Trump has allowed them to play him for weeks, because he still foolishly sees things through the prism of business, where he can just negotiate “deals.” But there is no negotiating with monsters like this.
In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who… pic.twitter.com/KTwBrwKbJG
— Rawan Osman روان عثمان (@RawaneOsmane) May 25, 2026
I guess that the question is what the basis of its economy will be. It could certainly do pineapples, coffee, and (if we were to end our own domestic restrictions) sugar, rum and cigars. But it could also become another tropical tourism mecca, with all its beaches. But they’d have to figure out how to avoid the tyranny of another Batista.
Hamas captured documents show they believed they could destroy Israel with their October 7th attack, sought more Iran, Hezzbollah, others. But Israel was not destroyed and all the terrorists with their big plans are dead, their organizations decimated, dismantled, or greatly… pic.twitter.com/vnYtVBAVOb