Zuhdi Shubeitah
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Briefs and Interpretations

The article examines the internet acronym LOL both as 'Laugh Out Loud' and as a political metaphor ('Lie Or Lose'), arguing that some politicians use deception to shape public opinion and regional policies, with examples including Tony Blair and the Iraq war.

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Zuhdi ShubeitahBanking executive (former)
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6-11-2018

-        James Cusick wrote on 17-12-2015 an article in the Independent under the Voices column stating that the meaning of the internet acronym LOL ... (lol) for some Western politicians such as Tony Blair ... is Lie Or Lose, where they adopt this concept ...and that means that lying before the public in politics is necessary for continued political life.. because the public in most cases does not like the truth, and these politicians speak in their speeches and tweets to the public what those publics want to hear!!!...and not the facts of the matter.!!!..and conversely, when one tells the truth..and does not lie...one thereby loses those publics... and this is what happened in the justification of Britain's participation in the Iraq war..with the United States of America..when they occupied Iraq on the pretext that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction..which proved to be false and incorrect...and which led to the killing of hundreds of thousands and the besiegement and displacement of millions of them and the destruction of Iraq so that it will not regain its health for decades and Tony Blair ...despite his exit from politics in Britain he is still free..a consultant contractor ...a political adviser to many countries of the Middle East that possess abundant energy and money. He owns a chain of companies that work in political and security consulting contracts for some Middle Eastern countries. And the war on Yemen and its destruction and the killing and displacement of its people, is one example of Blair's consultancies...in return for large sums of commissions and fees...!! Some American politicians' lying to the public, as the writer says, meant distorting the facts, exaggeration ....deception, misinterpretation, presenting half-truths...or adopting grandstanding over correct facts..

-        As for the internet term itself... LOL (lol) it is usually used by people through social communication means in their interactions...on the basis of...merriment..!! and optimism..and laughing out loud.....by way of the first letters of the words Laugh Out Loud

-        The speakers and players of political lol... worked and are currently working in the Middle East...to manufacture terrorism and create enmity among its states and to destroy many of them....and to spread terror among these states by creating a continuous threat from states they falsely classify as terrorist ...and sow the seeds of discord among them...and build ideas and theories and deals based on illusions and lies for Israel... and by this political lying they create a continued need for these states to buy weapons and keep military bases in them for fear of long arms from some countries of the region they invented and classified as existing....and they scattered all the resources of the region in exchange for ..consolidating Israel's existence and superiority...and bringing it in..as an ally rather than as an enemy...in the Middle East.....and burying the Palestinian cause...and pushing back the progress of states and their economic development..and focusing on military..spending..and continuously threatening global and regional peace..

-        The American political lol... opposes the environment..it withdrew from its global agreements...and polluted this environment by manufacturing terrorism and waging wars and fueling conflicts...and it cooperates with the Arab lol in the region. Some of its rulers enjoy lying to their peoples, uniquely with historical roots...where the truth revealed that the Palestinian cause is not a central issue ...and does not have priority on their agendas.!! and they do not speak about it with foreign politicians, especially the major powers...and they were certainly not speaking....but all the talk throughout the hundred years...about supporting the Arab Palestinian people and about the holy places was nonsense! ...and a belittling of the Arab peoples..!!..where the features of forming a military alliance began — the Arab NATO — under the supervision of a judicial guardian who is Israel....!!

-        We pray to God to increase the use of the peoples' lol....the kind, smiling, laughing one!!!..and which if it lies... it lies a white lie..!!..with no side effects!!!....and keep us away from the evils of the lol ...of the black lie...the malignant ember belonging to some politicians....here and there!!

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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Briefs and Interpretations” (English translation of «مختصرات ...وتفسيرا ت», originally published 20 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/briefs-and-interpretations

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