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  1. ๐—ž๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—›๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ท ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ-๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜

    Kroonprins Hussein en zijn vrouw prinses Rajwa van Jordaniรซ hebben dinsdagavond de diploma-uitreiking bijgewoond van de Al Hussein Technische Universiteit (HTU) in Amman. In totaal studeerden 450 leerlingen af aan de instelling die dit jaar tien jaar bestaat. Het paar feliciteerde de...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Kroonprins #Hussein #DiplomaUitreiking

  2. ๐—ž๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—›๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ท ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ-๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜

    Kroonprins Hussein en zijn vrouw prinses Rajwa van Jordaniรซ hebben dinsdagavond de diploma-uitreiking bijgewoond van de Al Hussein Technische Universiteit (HTU) in Amman. In totaal studeerden 450 leerlingen af aan de instelling die dit jaar tien jaar bestaat. Het paar feliciteerde de...

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Kroonprins #Hussein #DiplomaUitreiking

  3. Massive Shiite crowds mark the holy day of Ashoura against backdrop of Iran-Israel-U.S. war fallout

    NABATIYEH, Lebanon โ€” Shiite Muslims on Friday marked Ashoura, one of the most important days on their calendar, with largeโ€ฆ
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #86-year-oldkhamenei #ashoura #Beirut #breakingnews #friday #HassanNasrallah #hussein #Iran #IranbackedHezbollah #Islam #Israel #NaimKassem #place #seventh-centurykilling #shiites #War
    newsbeep.com/612398/

  4. ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—›๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฝ ๐—ช๐—ž

    Koning Abdullah, kroonprins Hussein, prinses Rajwa en prinses Iman hebben het Jordaanse elftal zien spelen tegen Algerije. De wedstrijd vond plaats in het San Francisco Bay Area Stadium tijdens het WK voetbal. De Jordaanse ploeg verloor de pot met 1-2.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Abdullah #Hussein #WK

  5. ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ต ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—›๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฝ ๐—ช๐—ž

    Koning Abdullah, kroonprins Hussein, prinses Rajwa en prinses Iman hebben het Jordaanse elftal zien spelen tegen Algerije. De wedstrijd vond plaats in het San Francisco Bay Area Stadium tijdens het WK voetbal. De Jordaanse ploeg verloor de pot met 1-2.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

    #Abdullah #Hussein #WK

  6. Analizฤƒ ๐Ÿ“ฐ#FinancialTimes. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ#SUA nu doar cฤƒ nu mai sunt un partener de รฎncredere, ci au ajuns sฤƒ provoace crize economice globale, aศ™a cum au fฤƒcut Vladimir #Putin sau Saddam #Hussein รฎn trecut. Durata actualului ศ™oc petrolier, care este deja cel mai mare din istorie, depinde doar de decizia lui #Trump de a pune capฤƒt rฤƒzboiului.

    ๐Ÿ”— biziday.ro/?p=356069

    #ศ˜tiri #Rusia #Economie

  7. Als ich Karoline Leavitt, die Pressesprecherin von Donald #Trump, in irgend einem Videoclip sah, fiel mir "Baghdad Bob" und das engl. Idiom ein: "putting lipstick on a pig"

    Wobei man unterscheiden muss: Auch wenn #Hussein ein Verbrecher war (u.a wegen des westlich unterstรผtzten Giftgas-Einsatzes des #Irak gegen den #Iran, 1983-1888, de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemiewa ), sprach as-Sahhaf 2003 fรผr das Opfer des vรถlkerrechtswidrigen Angriffs der #USA, G.W. #Bush & T. #Blair. Das ist bei #Leavitt heute anders

  8. News Analysis: Toppling Iraq's Hussein unleashed chaos. Why Iran war poses similar risks

    misryoum.com/us/politics/news-

    A shock-and-awe campaign laying down a tsunami of bombs. An enemy succumbing rapidly under overwhelming firepower. And a triumphant U.S. president trumpeting a quick and easy campaign.In 2003, President George W. Bush strode confidently on the deck of an...

    #News #Analysis #Toppling #Iraqs #Hussein #unleashed #chaos #Why #Iran #war #poses #similar #risks #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  9. The Gulf War Lies




    The initial excuse given by the #Bush administration was that U.S. forces were needed in the Middle East to defend Saudi Arabia from an impending Iraqi invasion. But if the Iraqis intended to take Saudi Arabia, why did they not move into that country immediately after grabbing Kuwait and well before U.S. troops arrived? Contrary to the disinformation passed around, journalists could find no Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border.

    Bush claimed that his attack came only after "months of constant and virtually endless diplomatic activity," and that Iraq displayed no interest in a negotiated settlement. This was an outright lie.

    In the one "diplomatic" session held with the Iraqis by Secretary of State Baker in Geneva, he simply ordered them to leave Kuwait. By his own account, Baker made no effort to explore Iraq's grievances with Kuwait. When the Iraqis floated peace feelers through the remainder of 1990, they were ignored by the White House.

    The Bush administration was spoiling for the one-sided fight. White House spokespersons were quoted as describing an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait as "the nightmare scenario." Why so? Would not the avoidance of war have been a dream scenario? The policymakers understood that a peaceful withdrawal would remove the casus belli and deprive the president of "a glorious victory against aggression."

    The president also claimed he was concerned with protecting human rights in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Middle East. But there was precious little democracy in any of the region's feudal emirates and autocracies. In Saudi Arabia, women were still stoned to death on charges of adultery.

    In Kuwait, democratic councils and other organized political groupings were regularly crushed. One filthy-rich family controlled the country's politico- economic life.

    It was also maintained that the United States was upholding the United Nations commitment to defend member states against aggression. But why

    only in this instance? Both Syria and Israel invaded Lebanon and still occupied portions of that country; Turkey grabbed half of Cyprus; Morocco waged a war of aggression against the Western Sahara; Indonesia invaded and annexed East Timor at a great loss of Timorese lives. Yet Washington maintained close and supportive relations with all these aggressors. When Iraq invaded Iran, a few years before the Gulf War, Washington sent military aid to both countries. U.S. leaders themselves invaded Grenada and Panama. One can look with skepticism on Washington's sudden and highly principled intolerance of aggression.

    In August 1990, Bush asserted that he was trying to prevent Saddam from monopolizing "all the world's great oil reserves." This alibi at least brought us closer to the truth: oil was definitely a consideration. But the charge was false. No single producer can control the global oil market, not even a powerful consortium like OPEC, let alone an individual leader like Saddam. Even with the 1990 embargo that cut off the oil from Iraq, the world's net petroleum production remained roughly the same.

    The White House then charged that Iraq posed a nuclear threat. This polemic was tacked on to Bush's list of pretexts months after he had embarked upon intervention and immediately after opinion polls showed Americans responded apprehensively to the possibility of Iraq's developing a nuclear capability. In any case, with sanctions in place, it was impossible for Iraq to get the necessary materials to build a nuclear bomb.

    In November 1990, Secretary Baker argued that the intervention would safeguard jobs at home.

    This was the first time anyone in Bush's national security entourage had evinced concern for the nation's work force. Nobody specified how a costly massacre in the Middle East would protect jobs at home. In fact, after the war, unemployment increased slightly. Besides, there were more effective and less horrible ways of keeping Americans employed than wreaking destruction upon another nation.

    Some Real Reasons

    There were a number of compelling considerations for war against Iraq that the Bush administration preferred to leave unmentioned. First, #Saddam #Hussein was trying to stop the Kuwaiti slant drilling into his oil reserves and was trying to bolster the oil price he could get. His temerity in putting considerations about his own country's economy ahead of the interests of the international oil cartel suddenly made him an unpopular personage in Washington.

    Second, thanks to the major networks, the Gulf War served as a video promotional event for the military-industrial complex, a rescue operation for a bloated defense budget. In July 1990, for the first time in years, the Democratic leadership in Congress was talking about real cuts in military spending. The Gulf War hoopla brought Congress meekly back into line.

    Third, the quick and easy victory was a promotional event for interventionism itself, a cure for the "Vietnam syndrome" (that is, the public's unwillingness to commit U.S. forces to violent conflicts abroad). The Gulf War seemed to solve a problem U.S. interventionists long have faced: how to engage in military action without a serious loss of American lives. (Their concern was more political than humanitarian. Heavy losses make the intervention unpopular with the U.S. public.) The way to economize on American lives was to apply an air, land, and sea firepower of such superior magnitude that it could destroy the opponent's military capacity, infrastructure, and life support systems without any great commitment of U.S. troops.

    It is not true, as was claimed by antiwar activists, that Iraq was bombed back into the nineteenth century. Iraq in the nineteenth century had a productive base roughly commensurate with the population needs of that time. The destruction created a far greater crisis than that. In March 1991, a United Nations mission to Iraq reported that the conflict "has wrought near- apocalyptic results" by destroying "most means of modern life support," relegating Iraq "to a preindustrial age, but with all the disabilities of post- industrial dependency on intensive use of energy and technology."

    Not without cause did U.S. militarists boast that the attacks were "surgical." True, most of the bombs were free-falling and killed people wantonly. But the thousands of air strikes did surgically remove most of Iraq's electrical systems and seriously damaged the agricultural system. Without electricity, water could not be purified, sewage could not be treated. Hunger, cholera, and other diseases flourished.

    The Gulf War was followed by a vindictive United Nations embargo that several years later still denied Iraq the technological resources to rebuild its food production, medical dervices, and sanitation facilities. As late as 1993, CNN reported that nearly 300,000 Iraqi children were suffering from malnutrition. Deaths exceeded the normal rate by 125,000 a year, mostly affecting "the poor, their infants, children, chronically ill, and elderly" (Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1994). Iraqi citizens, who previously had enjoyed a decent living standard, were reduced to destitution. So was realized one of the perennial goals of imperialism: to reduce to impotence and poverty all potential adversaries and upstarts.

    Fourth, the Gulf crisis allowed U.S. leaders to establish a long-term military presence in the Middle East, a region of troubled regimes and abundant oil reserves. U.S. forces now could more immediately and effectively safeguard existing autocracies from their own restive populations.

    Fifth, many wars are begun, noted Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 6, because of the political interests of leaders. By plunging into conflicts abroad, they seek to diminish the impact of troublesome issues at home, thereby securing their political fortunes. The war against Iraq came in the middle of a serious recession, one that President Bush was more interested in ignoring than resolving. In July 1990, his popularity also was slumping badly because of the savings and loan scandal. Every evening, TV news programs were peeling off successive layers of corruption, thievery, bribery, and plunder of the public treasury, in what was the greatest financial conspiracy in the history of the world. But once the media became preoccupied with selling the high-tech video war, the savings and loan issue was dropped from the evening news. The Gulf victory also made it harder to investigate disclosures implicating Bush in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, as he basked in what seemed like an untouchable popularity.

    While the war was still in progress, I wrote in CovertAction Information Bulletin (Spring 1991): "The morning after victory, more of the American public may begin to wonder if the bloodshed and the $80 billion bill was worth it. They might recall that the only war worth supporting is what Benjamin Franklin called 'the best war,' the one that is never fought." Indeed, the slaughter perpetrated against Iraq and all its attendant hoopla were not enough to carry Bush to reelection the following year.

    "Against Empire" by Michael Parenti
    #^https://archive.org/details/against-empire_202601

    #USA #usa #US #us #american #government #politics #western #propaganda #lie #deception #fraud #corruption #deepstate #imperialism #militarycapitalism #Pentagon #pentagon #military #warmongers #violencesystem #economy #murders #deaths #bombings #war-crimes #war #gulfwar against #civilians #humanrights #Iraq #iraq #kuwait #history #book

    Additionally:

    The Nayirah testimony




    The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who was publicly identified only as Nayirah at the time, and presented herself as having been a volunteer nurse at a Kuwaiti hospital at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In her testimony, which took place two months after the invasion, she claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking premature babies out of incubators in a maternity ward before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor. Nayirah's statements were widely publicized and cited numerous times in the United States Senate and by American president George H. W. Bush to contribute to the rationale for pursuing military action against Iraq. Her portrayal of Iraqi war crimes was aimed at further increasing global support for Kuwait against the Iraqi occupation during the Gulf War, which resulted in the expulsion of Iraqi troops from Kuwait by a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
    #^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
  10. #Preศ™edintelePalestinei รฎl numeศ™te pe #Hussein al-Sheikh vicepreศ™edinte al Organizaศ›iei pentru Eliberarea Palestinei ศ™i, cel mai probabil, succesor al sฤƒu.

    ๐Ÿ”— wp.me/p9KpFA-4m2C

    #ศ˜tiri #Palestina

  11. #Preศ™edintelePalestinei รฎl numeศ™te pe #Hussein al-Sheikh vicepreศ™edinte al Organizaศ›iei pentru Eliberarea Palestinei ศ™i, cel mai probabil, succesor al sฤƒu.

    ๐Ÿ”— wp.me/p9KpFA-4m2C

    #ศ˜tiri #Palestina

  12. No, after #Duterte is in custody of the #ICC, it's not "#Putin next" or "#Netanyahu next".

    They are but 2 of currently 30 defendants who are at large, and all "next".

    icc-cpi.int/defendants?f%5B0%5

  13. .@eucopresident @antoniolscosta, President of the European Council, meets His Majesty @KingAbdullahII, King of #Jordan, and His Royal Highness AL-#HUSSEIN Bin Abdullah II @RHCJO, Crown Prince of Jordan, on 29 January 2025 in #Brussels.
    newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/p
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    nitter.privacydev.net/EUCounci

  14. .@eucopresident @antoniolscosta, President of the European Council, meets His Majesty @KingAbdullahII, King of #Jordan, and His Royal Highness AL-#HUSSEIN Bin Abdullah II @RHCJO, Crown Prince of Jordan, on 29 January 2025 in #Brussels.
    newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/p
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    nitter.privacydev.net/EUCounci

  15. โฌ†๏ธ @homohortus

    #Hussein and his sons put their personal lives in danger when they launched the #ArabRevolt against #Turkey. They fully deserved the freedom.

    #Palestinians, OTOH, never fought for their freedom.

    The main culprits were #Turkey and #Russia. There was much duplicity, especially between #Britain and #France, who sought advantage in the conflict for their own colonial ambitions.

    How is it, then, that the blame ALWAYS goes to the #UnitedStates, #Jews, #Zionists, and #Israel?

  16. โฌ†๏ธ @homohortus

    #Hussein wanted #British as much as they wanted him, and he too was willing to POSTPONE settling the #BorderIssue.

    Both parties were in a hurry as #WWI was raging and #Hussein and his sons were directly under threat from #Turkey.

    Britain NEVER offered #Palestine to #Arabs โ€” before, during, or after #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence.

    They did offer it to Turkey.

    Repeatedly.

    But Turkey refused to exit WWI. After Turkey lost, Palestine went into an International Condominium

    โฌ‡๏ธ

  17. โฌ†๏ธ @homohortus

    #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence refined the vague borders of the original #Kitchener letter and carved OUT specific areas, including #Palestine, from a future #Arabia.

    SUBJECT to above modifications, the #British accepted rest of the limits, frontiers, and borders advocated by #DamascusProtocol.

    Nov 5, 1915: #Hussein refused to budge on #Arab claims to land west of #Damascus, #Hama, #Homs & Aleppo, including #Alexandretta, giving rise to #Britain's #ForwardPolicy.

    โฌ‡๏ธ

  18. โฌ†๏ธ @homohortus

    BEFORE the #ArabRevolt in #WWI, secret #Arab societies hiding from #YoungTurks unilaterally drafted the #DamascusProtocol and offered it to Grand Sherif #Hussein as a blueprint to negotiate Arab independence with #Britain.

    Britain never agreed to the Damascus Protocol and made an offer based on vague borders per #Kitchener's letter.

    Hussein was in a hurry. Instead of looking at actual British offer, he got fixated on Damascus Protocol.

    #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence ensued.

    โฌ‡๏ธ

  19. โฌ†๏ธ @homohortus

    In 1913, #Britain was with #Arabs & #OldTurks in #Turkey and rebuffed #Zionist Nahum #Sokolow.

    In 1914, Turkey entered #WWI against Allies Britain & #France.

    Britain repeatedly tried to parley with #OldTurks, encouraged them to exit the war, and dangled #Palestine, but Turkey refused EVERY TIME.

    Separately, #YoungTurks in Committee Of Union and Progress (#CUP) were scheming to depose Arab Chief #Hussein.

    So it was Turkey that antagonized BOTH Arabs and British.

    #ArabRevolt
    โฌ‡๏ธ

  20. #gold #treasure #Iraq #Hussein

    In 2003, American troops seized $868.35 million worth of gold bars from a truck in Iraq. These are their photographs of their finds featuring Saddam Hussein's gold.

    All that gold couldn't buy the dictator's freedom.

  21. Imagini impresionante de la Jocurile Paralimpice #Paris 2024.
    Poveศ™tile incredibile ale lui Matt Stutzman, primul arcaศ™ fฤƒrฤƒ braศ›e care a cรขศ™tigat medalia de aur ศ™i a lui Ibrahim Al #Hussein, sirianul de la triatlon, al cฤƒrui destin a fost schimbat de explozia unui obuz.

    ๐Ÿ”— wp.me/p9KpFA-3Nbx

    #ศ˜tiri #Franศ›a #Siria

  22. Imagini impresionante de la Jocurile Paralimpice #Paris 2024.
    Poveศ™tile incredibile ale lui Matt Stutzman, primul arcaศ™ fฤƒrฤƒ braศ›e care a cรขศ™tigat medalia de aur ศ™i a lui Ibrahim Al #Hussein, sirianul de la triatlon, al cฤƒrui destin a fost schimbat de explozia unui obuz.

    ๐Ÿ”— wp.me/p9KpFA-3Nbx

    #ศ˜tiri #Franศ›a #Siria

  23. โฌ†๏ธ >> #Palestinians never fought for freedom

    They never fought for freedom despite being under the #TurkishYoke since 1517 the way #Arabs under #Hussein did in 1917.

    Thatโ€™s how Arabs earned their freedom, but Palestinians never did.

    Instead, egged on by Arab neighbors, they let the neighbors fight #inTheirName ever since 1947 (and later #Hamas) without taking their destiny in their own hands

    @ajaykaul10 @ekis @Properganda @tartley @Lane @chiclet @GatekeepKen @nikatjef @Grant_M @CivilityFan

  24. โฌ†๏ธ @ajaykaul10

    Nice explanation of #ThievesBanquet โ€” WHY #Britain carved out #Palestine.

    #DamascusProtocol was crafted unilaterally by secret Arab societies but Britain never promised Palestine to #Hussein in #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence.

    Britain rebuffed #zionism in 1914 & tried repeatedly to get #Turkey out of #WWI in exchange for Palestine, but Turkey refused.

    Palestinians never fought for freedom.

    @ekis @Properganda @tartley @Lane @chiclet @GatekeepKen @nikatjef @Grant_M @CivilityFan

  25. โฌ†๏ธ @8124

    Iโ€™m not making this remark callously.

    #GrandSharif #Hussein of #Mecca actually fought the #Ottoman #Turks for #Arab independence.

    He knowingly put his personal life and the lives of his 3 sons in mortal danger. So the freedom would have been totally earned.

    What was the role of #Palestinians in this struggle during #WWI? Did they fight for their freedom or did they just wanted it handed to them on a platter?

    Oh wait. In 1947, it was handed to them on a platter, but they kicked it

  26. Do you remember how #Saddam #Hussein ended up?
    hanged...
    I saw the whole video
    (before it was 'erased' from the net)
    ... TERRIBLE
    Really nightmarish
    ...
    For #Putin...
    it must be WAY -worse-

  27. Do you remember how #Saddam #Hussein ended up?
    hanged...
    I saw the whole video
    (before it was 'erased' from the net)
    ... TERRIBLE
    Really nightmarish
    ...
    For #Putin...
    it must be WAY -worse-

  28. Untangling #DamascusProtocol dreamed up by #Arab secret societies on their own from the actual #British offer to Grand Sharif #Hussein of #Mecca โ€” recognizing Arab independence from #TurkishYoke โ€” in exchange for Arabs revolting against #Turks in #WWI

    #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence โžก๏ธ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

    Meme inspired by @8124 -- Thanks!

    #Ottomans #Palestine

  29. #Kitchener's misunderstanding of #Islam โžก๏ธ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1
    โ€” monolithic homogenous bloc controlled by the #Caliph &
    โ€” blind spot toward the #Shia-#Sunni divide
    were magnified by his failure to understand the constitutional nature of #Islamic society.

    In choosing Grand Sharif #Hussein as the #Arabian #Caliph, the #British intention was only to prop up the "Pope" of Islam, and through that Islamic papacy, control #Britain's #muslim subjects all over the world.

    โฌ‡๏ธ

    #PeaceToEndAllPeace

  30. โฌ†๏ธ
    #Kitchener's mistake in choosing #Hussein & #Arabia as representative of ALL #muslims based on his misunderstanding of religious differences was responsible for 4 decades of #proxyWars between #ArabLeague states & #Iran's theocracy-backed #AxisOfResistance, until the secret #rapprochement brokered between them by #China in March 2023

    #British mistake in offering independence based on vague borders & #Hussein's subsequent confusion were addressed in #McMahonHusseinCorrespondence, but in vain.

  31. โฌ†๏ธ

    It was #misfortune compounded by #misunderstanding.

    Misfortune was that #Abdullah's initial contact with #British in 1914 had already primed them into choosing #Hussein in 1915 without considering ALTERNATIVES.

    The misunderstandings were 2-fold:

    1. Misunderstanding on #Kitchener's part about a monolithic homogenous #Islamic bloc & blind spot over the #Shia-#Sunni divide, and

    2. Misunderstanding on #Hussein's part in conflating #DamascusProtocol and British offer of Independence

    โฌ‡๏ธ

  32. Joint doorstep by @JosepBORRELL and Fuad #Hussein, Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations Affairs and Minister for Foreign Affairs of #Iraq, at today's #EUIraq Cooperation Council in #Brussels.
    "Iraq has made a lot of progress"
    newsroom.consilium.europa.eu/e

    ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: n.respublicae.eu/EUCouncilTVNe

  33. "Giftgasanschlag gegen #Kurden โ€“ Vรถlkermord mit deutscher Beihilfe in Halabja?"

    "Am 16. Mรคrz 1988 lieรŸ Saddam #Hussein die kurdische Stadt #Halabja im Nordirak mit Giftgas bombardieren. Innerhalb weniger Stunden sterben 5.000 Menschen, Zehntausende werden verwundet."

    swr.de/swr2/wissen/der-giftgas