Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social

Writer, translator, Beiruter. Senior editor at The Markaz review.

“It is incumbent upon us not… to get into debates about who is the tail and who the dog, when both are simply different heads of the same ravening beast.”

I wrote a letter from Beirut for The Markaz Review

themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a-time-of-monsters/
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That’s not what AlJazeera said though. And: Vance said it was a “misunderstanding” that Lebanon was part of the ceasefire (when it was clearly stated from the outset). US and Israel are always working in tandem, full partners in crime, but Israel allows the U.S. to pretends it’s not the evil empire
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Nothing the Israelis hate more than a ceasefire. Which is why they never, in fact, cease fire
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Such massacres, going on 80 yrs, are the price of Israel’s “right to exist as a Jewish state.” So when you say “I believe in Israel’s right to exist” you’re saying you’re ok with the mass death required to secure that existence. Learn how to say, loud & unashamed: No, Israel has no right to exist
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social
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"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
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At some point Israel abandoned all pretenses and decided to lean hard into the cartoonish evil it has always embodied
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400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming
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Everyone calling everyone. Hard to keep track of the locations of the strikes. People calling to check on me as I call others to check on them. I can’t describe the terror and chaos. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel
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Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social
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Every Middle Easterner who knows anything is going to be warning the world that you cannot trust Israel while we get ignored while Israel triggers another war and fucks it all up again.

Understand this if nothing else: Israeli politics needs war. That’s how they resolve tensions between them.
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Is anyone surprised?
Military belligerence is to Israel what swimming is to a shark
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2am in Beirut. The Israeli drone overhead is so loud I can hear it indoors, with all the windows shut, and noise canceling earbuds in. It’s been like this all evening. Seven hours without letup. Enough to drive you batshit. Demonic entity
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Hot take: The American regime absolutely cannot continue to publicly threaten Western Asia with a nuclear apocalypse even if all the experts think that Trump is not being serious.
I know our hysteria might come across as amusing to you but our history with your regime 100% validates that hysteria.
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Demonic entity populated by death-guzzling demons
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The full Israelification of politics
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Israel bombed a synagogue in Tehran today. Just as they did in Beirut in 1982. Israel hates pluralism, loathes the richness of multiculturalism (why the right wing love it so much). That caption on the cover of this Torah—“Hebrew text and Persian translation”—is everything Israel tries to snuff out
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Agree on “local voices”.
But the BBC went on to change this quote entirely without correction. Indicating it was invented wholesale. Also, that they would fabricate a quote this deranged & self-hating is indicative that they see Iranians as less than human, less even than animal
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Scenes from the strike:
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Israel is pounding Beirut on Easter Sunday. The last airstrike, in the Jnah neighborhood, full of refugees from other areas, is being reported as a massacre—20 casualties & counting. It was so loud in Ras Beirut my left ear is still throbbing something awful
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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The USA is the most malignant empire in human history.
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“Come closer” graffiti on a wall in Beirut
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For this month’s column, I received 2 letters from 2 readers in the diaspora watching a war being waged on their homes and families & unable to process the cognitive dissonance.

I hope the advice proves useful to others in a similar situation 🙏🏽 ❤️

themarkaz.org/dear-souseh-distressed-more-by-war/
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I know we all want the West to cut Israel off but that would be like a person cutting off their own foot. Besides the fact that all the western countries have spent significant political & financial capital defending its terror. So expect the worst in terms of escalation. Classic sunk cost fallacy
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How disgusting that we all have to pay the price for the US citizenry’s complacency and total political incompetence
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social
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The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.
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I’m sorry but I wish the US “left” had more juice than some shouting in public about how much they hate Trump before going back home to hang up their quirky hats. YOU ARE THE EVIL EMPIRE AT WHOSE HANDS MUCH OF THE WORLD IS DYING FFS. This is life & death, not electoral politicking. DO FUCKING BETTER
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Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza
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Ziad Abu-Rish @ziadaburish.bsky.social
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Listen to @warghetti.bsky.social and @justinsalhani.bsky.social discuss Israel's war on Lebanon.

thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/voices-from-lebanon-w-lina-mounzer-justin-salhani/
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social
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You can now listen to @warghetti.bsky.social, @justinsalhani.bsky.social and I talk about the Israeli war on Lebanon on @thefirethesetimes.com — wherever you get your podcasts

thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/27/voices-from-lebanon-w-lina-mounzer-justin-salhani/
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A very succinct explanation for the coming ugliness. And it WILL be ugly. And still Israel won’t be stopped; it will be the non-Israeli Jews who will suffer the consequences. And there will be no more language left to talk about it in bc they’ve emptied the accusation of antisemitism of all meaning
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