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Shibley Telhami
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Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement

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Shibley Telhami is an American professor in the department of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a nonresident senior fellow of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. .. more

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 59m
Say what?
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1h
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who correctly remembers that contrary to trump's post, Joe Biden was NOT the President on January 6, 2021 -- trump was.

His delusional episodes are increasing, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1h
Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who correctly remembers that contrary to trump's post, Joe Biden was NOT the President on January 6, 2021 -- trump was.

His delusional episodes are increasing, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 7h
What a joke! Put aside Ukraine and the Middle East, just contemplate the potentially devastating implications of China's latest move on rare minerals to counter Trump's tariff war.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 7h
On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 7h
On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 8h
"What we really have is... a hostage release deal, a ceasefire with uncertain term - and a prayer. We don't have a peace deal."
My thoughts about Trump's Gaza deal, on @npr.org
www.npr.org/2025/10/11/n...
A foreign policy expert talks about prospects for peace marked by the Gaza ceasefire
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development at the University of Maryland, about the U.S.-brokered peace deal between Hamas and Israel.
www.npr.org
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 9h
“We’re playing 2-D chess while Beijing is playing 4-D chess”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.
Beijing’s rare earth crackdown lays bare the fusion of economic rivalry and national security risk.
www.politico.com
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 13h
Parts of the garden still think it’s spring!

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 15h
"Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal." wapo.st/471KaMZ
Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show
Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 16h
What values? Jared Kushner is clearly not speaking for Americans or Jewish Americans. Polls show half of all Americans say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and over 60% of Jewish Americans say Israel is guilty of war crimes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 16h
Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics
www.theguardian.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 22h
Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises wapo.st/4q6j4g8
Gazans will return to a shattered city after Israel leveled its high-rises
Israeli bombardment punched large holes in Gaza City’s skyline by repeatedly demolishing high-rise buildings containing hundreds of homes and businesses.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.
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The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 1d
Experts Kim Ghattas and @stelhami.bsky.social join @djrothkopf.bsky.social to explore the long-term implications of the ceasefire in Gaza and why nefarious actors in the region aren’t likely to grow a conscience any time soon. 
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home apnews.com/photo-galler...
Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian families who have been displaced by Israel's two-year war on Hamas have started returning to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli military announced...
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
Must read: The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-tru...
The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition
Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
No, this is not The Onion, it really is the White House spokesman: "President Trump... has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will" www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1d
"Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity" wapo.st/4q5wR6S
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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