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ADDENDUM:
This site operates more at the philosophical level of the communist/Islamic revolution which is obliterating Western Civilization. Politics, culture, law are all down stream from philosophy. Understanding the philosophy of the attack is to understand what is an attack and develop tactics, both individually and collectively against them. The attack comes entirely (so far) in the form of Dialectics. To understand dialectics, watch and read everything you can by Maj. (Ret.) Stephen Coughlin.
Here is a repost of the simplest explanation, or at least the shortest one, we have been able to think of so far (Placed here by request)
We as humans communicate mostly via conventions. In other words, we decide what a word means by what we, as a culture want it to mean, then fix the term as a convention via a dictionary
or other means so we can express what we want to each other and be understood. It’s a group process more or less but based on what we want expressions, words, concepts and taxonomy to mean.
Dialectics is the imposition of meaning on existing terms for a political outcome which is destructive to what we all consider meaning. It is a complete hijacking of Meaning.
This also applies to taxonomy. The most underrated aspect of epistemology. Of how we see ourselves. Of how we understand the world, via categories. Via labels.
Dialectical taxonomy is what forces us to change everything we think about sexuality and accept political sexuality such as the Trans-movement.
Or somehow convincing everyone that the German National Socialist Worker’s Party is somehow “far right wing”, which may be the most masterful dialectical con of the 20th century.
This deserves a proper essay. But I just want to get the thought out there.
Imposing, forcing meaning on us. Changing terms to mean what a group of tyrants what us to think they mean as opposed to what they do mean and more or less always have meant.
Making words mean something other than what we meant them to mean, then banning or criminalizing them because of their imputed meaning, even though they were good, useful terms that helped hold our culture together.
Attacking us for using perfectly good words with important meanings, then telling us what we meant by what we said, then cancelling us for it in the pre-revolutionary stage, and now in the UK outright arrest you now that the revolution is all but complete.
That is dialectics.
Amit Segal:
HISTORY IN THE MAKING?
Forty-four years ago, as Israeli forces drove deep into Lebanon, U.S. special envoy Philip Habib arrived determined to take Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to task. Habib—who made little secret of his contempt for Sharon—believed he held the upper hand and pressed the case that Israel pull back and stop bending Lebanon’s fragile government toward Israel’s terms.
Sharon sat back and let the American diplomat run through his lecture. When Habib finished, Sharon reportedly produced a card of his own: a secret document, quietly drawn up with a confidant of the Lebanese leadership, already sketching the outline of an accord—normalization, security arrangements and a phased Israeli withdrawal that would leave Israel holding outposts on Lebanese soil.
Sharon had bypassed the U.S. mediators entirely, having quietly negotiated his own full-blown peace agreement directly with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel through a private emissary. Habib’s trip was pointless.
[Then Hezbollah murdered Gemayel, everything collapsed.]This time, the agreement went through Washington.
On Friday, Israel announced a framework agreement with Lebanon, its first accord with the country since the short-lived 1983 treaty. The two sides commit to formally end their state of war and pursue normal relations through later negotiations. The engine is a reciprocal, sequenced process…
Two initial “pilot zones” are agreed, with the rest left to a forthcoming Security Annex. Lebanon affirms Israel’s right to exist and that only the Lebanese state may authorize force on its soil; Israel disclaims any territorial ambitions.
In short: Lebanon sublets its own territory to Israel so Israel can evict the problematic tenant, Hezbollah, and hands the keys back once the premises are cleared—with normalization as the reward at the end of the eviction…
Even if the ultimate goal of normalization goes unmet, this is a genuine achievement for Israel because it upends the entire conception that has governed Lebanon until now. The old arrangement was simple: If Israel wanted to stay, the authority it had to consult was Washington, while Hezbollah took its marching orders from Tehran. The Lebanese government, meanwhile, oscillated between the roles of Hezbollah cutout and impotent failed state.
Now the United States has pulled the Lebanese government itself into the anti-Iran camp. And unlike Israel’s first treaty with Lebanon, this one is built to require America as a partner…
https://newsletter.amitsegal.net/p/its-noon-in-israel-history-in-the
I read two Lebanese sources together – carefully – Tony Badran and David Daoud.
Tony is a Maronite Christian – a Phoenicianist – whose outlook on Lebanon is invariably cold and harsh. David is from an ancient Jewish Lebanese family, exiled in 1978. Though very much a realist, his analysis provides for occasional positive political observations. The two of them quote each other frequently and serve as references for both Lee Smith and J.E.Dyer.
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David Daoud @DavidADaoud Jun 27
Hezbollah’s default posture is to always be worried and to keep its base worried. That, therefore, shouldn’t be considered the exclusive measure of whether the framework agreement is good or bad.
The fact is, on its face, it’s a FINE DOCUMENT.
But, as legal instruments, so were the November 27, 2024 ceasefire agreements, Resolution 1701, and Resolution 1559.
Any one of those documents, had they been implemented, would have resulted in Hezbollah’s disarmament. But they failed, because of two things:
1) they depended upon Lebanese enforcement. All of Hezbollah’s behaviors and words now are trying to preempt, deter, and prevent Lebanese enforcement — not necessarily because, as this deal’s proponents allege, Lebanon is now ready to disarm Hezbollah. But because that’s what Hezbollah has always done.
2) Global, but particularly, American follow-through. And I don’t mean this in the Lebanese activist “the US hasn’t done enough” sense. I mean the United States hasn’t been willing to consistently use effective levers of pressure against the Lebanese State/LAF to get them to act against Hezbollah, and to respond with punitive measures in the case they didn’t. Our attention span when it comes to Lebanon has always been short and it’s always deferred to Lebanon’s “special circumstances.”
So whether this deal will work or not will not depend on its text. It won’t depend on Hezbollah’s apparent anxiety. It will depend on Lebanese endorsement and proper American pressure to ensure Lebanese enforcement.
https://xcancel.com/DavidADaoud/status/2070873691689246899#m
Pakistani Daily On Commander Of The Lebanese Armed Forces Rudolphe Haykal’s Visit To Islamabad: Pakistan, Iran, And Lebanon ‘Are Beginning To Appear As Mutual Supporters Of One Another’s Defense, And… Could Further Strengthen An Alliance Opposed To Israel’
June 26, 2026
“By helping Iran take a firm stance in opposition to Israel, Pakistan has not only played a fundamental role in preventing a nearly certain war from breaking out among Muslim countries but has also played a historic role on the diplomatic front by further highlighting the existing gap between the United States and Israel,” wrote Roznama Islam, an Urdu-language Pakistani daily as General Rodolphe Haykal, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, visited the army headquarters in Rawalpindi on June 9, 2026.
Rawalpindi is the twin city of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. At the Pakistan army headquarters, General Haykal held a meeting with Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal General Asim Munir, the de facto ruler of Pakistan, the first nuclear power in the Islamic world.
Although the details of the meeting are not in the public domain, Roznama Islam wrote in an editorial: “Pakistan, Iran, and Lebanon are beginning to appear as mutual supporters of one another’s defense, and potentially these three countries could further strengthen an alliance opposed to Israel. Pakistan is already a party to a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia, and there are also reports circulating about the inclusion of Turkey in this arrangement.”
https://www.memri.org/reports/pakistani-daily-commander-lebanese-armed-forces-rudolphe-haykals-visit-islamabad-pakistan