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Rights group to prosecute Labour's Starmer for complicity in Israel's war crimes in Gaza

International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has today issued UK Labour leader Keir Starmer, Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales Emily Thornberry and Shadow Defence Secretary David Lammy with a notice of intention to prosecute UK politicians for their role in aiding and abetting Israel’s perpetration of war crimes.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231016-rights-group-to-prosecute-labours-starmer-for-complicity-in-israels-war-crimes-in-gaza/

I’m so fucking sick of this stupid bullshit media game of “oh diplomats are trying to negotiate to get aid in” “blinken meets with president fuckface discussing humanitarian aid corridor” fuck ALL THAT SHIT. They’re dying and need it FUCKING NOW. Stop doing all this stupid diplomatic procedural bullshit to make it seem like you care because obviously you FUCKING DON’T because if you cared that people were drinking fucking ocean water and almost dying of dehydration you would actually display some fucking sense of urgency to the public it’s all a fucking smokescreen to cover your asses.

Eat shit and die

Biden's started his speech. I can't believe the dems actually expect people will vote for this reanimated yet still tired, old corpse.

Al-Arabiya: Israel gives Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza one hour to evacuate it

news is trying to Orwell the missle strike on the hospital into a memory hole by deliberately using "blast" instead of strike, attack, deliberate or any wording that hints Israel did it.

It's so fucking obvious seeing them all in lock step be stooges and complicit this genocide.

Reports that hamas managed to pull off some sort of kidnapping operation. They are still doing infantry actions outside gaza.

Now seeing people claiming that the hospital was never attacked and those people weren't killed.

Not even a "the hospital just did that" but "the hospital isn't even damaged".

Rybar saying that lot of the attacks/strikes happening in Iraq and Syria are just for show:

While the global community speculates about when the IDF ground operation in Gaza Strip will begin, in Iraq and Syria, the parties involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are busy creating the illusion of an ongoing struggle between them.

This morning, the Israeli Air Force once again targeted the airports in Damascus and Aleppo in Syria, which they had previously attacked last week. The bombings damaged the newly reconstructed runways, resulting in flight delays and cancellations.

Essentially, these airstrikes are similar to the shelling of American bases by pro-Iranian groups: while some attempt to demonstrate their unwavering commitment to the war against the "Zionist occupiers," the latter are determined to confront the "Axis of Resistance" on distant battlefields.

What these attacks have in common is that they do not cause significant damage. The strikes on Syrian airports are unlikely to seriously disrupt the logistics of Iran or Hezbollah, especially considering the amount of cargo that regularly passes through the Al Bukamal border crossing on the Iraqi border.

Despite the loud slogans and mutual threats, neither side has escalated the situation thus far, limiting themselves to mere displays of action. This arrangement proves to be quite convenient: it allows for the selling of a dramatic image of all-out war with the enemy to the public, without actually engaging in it.

How has the media of settler-colonial societies been covering occupation and resistance? I know that the native American genocides were covered mostly as "brutal savages slaughtering le innocent civilian white settlers who just wants to bring civilisation to the blighted wasteland". How did media sympathetic to Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa or even Nazi Germany (although they never really got to the settler phase before having their assess kicked) talk about resistance?

Yet another Merkava hit by an ATGM with no trophy system firing. At this point I genuinely don't believe the trophy system exists.

https://streamable.com/080qqa

Biden: "Just as in World War 2, today, patriotic American workers are building the arsenal of Democracy."

https://streamable.com/baf2ln

Does anyone have the rest of this speech?

Lmao, it gets even funnier

House Democratic Lawmaker Floats George W. Bush For Speaker Of The House

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanylewis/2023/10/16/house-democratic-lawmaker-floats-george-w-bush-for-speaker-of-the-house

"He could come back,” Sherman said. “Obviously, I’m not a real fan of how the Iraq War went, but I would think that any reasonable Republican would be somebody that Democrats could work with

🔴 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

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Today, Tuesday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounces any Arab or Palestinian participation in meetings with the American war criminal Joe Biden, the main driver of the war of genocide against our steadfast people in the Gaza Strip.

The blood of the innocent martyrs in the [Al-Ahli Arab] Al-Maamadani Hospital massacre committed by the zionist enemy drips from the hands of the American war criminal Joe Biden and his zionist allies.

The decision to bomb the hospital was issued by the same zionist war room in which the criminal Joe Biden was present today during his visit to his war criminal allies.

These massacres, which exceeded any other, were the result of the inherent racist criminal tendencies of the leaders of the zionist entity and their allies in the American administration and the leadership of the European Union.

The minimum respect for Arab dignity and identity is for Arab officials to adopt a unified stance by withdrawing from the summit of shame with Biden, the killer of children, women, and the elderly; to boycott the American administration; to expel its military bases; and to close its embassies in the region. This must of course be preceded by a complete closure of the embassies of the state of aggression and zionist war crimes.

The Front calls on the masses of our people in the West Bank, Al-Quds, and the territories of 1948 to move and ignite a comprehensive intifada in the face of this criminal enemy and the herds of its settlers who are committing massacres against our people and our people in the Gaza Strip.

The Front also calls on the Arab masses to besiege the American embassies, the embassies of the European Union countries and the zionist entity, and their representative offices in all Arab capitals. It also addresses the same call to the forces around the world in solidarity with our people, to escalate actions and struggles against the aggression and against the embassies of the zionist entity, the American administration, and the European powers that are partners in this aggression.

This is the battle of Palestinian existence, Arab existence, and dignity. Half-hearted positions in it cannot be accepted. Our people will remain steadfast, proud, and tall, defending their land and their rights, the dignity of the Arab nation and the essence of its existence.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

i've seen zionists claim that if Israel didn't have the Iron Dome, similar things will happen there. 'Israel' is bankrolled by a superpower while Gaza is under near complete control of 'Israel'. Most Hamas rockets which get through the Iron Dome barely cause any damage to the buildings.

vs

Settlers will spend years blowing the limbs off of peaceful protesters with sniper rifles and turning apartments full of children into rubble while the world ignores it. When there's retaliation, the whole world starts crying about how terrorism () is wrong and bad and counterproductive and how this isn't the way for Palestinians to be heard () and if they were just PEACEFUL (implication that Arabs are not capable of peace without the guiding cracker hand) then people would listen.

Well, if terrorism isn't effective, why are so many illegal settlers running scared back to ? Why are results being achieved now that were never even a remote possibility with peaceful protests? Perhaps if they don't want to be opposed violently, settlers shouldn't violently suppress their victims until every option but terrorism has been eliminated.

The worst argument is the "look at all the Palestinians dying (who would otherwise be fine) because of Hamas" argument. You have to lack the capacity for object permanence to believe this, or have never even heard of the state of Israel before. Either way, shut the fuck up.

Trouble in paradise?

lemmy.world/c/worldnews is under new management

Old moderators were removed and new moderators are from /c/politics.

didn't israel bomb a children's hospital with white phosphorus like a few days ago https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjw_57ouv6BAxUgJEQIHdImAooQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftass.com%2Fworld%2F1690449&usg=AOvVaw2EU1sYKwxJgnnKC_kcOQZz&opi=89978449

Hezbollah says it has attacked Israeli border posts

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says its fighters have targeted five Israeli posts along the border in the country’s south. Hezbollah said in a terse statement that various types of “direct weapons” were used in the late Monday afternoon attack. Hezbollah fighters have been destroying surveillance cameras placed on Israeli posts along the border amid heightening tensions.

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-38ed-d156-abaf-b8fd740b0000

Recently, the news that the DPRK 🇰🇵 started to supply ammunition to the Russian army has become public.

Here are the first ever images of what was supplied: 122mm and 152mm HE-FRAG projectiles, which are already being issued to Russian artillerymen.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1715421360644600064

"Israel has a right to defend itself" was a get out of jail free card for politicians for decades and it's kind of funny to watch that stop working in real time.

Nitter

https://streamable.com/rqzd9c

At a pro-Palestine protest outside the Israeli consultate in Toronto on Oct. 18, protesters shut down the road and participated in a mass Islamic street prayer.

Chud source. I wanna include this though because it's cool as fuck. Chuds are using it for racist purposes to try and drive the right against palestine but I really fucking feel something when I see mass street prayers like this, it's a strong spectacle.

Fuck, Israel's gaslighting is ridiculous.

Zuckerberg is a vile fucker.

Facebook and Instagram users say their pro-Palestinian posts have been suppressed.

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said last week that it would enact temporary measures to push down extreme or graphic imagery coming out of Israel and Gaza. In doing so, thousands of Palestinian supporters now say that their posts have been suppressed or removed from Facebook and Instagram, even if the messages do not break the company’s rules.

In particular, messages of support for Palestinian civilians, many of whom have been displaced, injured or killed by Israeli airstrikes, are being removed from the platforms, users said. Some people have also reported that Facebook suppressed accounts that called for peaceful protests in cities around the United States, including planned sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-war-facebook-instagram.html?smid=url-share

Israeli media: Israel faces an additional threat after the Houthis announced a comprehensive jihadist mobilization and their intention to participate in the fighting in Israel/Palestine.

Greta Thunberg arrested at london oil protest

https://streamable.com/km6e7q

Give Greta a gun 👏

I wonder how many of the Biden staffers are resigning because they know Israel hit the hospital

We really need a list for all the people who've shown their depraved asses over this genocide

Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes hit airports in Damascus and Aleppo

Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes early Sunday targeted the international airports of the Syrian capital Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, killing one person. The runways were damaged and put out of service.

The attack is the second this month on the Damascus International airport and the third on Aleppo’s airport as tensions increase in the Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war.

Syrian state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying the airports were struck by the Israeli military from the Mediterranean to the west and from Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the south. It said one employee was killed and another wounded in Damascus in addition to material damage.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

Since the war between Israel and Hamas started on Oct. 7, Israel has carried out several strikes in Syria including one on the Damascus airport and two on Aleppo’s airport putting them out of service.

Flights were directed in the past to an international airport in the coastal province of Latakia.

Israel has targeted airports and sea ports in the government-held parts of Syria in an apparent attempt to prevent arms shipments from Iran to militant groups backed by Tehran, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters from around the region joined Syria’s 12-year conflict helping tip the balance in favor of President Bashar Assad’s forces.

Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.

https://apnews.com/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-10-21-23#0000018b-55ff-d08c-a9ff-dfff45770000

Antisemites 🤝 Zionists

Thinking Joe Biden is an honorary Jew

joe biden is a rabid dog that must be beaten to death with a stick

Another video of an Israeli influencer making fun out of Palestinian / Arab women living through bombing and getting ready (with excessive makeup). She’s getting ready with debris covered products, and there’s ‘explosions’ at the end. What sort of sadist racism is this?

The desperate pantomime of a fascist movement circling the drain, these people have turned themselves into soulless monstrosities for the sake of a decrepit empire led by a zombie who thinks it's 1973

A society of death worshipers will always implode

I wonder when the first major state will jump ship. The unwavering Israel support is a PR disaster.

My local newspaper has been completely uncritical of Israel so far, but even they can't bring themselves to say that it was Hamas who bombed the hospital, they just say "both sides are blaming each other". They're trying to pull some kind of "Islamic terrorism is back" narrative to fuel the anti-Hamas train, but it's not really sticking.

To most uninformed people, the optics were that Hamas pulled a mean sucker punch and Israel was fighting back, but now they just see Israel hitting Palestine over and over and over and over and over and over. Joe Brandon's reaction of "Okay guys, enough now, let's not go too far" encapsulates that pretty well. There aren't many more solid-sounding defense narratives anymore for Israel, I see a lot of "Well the numbers of dead Palestinians are from the health ministry which is controlled by Hamas", I saw some "A ceasefire would mean the normalization of antisemitic violence" and the obligatory "A lot of Palestinian civilians were killed by Hamas, actually". All of these are really, really bad defenses, I can't stress enough how much weaker these are than any pro-Ukraine narratives. It doesn't help that Israel is doing dumb shit like beefing with Gigi Hadid on Instagram and making an absolute mockery of themselves.

The longer this goes on, the more time passes since the attack on Israel, the steeper the uphill battle becomes that the propaganda has to fight and they're already losing.

Nytimes has already changed the headline from “Israeli strike hits hospital” to “Israeli strike hits hospital Palestinians say” next is gonna be “500 dead at Gaza hospital in apparent explosion”

Incredible that there's a random Muslim extremist killing in Belgium in the midst of brazenly authoritarian crackdowns on free speech. The same country where the US Operation Gladio (allegedly) executed the Brabant murders with the nearly identical motive of trying to quash civil disobedience and instill fear in the population.

https://streamable.com/ipicub

Palestinian Civil Defense rescues a Christian woman with special needs from the rubble following an Israeli strike targeting Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Gaza.

Channel 4 continues to do actual journalism

Although he’s inevitably a lib, their former main anchor Jon Snow did some good things in the past that annoyed the gammons

Edit: relevant bits as I can’t figure out Wikipedia deep linking:

In June 2017, it was reported that Snow had shouted "fuck the Tories" at Glastonbury. He was criticised for his views on air by a guest on Channel 4 News, Conservative minister Grant Shapps later refused to appear on the show, doubting its neutrality. Shapps stated: "I don’t think he [Jon Snow] can deal in an even handed manner in any interview with a Conservative MP. He has lost all credibility."

And

In March 2019, while reporting at a pro-Brexit protest, Snow said that he had "never seen so many white people in one place". Media regulator Ofcom received 2,644 complaints about Snow's comment

Imagine being a professional athlete and standing for the national anthem today, with the knowledge that the country you’re representing is supporting genocide

Top story right now on CNN’s website is about how they have done a big “CNN Investigates” on the Gaza hospital. And of course, their in-depth, independent analysis shows that the explosion was due to a rocket from Gaza. Afaik their “in-depth analysis” just consists of talking to former US military officers and RAND Corp freaks.

I haven’t really been following this stuff all that closely, so I don’t know how to debunk what they’re saying but FYI western media is doubling down on it NOT being the Israelis after Al-Jazeera explained how it was them.

Edit: again, I’m not really good on all this OSINT stuff but it seems like their “analysis” is just regurgitating stuff we heard like 3 days ago. Smol crater, that doesn’t sound like a JDAM, etc. Early in the article they seem to say it was a rocket that blew up mid flight and the debris lit cars on fire (ok….). Then they talk about that scorch pattern or whatever that CLEARLY shows it came from the northeast. Except they say “well a rocket from the SW would have burned up the ground on approach, causing that pattern, or something falling wouldn’t have left anything like that”… completely contradicting their falling schrapnel theory.

United States of America vetoed the Brazilian resolution of the UN Security Council to cancel Israel's evacuation orders for Palestinian residents of Gaza to the south.

Total:

— 🗳✅ 12 votes in favor

— 🗳❌1 Against (USA)

— 🗳🤷‍♂️ 2 Abstentions (UK and Russia)

Someone get me the fuck away from r/worldnews. How do these people get like this? Why do they get so much smug fucking satisfaction from it?

Protests reported near NATO base in Turkey’s Malatya We are getting reports of angry protesters massing near a NATO facility in Turkey’s Malatya province, where US servicemen are believed to be also stationed.

Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that the demonstrators gathered outside Kurecik Radar Station to denounce the deadly air strike on a hospital in Gaza, which Palestinian authorities blame on Israel.

A video clip posted by Al Jazeera Arabic on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, showed demonstrators waving Palestinian flags and shouting pro-Palestinian slogans, as Turkish police stood behind guardrails to protect the NATO facility.