذائي... وترقّب أمني | نداء الوطن

على وقع ترقّب نتائج الانتخابات الأميركية النصفية، وما قد تحمله من مؤشرات إلى اتجاهات السياسة الأميركية في المرحلة المقبلة، تبدو الثوابت الأميركية حيال لبنان أكثر وضوحًا من أي وقت مضى: لا مساومة على...

nidaalwatan.com
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The worst
Patches O’Houlihan (@sondraa) profile picturePatches O’Houlihan
@sondraaNov 2
This gif just pissed me off
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Lebanon's official records have the last laugh in the age of AI Cyber danger
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Stephanie Bechara (@StephBechara) profile pictureStephanie Bechara
@StephBecharaNov 2
With cyberattacks increasingly disrupting operations across Europe, I guess Lebanon’s public institutions have one thing less to worry about. Turns out keeping records in handwritten ledgers, relying on paperwork and delaying digitization reforms might actually be paying off for us. 🤔
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A classic Lebanon Lose-Lose situation
Mustapha Hamoui (@Beirutspring) profile pictureMustapha Hamoui
@BeirutspringNov 2
Two potential scenarios for Lebanon after 🇺🇸 elections: 1- Full resumption of war with Iran. Potential violent destruction and chaos in 🇱🇧 but possibility of decapitation of Iran regime 2- Peace process that leads to grand bargain with Iran that keeps Lebanon stable but Hezbollah strengthened Which scenario do you prefer? (Poll in next tweet)
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Two potential scenarios for Lebanon after 🇺🇸 elections: 1- Full resumption of war with Iran. Potential violent destruction and chaos in 🇱🇧 but possibility of decapitation of Iran regime 2- Peace process that leads to grand bargain with Iran that keeps Lebanon stable but Hezbollah strengthened Which scenario do you prefer? (Poll in next tweet)
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Based on the previous tweet, which scenario do you prefer?
39%1- War
42%2- Grand Bargain
19%3- Other (explain)
223 votes • Final results
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SNL “A record number of people voted in Israel’s election, which is great to see. Regardless if you’re on the right side, the left side, or the geno-cide.”
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I feel like these leaks are just meant to deter Hezbollah from getting involved. Because you can’t just “occupy” 3 hostile major urban centers without huge bloodshed and destruction.
Faytuks Network (@FaytuksNetwork) profile pictureFaytuks Network
@FaytuksNetworkNov 1
According to Maariv, the IDF intends to capture and occupy Tyre, Sidon, and Nabataea in the event that Hezbollah tries to challenge the IDF. Israel is preparing to provide particularly heavy firepower if Hezbollah gets involved. The Israeli navy is preparing to impose a naval blockade on the port of Beirut and the port of Tripoli in the north of the country.
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Also a naval blockade means they’d almost definitely bomb the Beirut airport runway.
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This is… something
Stephanie Bechara (@StephBechara) profile pictureStephanie Bechara
@StephBecharaOct 31
Télé Liban, Lebanon’s public broadcaster, announced the addition of a new AI reporter, “Talia,” to its team as part of its ‘modernization strategy and digital transformation efforts.’ teapaw.org/telelibantv/status/211…
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