Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

"Rarely do we reach truth except through extremes—We must have foolishness... even to exhaustion, before we arrive at the beautiful goal of calm wisdom." —Schiller

This version of modern Jewish identity, recast within the semantic field of Otherness, is structured around a constellation of derivative tropes: the Jew as exile, the Jew as diasporic, the Jew as victim, the Jew as prophetic conscience. The Jew as countercultural herald, as a…

How the Middle East broke? It’s not just Islam, as some on the right claim. Nor is it all Western imperialism and capitalism, as the left insists. The truth is stranger. The always fascinating @HusseinAboubak with @havivrettiggur podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ask…

I missed this sharp 2023 piece by @HusseinAboubak on a familiar nemesis to those who’ve fought Khamenei’s regime: Rob Malley. Since then, Israel & the US pummeled Iran’s proxies & nuke program — the regime has never been weaker. But did Malley’s delusions take the same beating?

What broke the Middle East? It isn't a crisis of internal Islamic failure, as conservative thinkers argue, nor a crisis forged and sustained purely by Western imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and the other nefarious isms of the left-wing lexicon. It is something stranger. >>

The sum of these parallel strategies—outsourced opposition management abroad and bifurcated political patronage at home—is a system of influence so deeply embedded that it has become nearly impossible to combat. By cultivating a diverse portfolio of leverage points, Qatar has…

"Paul represents not merely the beginning of Christian theology, but its founding theological orientation: toward vision, toward transcendence, toward a kind of knowledge that shatters the self. My position is that German philosophy is fundamentally an inversion of the original…

"The truth is, Faust was a post-Christian man. That is, his personality, his inner structure of desire, was still formed by a pious past. Goethe encodes this in Faust’s yearning for the Mass, for the sacred forms he could no longer believe in but could not forget. He had rejected…

"While the nineteenth century produced many works in which civilized European men faced monsters, works that meditate on supernaturalism, naturalism, and occultism, it is in Dracula that the underlying terror of the 19th century revolution of meaning, and in whose aftermath we…

The most plausible thing I read about this so far. Nothing else makes sense.

All Shara'a should quietly leak to the Israelis the names and locations of all the unruly elements he can't control, let former strike latter, and then condemn Israel for its attack. Effective way to consolidate power and get people to rally around him.

I’m concerned the Israelis may have fallen into a trap on this one. This chain of events asks me to believe that after al-Sharaa traveled to Baku and met with Israelis there, he then chose to provoke a conflict with them over the Druze. Really? I’m skeptical. An alternative…

Kind of hard to deny the tons of footage showing official government soldiers and security services officials humiliating, shaving beards and mustaches, abusing other civilians (many elders) and executing Druze, including families. And yet, our intelligence — which probably…

Today I learned from my Alawaite Uber driver that if you watch Ahmed Al Shara'a playing basketball you will see that he plays like an American, not like Syrians or Iraqis do. This clearly shows that he was trained by thr CIA and Mossad.

"Where the masculine regime imposed itself through visible structures—steel, blood, soil, law, punishment, conquest, and external command—the feminine regime governs through invisibility, through the slow saturation of the affective sphere. Its medium is not discipline but care,…