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Nous n'oublierons pas
Les 218 victimes
Les milliers de blessés
Et tout le peuple pris en otage.
#BeirutExplosion #BeirutBlast #August4
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🚨🇮🇱 WATCH: Arab Israelis are riding camels, horses, and donkeys to their local polling stations in the Negev.
The turnout today has been INSANE, and Netanyahu has been particularly outspoken about how concerned he is with high Arab voter turnout.
When the camels start showing up, things aren't looking good for Bibi... 😂
Writer: Michael
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On this Israeli election day, I’d recommend reading this extraordinary @haaretzcom interview with billionaire Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and once one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants.
One of Lauder’s most striking conclusions: “I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance.”
This is coming from someone who helped launch Netanyahu’s political career, introduced him to powerful figures in American politics and media, and secretly negotiated with Hafez al-Assad and Rafik Hariri on his behalf in the late 1990s.
In one of the interview’s biggest revelations, Lauder says Netanyahu agreed to a comprehensive peace deal with Syria and Lebanon, including withdrawal from the Golan Heights, but ultimately refused to sign it for political reasons.
“He chose politics over peace. He put his political future before the deal.”
Now 82, Lauder describes his profound disillusionment with Israel’s direction. After decades of supporting Israeli and Jewish institutions, he has sold his Tel Aviv apartment, given away his Be’er Sheva property, and says he has no intention of returning to Israel.
He warns that Netanyahu’s dependence on figures like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich is damaging Israel, alienating diaspora Jews and eroding support in Washington.
The interview is also full of fascinating details about Lauder’s role in Netanyahu’s political rise. The two became close friends in the 1980s, when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the UN, speaking almost daily at times.
Lauder says he introduced Netanyahu to speech coach Lilyan Wilder to improve his public speaking and, crucially, to Republican strategist Arthur Finkelstein, who would become instrumental in Netanyahu’s electoral success.
When Netanyahu left New York to pursue a political career in Israel, Lauder threw him a farewell party attended by some of the most influential figures in American media and politics, including Rupert Murdoch and the head of the New York Times.
Lauder recalls opening doors for Netanyahu and helping him cultivate the relationships that would underpin his rise to power.
What makes this interview so revealing is that Lauder is no longtime critic of Israel. He had been a committed Zionist, a Republican power broker, and a man who spent decades financing Jewish institutions, cultivating relationships with Arab leaders, and pursuing diplomatic openings on Israel’s behalf.
A fascinating read 👇
haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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🚨🇮🇱 Tuesday may be the most consequential election in Israel's history, and the 100,000 people in Hostages Square tonight know why: the world has stopped giving Israel the benefit of the doubt
The rally was about an inquiry into Oct. 7 that Netanyahu has blocked for three years, and the voices were bereaved fathers and freed hostages. But the subtext in the square was bigger than one commission.
It was the sense, said plainly by a first-time voter to AFP, that Israel has to change how the world sees it, and that Tuesday is the last clean chance to do that from the inside.
Years of war in Gaza, Lebanon and now Iran have done something no enemy managed: they turned ordinary public opinion in Israel's closest ally against it.
AIPAC quit endorsing candidates this week because its name costs votes.
A Democrat leading the Michigan Senate race calls Israel a friend who takes your money and starts your fights, and his numbers WENT UP.
The prime minister is campaigning on finishing Iran "together" with a president at 31% whose own voters are done with the war.
Fair or not, that bill doesn't stop at Israel's border.
And as unfair as it is... Jews in Paris, London and on American campuses get judged for decisions made in Jerusalem that they had no part in, and they’re the ones who absorb the hostility when Israel’s conduct goes wrong.
The world's message has been delivered loudly enough: change how you fight in Gaza, change how you treat Lebanon, change the assumption that Washington will always write the check.
A Netanyahu win promises the “job to finish” with Iran and another year of the same verdict from the same crowds abroad, and that verdict falls on Jews who never cast a ballot in Israel.
Tuesday is the day Israelis decide what the rest of the Jewish world has to answer for next.
Source: Times of Israel / AFP
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On @Reuters article below 👇, don’t spend too much time wondering why the cost of living of Lebanese people continues to deteriorate, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future as risk of war heightens further.
There is one main reason behind the double digit $ inflation that is sweeping through people’s lives and livelihood:
Inflation in #Lebanon is the cost of delayed restructuring 👇(see article below) . Everything else is a corollary to it.
substack.com/@thealiamoub/no…
When the central bank is insolvent and the treasury is in default, the President, PM, government and the mighty Lord, can’t do much about inflation at > 17%, unless they restore the capacity of the State to use monetary and fiscal policy to protect society.
Time to tell the Lebanese the truth & move ahead with an equitable restructuring that ensures accountability and builds a solid base for recovery. In the new Middle East, no one cares about bailing out Lebanon’s rotten state and those who capture it; not in war times nor in peace times.
Beirut's $13 chicken sandwich becomes symbol of Lebanon divide reut.rs/4snp6uk reut.rs/4snp6uk
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Israeli settlements have massively expanded in the occupied West Bank under the current Israeli government – along with a major spike in violent attacks on Palestinians. @JDiamond1 reports on how the government has allowed this and whether elections could prompt any change.
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#Breaking: European diplomats, including French and Polish representatives, who went to the West Bank to observe the olive harvest, have been violently assaulted by Israeli settlers.
تحية لهذه المبادرة العظيمة.
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Deadline - 12 November 2026!
Don’t miss your opportunity to shape the future of European democracy.
Participate in the #YourVoiceForDemocracy consultation here: panoramic.make.org/en/partne…
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Over 400 researchers and I have signed this open letter calling for the AI and security communities to come together to improve alignment and containment approaches in order to protect our critical infrastructure and digital systems.
ai-security-letter.org/
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٣٦ عاماً مضت وكأنها بالأمس. ١٣ تشرين الاول ١٩٩٠ يوم اجتاح جيش حافظ الاسد وزارة الدفاع والقصر الجمهوري. يوم الذي استشهد فيه اكثر من مئة شهيد من عسكريي الجيش اللبناني وعشرات المدنيين الشجعان الذين قاوموا في بسوس والحدث. يوم الذي اختفى فيه ٣٣ عسكرياً وعشرات المدنيين منهم الاب سليمان بوخليل والاب البير شرفان الانطونيان. وحتى الآن ما زال مصيرهم مجهولاً. النظام البعثي الذي اجتاح بعبدا في ١٣ تشرين الاول ١٩٩٠ انتهى هو في ٨ كانون الاول ٢٠٢٤ وارتاح منه العالم. ٣٦ عاماً كانت كافية لتطفو الرغوة على الوجه وتبيان من زحف لهذا النظام بعد ان كان يقول انه يقاومه وانا لا اتحدث عن السياسيين والقادة ففي لبنان يبدلون تحالفاتهم كما يبدلون ملابسهم الداخلية ولكن الذين كانوا في الصف الثاني والثالث والرابع من عسكريين ومدنيين تزاحموا لنيل رضا عنجر والبوريفاج واستهلكوا اطارات سياراتهم على طريق بيروت دمشق للحصول على مراكز عليا وصغرى وعلى كراسي مخلعة … بعد مرور هذه السنوات : كل هذه المراكز اصبحت في المزبلة واصحابها منهم من يخجل ومنهم لا يأبه ومستعد لقلب جاكيته في اي لحظة. رحم الله شهداء ١٣ تشرين وكان الله بعون المختفين قسراً وعائلاتهم.
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📚 Amin Maalouf : “Nous sommes en présence de deux évolutions majeures, portées par les mêmes avancées scientifiques, et porteuses elles-mêmes de bouleversements potentiels sans aucun précédent dans l’histoire. Deux évolutions parallèles, et que l’on peut voir comme contradictoires, puisqu’elles pourraient mener notre espèce aussi bien vers son apothéose que vers son anéantissement. Et, là encore, ce ne sont pas de simples métaphores. Si notre science parvient, dans les prochaines décennies, à maîtriser le processus de vieillissement de nos tissus et de nos organes, elle sera en mesure de prolonger la vie humaine de manière significative, voire, à terme, de manière illimitée. Mais si cette même science parvient à construire des machines supérieurement intelligentes, capables de s’affranchir de la tutelle humaine, elle aura créé les conditions d’une marginalisation irrévocable de notre espèce. Nous avançons donc, d’un même mouvement, vers deux destins contradictoires : devenir les maîtres de la Création, ou tomber dans l’insignifiance.”
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“À certains tournants de l’histoire, on a vu émerger des personnages hors pair, qui ont su s’élever au-dessus d’eux-mêmes, au-dessus de leur classe ou de leur nation, pour incarner les espérances universelles de leur temps. Aujourd’hui, on ne constate rien de tel. Quand je promène mon regard sur le monde, du nord au sud et de l’est à l’ouest, je vois peu de dirigeants remarquables, dotés d’une véritable autorité morale, porteurs d’une vision pour la terre entière, auxquels je confierais volontiers mon sort, celui des êtres qui me sont chers et celui des générations à venir.
La discordance entre les rythmes d’évolution est désormais si criante qu’elle en devient caricaturale. Dans les domaines scientifiques et techniques, notre espèce est en train de bousculer toutes les barrières ; plus aucune ambition ne paraît trop grande, plus aucun objectif ne paraît impossible à atteindre. Alors que, dans la gestion des affaires de la cité, au niveau des nations comme au niveau planétaire, c’est l’incurie, l’impuissance, la régression. Demeurée prisonnière de conceptions qui ont eu autrefois leur raison d’être, mais qui sont devenues, en ce siècle, inopérantes, destructrices, et globalement suicidaires, l’humanité semble avoir atteint, dans le champ politique, son seuil d’incompétence. Ce qui menace de réduire à néant les bienfaits que lui promet la science, et d’augmenter significativement, à l’inverse, les risques de dérapage.”
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🇺🇸 AI probably won’t wipe out humanity. The real danger may be much closer.
Gary Marcus thinks the AI debate is obsessing over the wrong nightmare.
He puts the probability of AI-driven human extinction in the next several years at “very close to zero.”
But that does not make him relaxed about AI.
Marcus separates the risk into three categories: P-Doom, extinction; P-Catastrophe, events capable of killing huge numbers of people; and P-Dystopia, the gradual destruction of privacy, reliable information and democratic institutions.
“Don’t panic about P-Doom, but worry a lot about P-Catastrophe and P-Dystopia.”
The catastrophe scenario is disturbingly mundane.
An AI hallucination contaminates an intelligence report. A military acts on false information. An automated system disrupts an electrical grid. A malicious actor uses cheap AI agents to manufacture propaganda or trigger a crisis.
Marcus says an AI-generated intelligence error has already brought the world uncomfortably close to a military confrontation.
“We’re rolling the dice here as a species.”
And then there is dystopia.
Marcus worries AI companies are accumulating enormous quantities of private information while governments and corporations gain increasingly powerful tools for shaping what people see and believe.
His argument is almost the reverse of the usual AI apocalypse story.
The machines do not need to become superintelligent and exterminate us.
AI can remain flawed, unreliable and very human-controlled, and still become extraordinarily dangerous.
@GaryMarcus
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Un photojournaliste de l'Agence France-Presse a été blessé mardi par des colons israéliens qui l'ont roué de coups et ont tiré des coups de feu dans sa direction alors qu'il était en reportage en Cisjordanie occupée
➡️ u.afp.com/S9yv
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A dangerous myth has gained traction after the recent hacks perpetrated by the AI agents developed by leading companies: That these incidents are just cyber security problems, that it's only a matter of fixing the sandboxes in which they’re trained.
In my latest op-ed for the @FinancialTimes, I share why I believe listening to this narrow perspective would leave us exposed to more similar incidents, while offering solutions for an alternative safer path.
Read my op-ed: [ft.com/content/7afaf77b-b027…]
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One reason Israel wanted UNRWA out of Gaza is to get rid of witnesses to genocide: "With 13,000 staff in Gaza, we were extremely well placed to describe the daily life and suffering of Gazans....The foreign press is still barred from entering Gaza." trib.al/olJtfRS
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Israël. L'Union européenne et ses États membres doivent "agir" face à un vaste projet décrié de colonisation israélienne en Cisjordanie occupée, demandent lundi dans une tribune quelque 500 anciens diplomates, ministres ou responsables européens.
Parmi eux figurent les anciens Premiers ministres et ministres des Affaires étrangères français Dominique de Villepin et Alain Juppé, les anciens Premiers ministres italien, Massimo D'Alema, belge, Yves Leterme, ou suédois, Stefan Löfven, ainsi que deux anciens présidents du Parlement européen, Josep Borrell et Enrique Baron Crespo.
Le gouvernement israélien doit bientôt attribuer les "contrats pour la première tranche du projet de colonisation illégal E1", rappellent les diplomates dans cette tribune publiée dans le quotidien français Libération. Ce projet prévoit la construction de plus de 1.200 logements près de Jérusalem.
Ce plan, approuvé par Israël l'an dernier après plusieurs décennies de gel, notamment sous la pressions des administrations américaines successives, isolerait davantage Jérusalem-Est, occupée puis annexée par Israël, du reste de la Cisjordanie, mettant encore plus en péril la possibilité d'un futur État palestinien.
La justice israélienne a ordonné le 27 septembre le report d'un mois de l'ouverture de l'appel d'offres pour le projet, afin que le sujet ne perturbe pas les législatives prévues fin octobre.
"Malgré les conséquences considérables de cette nouvelle annexion de terres, l'Union européenne n'a pris aucune mesure pour dissuader la réalisation du projet E1 ni, plus généralement, n'a respecté ses obligations, découlant des traités européens, d'agir face aux violations du droit international", dénoncent les signataires.
Ils saluent "le fait que certains États membres de l'UE ont pris des mesures nationales à l'encontre des colonies illégales", mais dénoncent les positions d'autres États "notamment l'Allemagne et l'Italie" qui "continuent systématiquement de bloquer l'adoption de mesures au niveau européen, devenant ainsi de facto complices de l'affaiblissement des valeurs de l'UE et de la solution à deux États".
Ils demandent à la Commission européenne de présenter "immédiatement des propositions législatives" pour "sanctionner toutes les institutions financières et autres prestataires de services participant à la mise en oeuvre du projet E1 et d'autres colonies illégales" et à "empêcher tout commerce de l'UE avec les colonies illégales".
Ils appellent également l'UE à "mettre en oeuvre les propositions" visant à "suspendre les dispositions commerciales de l'accord d'association entre l'UE et Israël".
Ces mesures doivent être prises "lors de la prochaine réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères de l'UE, le 12 octobre", exhortent encore les diplomates.
Israël occupe la Cisjordanie depuis 1967. La colonisation s'y est poursuivie depuis, mais a explosé ces dernières années.
Plus de 500.000 Israéliens vivent dans des colonies en Cisjordanie occupée, aux côtés de quelque trois millions de Palestiniens.
#Colonisation
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*🇱🇧 عندما قالت فيروز "لا" لرئيس.. فسكتت الإذاعة ونطق الشعب*
في سنة 1965، نزل ضيف كبير على بيروت، الرئيس التونسي الحبيب بورقيبة، وكان حلمو يسمع فيروز عن قرب.
الدولة اللبنانية، برئاسة شارل حلو، حضّرت المسرح والأنوار في تياترو لبنان، ودعت فيروز والرحابنة ليغنوا للضيف حفلاً يليق بلبنان، موشحات تطير، ولوحات وطنية، وصوت فلسطين يطلع من حنجرة جارتنا القمر.
وافقت فيروز، وحضّرت قلبها قبل صوتها..
وفجأة، بيجي الخبر: مش حفل وطن، هو عشاء خاص وضيّق، بعيد ميلاد الرئيس.
هون.. وقفت فيروز.
وقفة عمرها كلو. قالت كلمتها اللي ما بتنسى:
*أنا بغني للشعوب، للأوطان، للإنسان.. ما بغني للكراسي.*
مبدأ عمره ما انكسر. هي اللي ما غنّت يوم لملك ولا لرئيس، غنّت لعمان والقدس وبيروت وشام.. للمدن اللي ما بتموت.
اعتذارها عمل زلزال سياسي. حاولت الدولة تلمّ الموقف بحفل بديل فيه وديع وصباح ونصري، بس بورقيبة ما إجا، قال مريض.
وغضب السراي.. رئيس الحكومة حسين العويني اعتبر الـ "لا" إهانة، فأصدر أمره الشفهي: *امنعوا صوتها عن الإذاعة.*
سكتت الإذاعة اللبنانية.. بس لبنان ما سكت.
الصحف غليت، الناس نزلت عالشارع، ومجلة الأسبوع العربي حطت صورتها عالغلاف وكتبت الجملة اللي صارت تاريخ:
*"الرئيس عويني يقول: حلوا عني أنتم وفيروز"*
قديش فيك تمنع صوت وطن؟
تحت ضغط الناس، تراجع القرار، ورجع صوتها يملي الهوا.. أقوى من قبل.
والمفارقة الأجمل؟ بعد سنين، راحت فيروز على تونس، وغنّت قدام عشرات الآلاف، والشعب التونسي شالها على كتافو.. ليثبت إنها ما رفضت تونس، رفضت أن يتحول الفن لمدح.
فيروز ما كانت مطربة.. كانت موقف.
(منقول)
