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Shibley Telhami

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Shibley Telhami

@ShibleyTelhami

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

Joined October 2012

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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Nov 10, 2024
His arrogance, moral blind spots, decades of accumulated baggage, and cognitive decline – have combined to make a lethal combination, predictably enabling immense suffering of millions, hurting US interests and values, weakening his party, and aiding the return of Donald Trump.
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Oct 3, 2024
“President Biden and Vice President Harris, we are 99 American physicians and nurses who have witnessed crimes beyond comprehension. Crimes that we cannot believe you wish to continue supporting”
Biden Gets Stunning Letter on Gaza Cease-Fire
From newrepublic.com
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Nov 27, 2021
Israeli officials finally tell truth about Trump's Iran policy: 'it was all a big lie... the overall strategy... ended in failure. Iran was closer to nuclear military capability on day he left office than it was when he first entered the WH'
Three years late, Israelis finally hear the truth about Trump
From haaretz.com
Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Feb 17, 2024
Senior Pakistan official admits election rigging as protests grip country: "Chatta said there was so much “pressure” on him that he contemplated suicide, but that he then decided to make a public confession."
Senior Pakistan official admits election rigging as protests grip country
From theguardian.com
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Nov 16, 2023
Those of us shocked by Biden’s Gaza stance are asking who this man really is. Still not sure, but article in @theintercept led me to a 2020 @TimesofIsrael article on former Israeli PM Begin being surprised by Biden’s openness to inflicting civilian casualties in Lebanon in 1982:
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Aug 19, 2021
Trump’s former national security adviser, H.R. McMaster: “Our secretary of state [Mike Pompeo] signed a surrender agreement with Taliban. This collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. The Taliban didn’t defeat us. We defeated ourselves.”
Analysis | Trump officials scramble for distance from his Taliban deal
From washingtonpost.com
Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Feb 10, 2024
“50% of Biden 2020 voters say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinian civilians.”
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Apr 7, 2017
Within days, Trump's strike will look more and more ineffective, forcing a decision: escalate or live with perception of failure
Reuters
@Reuters
Apr 7, 2017
JUST IN: Syrian warplanes take off from air base hit by U.S., carry out strikes in Homs countryside - Syrian observatory for human rights
Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Dec 6, 2023
"Eighty-two percent of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98 percent), said that they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Just over 81 percent of those self-censoring said they primarily held back
Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Dec 6, 2023
"Scholars Who Study the Middle East Are Afraid to Speak Out: Polling data indicate widespread self-censorship." chronicle.com/article/schola…
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Jul 31, 2025
It's much worse than a "diplomatic collapse." For a new generation of people all around the world, Israel is now a genocidal state. It's not simply a moment of a disapproving opinion; It's the birth of new generational paradigm that won't be overcome by better diplomacy.
Barak Ravid
@BarakRavid
Jul 30, 2025
Under the current Netanyahu government Israel is suffering the biggest diplomatic collapse since 1948
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Aug 24, 2019
Awful: AMIDEAST, which places Palestinian students in US colleges shared this: Last night, a new Hope Fund scholar arrived at Logan Airport with valid visa, to be a freshman at Harvard. He grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. He was refused entry and put on next plane out.
Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Dec 13, 2023
"Israeli soldiers rummaging through private homes in Gaza. Forces destroying plastic figurines in a toy store, or trying to burn food and water supplies in the back of an abandoned truck. Troops with their arms slung around each other, chanting racist slogans as they dance in a
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Mar 11, 2023
"In 2006, Carter published his now-famous book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. I was troubled... I led 15 members of the Board of [the Carter Center] to resign... But in the intervening years, I realized that he was likely right."
I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
From forward.com
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Shibley Telhami
@ShibleyTelhami
Apr 9, 2025
Evidence is piling up: Pew poll finds that more than half of U.S. adults, 53%, including 69% of Democrats, now express an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 42% in March 2022.
How Americans view Israel and the Israel-Hamas war at the start of Trump’s second term
From pewresearch.org
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