Alberto Miguel Fernandez
@AlbertoMiguelF5
Retired US diplomat, Havana, Miami and the Middle East. Tweets in English, Arabic and Spanish. Views my own. #KofC
Illustration of what I wrote about yesterday, in the @NCRegister: everyone wants to play the Christian angle - either hyping or minimizing or manipulating - using the best spin possible. Syria's Interior Ministry doing it here. Every regime in the Middle East does it.
العميد أحمد الدالاتي، قائد الأمن في السويداء، التقى يوم أمس عدداً من العائلات والموظفين المدنيين المحتجزين الذين تم إجلاؤهم من المدينة، وذلك برفقة العميد شاهر جبر، قائد الأمن في درعا، في إطار تنفيذ اتفاق التهدئة، وتأكيداً على حرص الدولة على سلامة المدنيين وتأمين خروجهم الآمن
"UAD’s co-hosting events with designated foreign terror organization PFLP-linked figures like Khaled Barakat and rhetoric like “bring the war home” may underpin classified national security concerns that would continue to play a part in Khalil’s removal proceedings."
Publicly filed court papers and evidence released by attorneys during litigation in Mahmoud Khalil’s removal proceedings involved denied motions for discovery—per statutes, due to lack of jurisdiction as the IJ has none to review the Secretary of State’s foreign policy…
Cuba today is essentially a plantation run by and for the Army with the help of some Communist Party apparatchiks.
Cuba isn’t open for business—it’s rigged for the regime cronies. Cuba forces private foreign companies into joint ventures with the regime, takes at least 60% of the profits, and holds the rest hostage. And it rarely pays its bills. No investor wants that. Cuban corruption, not…
"For these respectable people, accustomed to living in luxury thanks to government subsidies enjoyed by the art and media world, the opening of a mini-market is a nuisance, not to say a crime."
Art, Toilet Paper, and Local Panic When it comes to retaining its voters, the Left suddenly becomes a fierce defender of traditional French values. @HLauzun 👇 europeanconservative.com/articles/comme…
More drones from Iran?
It appears SAF has recently acquired new long-range drones, enabling a wave of precise, well-coordinated strikes against the UAE-backed RSF militia. The hit on Al-Muthallath isn’t the first; it signals an emerging trend of successful drone operations by the army. Among the most…
Great move. Should have happened decades ago.
.@StateDept is opening an investigation into Harvard’s authority to sponsor exchange visas. Visa sponsorship is a privilege, and sponsors whose conduct tarnishes our nation’s interests will lose that privilege.
"Father Bedari never parted from two things: his prayer rosary and his pistol — symbolizing his dual commitment to faith and defense of his people. His pistol remains preserved today in the Chaldean parish of Jesus the King in Hasakah."
Father Paul Bedari remains an essential figure for understanding the history of Syriac Christians in the 20th century @Ykaliany providencemag.com/2025/07/never-…
So the Russians in 2016 thought they had "kompromat" on an American presidential candidate and that candidate was Hillary Clinton.
BREAKING Newly declassified documents via @DNIGabbard challenge January 2017 intelligence community asssesment (ICA) that "Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump." KEY PAGES: 16-17 Declassified GOP House Intel Report found…
Looks like the lair of Mothra or Rodan.
Aogashima Volcano, Japan, about 400km off the coast of Tokyo
"Court eunuchs like Colbert would commit ritual suicide before offending their naked emperors, so all they’re left with is vaudevillian chorus lines of dancing COVID vaccines (a real thing that actually happened)."
My take on Colbert for @theammind: is it possible what pisses him off most about Trump is that he makes people laugh? Read the rest here: americanmind.org/salvo/how-trum…
"The conflict has claimed the lives of about 150,000 people and forced about 12 million others from their homes - roughly the equivalent of the population of Tunisia or Belgium." bbc.com/news/articles/…
"A hyperfocus on outsiders at the expense of locals?" You don't say.
🇵🇷 VIDEO: Gentrification in Puerto Rico triggers displacement and anger Like many Puerto Ricans, Gloria Cuevas was forced out of her rental home in Rincón by the rising cost of living and an explosion of short-term rentals on the Caribbean island.
"Hezbollah tells their ally Nabih Berri that it will not surrender any of its weapons and that it will fight with any state (meaning the Lebanese state) who tries to disarm them." Lebanon to remain in bondage and war.
مصادر #العربية: الجناح العسكري لـ"حزب الله" يبلغ نبيه بري بأنه لن يسلم سلاحه.. حتى وإن تعهد أحد بذلك أو انسحبت #إسرائيل.. وجاهز للتصادم مع الدولة إذا أرادت #لبنان
My latest, just out at @NCRegister. Regardless of Joel Berry's recent controversial words, minimizing, exaggerating or manipulating Middle East Christian dead is nothing new. Unfortunately. ncregister.com/commentaries/b…
