{"id":12413,"date":"2025-08-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2025\/08\/29\/ghadi-francis-fires-back-at-tom-barrack-you-are-animalistic-not-lebanese-journalists\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:07:43","slug":"ghadi-francis-fires-back-at-tom-barrack-you-are-animalistic-not-lebanese-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2025\/08\/29\/ghadi-francis-fires-back-at-tom-barrack-you-are-animalistic-not-lebanese-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghadi Francis Fires Back at Tom Barrack: \u201cYou Are Animalistic \u2014 Not Lebanese Journalists\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DN7E6TrE1Ll\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DN7E6TrE1Ll\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">\u201cDear U.S.A., replace that animalistic Thomas Barrack!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Ghadi Francis calls out the sham of U.S. \u201cdiplomacy\u201d \u2014 exposing the arrogance and dehumanization of the press by Barrack, who dared to call journalists animals.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of billionaires and diplomats silencing truth. The world is watching, and we are DONE with their lies.<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU @ghadifrancis <\/p>\n<p>#ThomasBarrack #GhadiFrancis #FreePress #MediaFreedom #ExposeThePower #RageAgainstCorruption #AccountabilityNow<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nGhadi Francis: Asking me to speak up against the American envoy, Tom barrack. I feel so sorry for the United States of America for having such diplomats. I mean, there was a time when your diplomats knew better or spoke better. I can&#8217;t even imagine this person who has been tried in the United States of America trying to become a diplomat. He&#8217;s a diplomat wannabe. Coming and insulting the whole region. He&#8217;s telling us we need to act kind and civilized. Tom, animalistic and uncivilized is Jeffrey Epstein, your buddy, your best friend. We don&#8217;t know how much you have been involved with him, and with a child molestation mafia that he had. Animalistic is invading Iraq and killing over a million people for nothing. Animalistic is staying in Afghanistan and killing the Afghani people for over a decade, and then handing it to the Taliban. Animalistic is your ally in Syria, the one that bombs mosques and churches and slaughters people. Animalistic is what you&#8217;ve done to Libya. Animalistic is what you&#8217;ve done to the whole region. Animalistic is the genocidal regime you protect in Occupied Palestine that kills journalists on cam for a sport, that starves children on cam in live real time coverage, and you have the audacity to come and tell us to act civilized? This is where civilization started. You have been trying for so hard to become a Lebanese, to claim a Lebanese identity because you have no civilization. And if you tell yourself you&#8217;re a Lebanese, you might get a chance at being civilized. You come and you say this to the press inside the presidential palace. This while you go with your ally, the Israelis, who kill journalists for a sport, trying to protect them furthermore, without even getting us any concessions while our land is occupied, while our skies every day they&#8217;re being breached. The ceasefire deal that you harbored in Lebanon is just a joke. Your mediation is just a joke. You couldn&#8217;t even free any Lebanese prisoner, any Lebanese civilian. You couldn&#8217;t even get any concession from the genocidal occupation in Israel, from the people who were tried by the ICC for war crimes. And you have the audacity to come and say and defend Israel from the Lebanese podiums and to even talk to Lebanese journalists like that. Animalistic is you and the administration that sends envoys like you. If you remember what happened in the 80s in Lebanon, there was one language to be spoken to the Americans in Lebanon. And if you continue to send Barbies and condescending pigs, this is what you&#8217;re going to get from Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon) \u201cDear U.S.A., replace that animalistic Thomas Barrack!\u201d Journalist Ghadi Francis calls out the sham of U.S. \u201cdiplomacy\u201d \u2014&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,37,33,1],"tags":[3353],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daizy-gedeon","8":"category-israel-hamas-war","9":"category-israel-hamas-war-live-updates","10":"category-middle-east-news","11":"category-uncategorized","12":"tag----en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}